Links of the Week - 30 December 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Cities Are Cutting Public Transportation Because They Think Uber Will Fill the Gap. They’ll Regret It.
Henry Grabar

North Carolina’s GOP Is Closing Ranks
Jamelle Bouie

Larry Kudlow is usually wrong
Jared Bernstein

Why David Brock’s plan to create a “Breitbart of the left” is destined to fail
Nicole Hemmer

The GOP coup in North Carolina previews what we’re going to see everywhere
Paul Waldman

The Only Enemies Donald Trump Can See Are His Fellow Americans
William Saletan

This Time, Obama's Calm in a Crisis Isn't Helping
Michelle Goldberg

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending..."
The Ezra Klein Show

Election surprises and exchange rates
The FRED Blog

Why we should be terrified of Donald Trump’s decision-making process
Paul Waldman

Links of the Week - 23 December 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

How the U.S. Could Respond to Russia’s Hacking
Fred Kaplan

The GOP’s Russia Hawks Are Not Your Friends, Democrats
Jim Newell

The real reason Trump's denial that Russia hacked Democrats’ emails is so worrying
Andrew Prokop

Russia Didn’t Hack the U.S. Election
Theodore R. Johnson

Trump’s Ungovernment
Jamelle Bouie

A woman who called Michelle Obama an ape has her job back. This is part of a pattern.
Jenée Desmond-Harris

What’s Good for Exxon Is Bad for the Country
Fred Kaplan

Thomas Schelling, Methodological Subversive
Rajiv Sethi

When to Send an Investing Model Into Retirement
Noah Smith

Price growth at the tails
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 16 December 2016

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Poor Gretchen on Fannie and Freddie
Bill McBride

What Trump Didn't Learn From the Financial Crisis
Noah Smith

A key Trump donor could make a ton of money from Trump's housing policy
Timothy B. Lee

Farewell Harry Reid, the Least Fashionable Man in Politics
Jim Newell

A Better Theory to Explain Financial Bubbles
Noah Smith

Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
Matthew Yglesias

How Will Trump React to the CIA’s Claim That Russia Was Trying to Help Him Win?
Fred Kaplan

How Trump Is Repeating the Mistakes of Iraq
William Saletan

Reince Priebus Is Either Lying or Delusional
Josephine Wolff

When Daily Intelligence Briefings Prevented a Nuclear War
Josh Zeitz

Links of the Week - 9 December 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won
Ezra Klein

Fidel Castro, Master Madman
Michael Dobbs

An American “Redemption”? Trumpism fits a pattern of backlash against social progress

Bradley Proctor

How the electoral college gerrymanders the presidential vote
Christopher Ingraham

Republicans allowed voter paranoia to flourish. They got a president-elect who embraces it.
Dara Lind

Just How Badly Can the Trump Administration Corrupt the United States?
Ray Fisman & Miriam Golden

Everything mattered: lessons from 2016's bizarre presidential election
David Roberts

Mad Dog or Warrior Monk? Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Defense Doesn’t Fit Any Stereotypes.
Fred Kaplan

An econ theory, falsified
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 2 December 2016

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Winning an election does not entitle one to upend basic values
Larry Summers

Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways.
Baratunde Thurston

Obama reckons with a Trump presidency
David Remnick

The Bitter Feud Behind the Law That Could Keep Jared Kushner Out of the White House
Josh Zeitz

Infrastructure Build or Privatization Scam?
Paul Krugman

These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott

Democrats won the most votes in the election. They should act like it.
Ezra Klein

The Axe Files with David Axelrod: 98 - Larry Summers
David Axelrod

The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s.
Josh Zeitz

Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media
Charles Sykes