Links of the Week - 27 January 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Republicans: you have to pass our health care plan to find out what’s in it
Ezra Klein

Could an NFL Team Miss the Playoffs With a 13–3 Record?
Josh Levin

The WikiLeaks-Russia connection started way before the 2016 election
Zack Beauchamp

Julian Assange Is A Russian Front-Man, Not A Freedom Fighter
Tom Nichols

How Henry Kissinger Conspired Against a Sitting President
Zach Dorfman

Is Mike Flynn Behind Trump’s Scornful Treatment of the Intelligence Community?
Fred Kaplan

Sometimes It's Hard to Explain Market Failures
Noah Smith

Thoma: "Here's what really caused the housing crisis"
Bill McBride

America will miss Barack Obama's decency
Ezra Klein

Democrats should write their own “terrific” Obamacare replacement
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 20 January 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Manhattan could get by with 78% fewer cabs
Matt McFarland

Scenarios for the future of racial politics in America
Noah Smith

The 2018 midterms are nearly two years away. Start paying attention now.
Andrew Prokop

Why Trump Would Be Crazy to Give Putin What He Wants
Evelyn N. Farkas

Trump wants “federal help” to stop Chicago gun violence. He should consider federal gun control.
German Lopez

What the King of Hawaii Can Teach Us About Trump
Rob Goodman

Trump is siding with Julian Assange against the US intelligence community
Zack Beauchamp

Why Is Trump Siding With Assange Over the CIA?
Aki Peritz

America’s Abdication
Yascha Mounk

Will Donald Trump Be FDR or Jimmy Carter?
Reihan Salam

Links of the Week - 13 January 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Putin’s Way of War
Matt Tait

Analytics of Trade Deficits and Manufacturing Employment (Very Wonkish)
Paul Krugman

Tariffs and the Trade Balance (Wonkish)
Paul Krugman

Political scientist: North Carolina “can no longer be classified as a full democracy”
Dylan Matthews

Trump's Trade Chief Makes a Rookie Mistake
Noah Smith

Greed Springs Eternal
Paul Krugman

The Problem With Trump’s Admiration of General Patton
Arthur Allen

If We Knew What Things Cost, They Might Cost Less
Noah Smith

What the ‘Godfather of Populism’ Thinks of Donald Trump
Richard Linnett

Putin’s Real Long Game
Molly McKew

Links of the Week - 6 January 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

I’ve spent 15 years covering national security. I’ve never seen anything like the Russia hack.
Yochi Dreazen

The Most Useful Guide to Resisting Donald Trump
Jim Newell

Trump’s budget director has some awfully strange ideas about economic policy
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump’s new regulation czar is a conflict-of-interest disaster
Matthew Yglesias

9 questions about Russia you were too embarrassed to ask
Matthew Yglesias

The United States might be the next Argentina
Matt O'Brien

How James Comey and Loretta Lynch made Donald Trump the president of the United States
Paul Waldman

Partisanship is a helluva drug
Matthew Yglesias

What, Exactly, Is Trump Getting at With His Comments About Nukes and an Arms Race?
Fred Kaplan

How to use taxes to close the trade deficit
Matthew Yglesias