Links of the Week - 24 March 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

How American Politics Went Insane
Jonathan Rauch

The Prophet of Profit
Ray Fisman

Business Success Versus Government Success
Miriam Wasserman

Is a strong dollar good or bad? An answer for Donald Trump.
Matthew Yglesias

I asked 8 experts if we’re in a constitutional crisis. Here’s what they said.
Dylan Matthews

Gary Cohn and the Participation Rate
Bill McBride

This is what incompetence looks like
Paul Waldman

The cost of crisis: why stock fees rise when markets slip
Jason Wrobel

President Trump Has Done Almost Nothing
Zachary Karabell

Trump said he would hire the best people. Instead we got the Trump administration.
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump wants to know who's causing all these problems. It’s Donald Trump.
Dylan Matthews

I've been visiting Russia for 22 years. I've never seen Russians prouder than under Putin.
Lisa Dickey

Who Told Flynn to Call Russia?
Daniel Benjamin

Austerity was a bigger disaster than we thought
Matt O'Brien

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: working-class whites
Tracy Jan

Links of the Week - 17 March 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The case for Supreme Court term limits has never been stronger
Lee Drutman

Dashed Expectations Power White Anger
Noah Smith

The Axe Files with David Axelrod: 118 - Carl Bernstein
David Axelrod

The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds
Noah Smith

Bad Religion
William Saletan

The Last Time the U.S. Invaded Mexico
Joshua Zeitz

The Greatest, Saddest Super Bowl Ever
Josh Levin

Anatomy of a miracle: How the Patriots came back from the dead
Bill Barnwell

Two tales of federal debt : Why people disagree on the level of the federal debt
The FRED Blog

Is This Watergate?
Elizabeth Drew

Trump’s Apologist
William Saletan 

Checks? Never Heard of Them. Balances? Forget About It.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

We Are the 99 Percent

Josh Levin

How to Build an Autocracy

David Frum

The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'

Nick Spitzer

Links of the Week - 10 March 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The Perils of Calling Trump a Liar
David Greenberg

Trump starts from the premise that he's popular and then believes any theory that proves it
Dylan Matthews

Why the Texan Republican who represents the border doesn’t want a wall
Matthew Yglesias

The only thing that can stop Trump from turning Washington into a permanent Crazytown
Steven Pearlstein

Trump Supporters Refuse to Believe Their Own Eyes
Alan Levinovitz

What History Teaches Us About Trump's Immigration Order
Joshua Zeitz

Trump as the New Andrew Jackson? Not on Old Hickory’s Life
H.W. Brands

The Snake
Ezra Klein

The incompetence displayed by Trump's immigration orders will be terrifying in a crisis
Matthew Yglesias

Trump isn’t an evil genius
David Roberts

Links of the Week - 3 March 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

What It Means to Speak for the United States
Carl Woog

It's a lot harder to fight lies about invisible things
Alvin Chang

The Trump administration just told a whopper about the size of the federal workforce
Christopher Ingraham

Trump’s Dangerous View of the CIA
William Saletan

Trump Sold America a Miracle Cure
Alan Levinovitz

Donald Trump is about to find out you can’t run government like a business
Matthew Yglesias

Market Liquidity Is Great, Until It Isn't
Noah Smith

Time for Business Leaders To Wake Up
Larry Summers

Donald Trump’s Vote Fraud Investigation Will Finish What the GOP Started
Mark Joseph Stern

The best theory for why Trump tells such obvious lies
Matthew Yglesias