Links of the Week - 23 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Donald Trump’s response to Comey shows how he weaponizes bullshit
Ezra Klein

What Trump Doesn’t Know Will Hurt Us
Fred Kaplan

Watching the Detectives
Katrina Gulliver

A tweet from Trump’s legal team shows he doesn’t understand what being president is about
Matthew Yglesias

We’re Not Even In Kansas Anymore
Paul Krugman

This profile of Trump's budget director has an unintentionally revealing anecdote
Tara Golshan

Trump friend: He’s thinking about firing Robert Mueller
Andrew Prokop

Sessions Needs to Talk
William Saletan

The problem with privatization
Larry Summers

Russia’s Power Trip
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 16 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Donald Trump is exploiting the fatal flaw of the two-party system
Lee Drutman

Has anyone told Donald Trump that he runs the government?
Ezra Klein

Like expensive bank bailouts? You’ll love Republicans’ Financial CHOICE Act.
Jonah Crane

Trump Can Commit All the High Crimes He Wants. Republicans Aren’t Going to Impeach Him.
Jonathan Chait

Donald Trump’s presidency is an American crisis
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 9 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure
Noah Smith

Chaos Theory
Isaac Chotiner

Collusion Is Cool
William Saletan

Americans Sure Seem to Like Universal Health Care
Noah Smith

Will Republicans impeach Trump?
Lee Drutman

Paying Inmates Minimum Wages Helps the Working Class
Noah Smith

Donald Trump and the 3 “drain the swamp” fever dreams of American politics
Lee Drutman

Why Do They Hate Her?
Joshua Zeitz

The mystery of the 2016 election was its normalcy
Ezra Klein

It's Smart to Worry About ETFs
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 2 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

A Budget Warning
Larry Summers

The 6 million people the White House believes can balance its budget
Ana Swanson

Forcing out unwanted FBI directors: a brief, messy history
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Why Republicans can't fix health insurance
Matthew Yglesias

The Health Care Debate Is About Money
Michael Grunwald

JFK’s Russian Conspiracy
Tim Naftali

General McMaster, Step Down—and Let Trump Be Trump
Thomas Ricks

The Bullshitter-in-Chief
Matthew Yglesias

Making Enemies Out of Friends
Fred Kaplan

Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
The Ezra Klein Show