Links of the Week - 16 November 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The looming danger of non-banks
Felix Salmon

The White House, definitely not scared of socialism, issues report on why socialism is bad
Dylan Matthews

A White House report points out that Mao and I both like low health care costs. True, but…
Sarah Kliff

The hack gap: how and why conservative nonsense dominates American politics
Matthew Yglesias

After Fanning the Flames of Anti-Semitism, Trump Is Hiding Behind the Pro-Israel Defense
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 9 November 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Even janitors have noncompetes now. Nobody is safe.
Matt O'Brien

The biggest lie Trump tells is that he’s kept his promises
Matthew Yglesias

This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you
Alex Ward

Donald Trump’s Perverse Advantage
Frank Bruni

4 ways to fix "fake news"
Jim VandeHei

Links of the Week - 2 November 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Max Boot, Jackie Robinson, and the racism problem in the Republican Party
Jane Coaston

Proportional representation could save America
Matthew Yglesias

The rigging of American politics
Ezra Klein

Trump Says The Federal Reserve Is the “Biggest Threat” to His Presidency. So Why Hasn’t He Done Anything About It?
Jordan Weissmann

The Man Who Broke Politics
McKay Coppins

Links of the Week - 26 October 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


We Don’t Need to Replace the BQE, But We Will
Andrew Lynch

Why this political scientist thinks the Democrats have to fight dirty
David Faris and Sean Illing

It’s better to be born rich than gifted
Andrew Van Dam

Economic Growth, Technological Change, and Climate Change
Jonathan Wight

Why More Dictators Are Killing and Abducting Dissidents Abroad
Joshua Keating

Links of the Week - 19 October 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

'A Kind Of Vague Hostility': Michael Lewis On How Trump Loyalists Run Agencies
Michael Lewis

The “dollar auction” theory can help explain the Kavanaugh chaos
Lee Drutman

Brett Kavanaugh proves the Never Trump movement was a sham all along
Zack Beauchamp

It’s Time for Democrats to Play Hardball With the FBI
Matthew Miller

‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team 
Michael Lewis

Links of the Week - 12 October 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The GOP Is Clueless About Women. Here’s What the Party Needs to Learn.
Matt Latimer

Everything is going right for the Federal Reserve. It needs to change what it’s doing.
Matt O'Brien

How Salt Helped Win the Civil War
Anne Ewbank

Why It’s Time to Rename the Russell Office Building
Joshua Zeitz

Trump Said What About Kim Jong-un?
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 5 October 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Why Russians Keep Visiting Mariia Butina in Prison
Alex Finley

Kavanaugh and Trump are part of a larger crisis of elite accountability in America
Matthew Yglesias

Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s looming legitimacy crisis
Zack Beauchamp

A former spy explains why Manafort is crucial to Mueller’s Russia investigation
Alex Finley

Why US public transportation is so bad — and why Americans don’t care
Aditi Shrikant

Links of the Week - 28 September 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The 2008 crisis really did start off worse than the Great Depression
Matt O'Brien

Why God Is Laughing at Brett Kavanaugh
John F. Harris

Republicans can’t hold Kavanaugh or anyone else accountable — because Trump is president
Matthew Yglesias

No, I Will Not Debate You
Laurie Penny

The Kavanaugh assault allegations are a reminder that Democrats were smart to push Al Franken out
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 21 September 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The White House Tried to Take Credit for the Economy. It Wasn’t Very Convincing.
Jordan Weissmann

The financial crisis and the foundations for macroeconomics
Larry Summers

Special report: We're safer 10 years after financial crisis
Felix Salmon

The Great Recession's uneven recovery
Kim Hart

How the Great Recession fueled for-profit colleges
Stef W. Kight

Links of the Week - 14 September 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

In 1921, Canada developed a secret plan to invade the U.S.
Frank Jacobs

Republicans Were Mad at Twitter for Banning Alex Jones. Then They Met Him.
Will Oremus

A simple plan for saving the Supreme Court
Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman

Most jobs created since the recession have been low-paying
Steve LeVine & Naema Ahmed

Is the housing price-rent ratio a leading indicator?
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 7 September 2018

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We Already Know Trump Is Betraying His Country
William Saletan

Donald Trump talks like a mob boss — and reminds us he has no idea what he’s doing
Matthew Yglesias

The 1974 Playbook
Fred Kaplan

John McCain, who died at 81, explained
Matthew Yglesias

John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the rise of reality TV politics
Laura McGann

Links of the Week - 31 August 2018

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A few comments on the Labor Force Participation Rate
Bill McBride

Most international borders are surprisingly young
Frank Jacobs

The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we’ve failed to prosecute white-collar crime
Matthew Yglesias

The moral implications of luck
David Roberts

Donald Trump Was Too Incompetent to Pick a Fed Chair He Agreed With, and Now He’s Mad About It
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 24 August 2018

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Bitcoin is still a total disaster
Matt O'Brien

Has wage growth been slower than normal in the current business cycle?
The FRED Blog

“Socialism” vs. “capitalism” is a false dichotomy
 Will Wilkinson

Why so many people who need the government hate it
Sean Illing & Suzanne Mettler

What John Dean Has to Say About the NYT’s Blockbuster Don McGahn Story
Isaac Chotiner

Links of the Week - 17 August 2018

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Liberals Don’t Have to Defend Sarah Jeong’s Tweets
Yascha Mounk

Corporate profits versus labor income : Risk & reward versus slow & steady
The FRED Blog

Racism is a problem of white elites, and Kris Kobach proves it
Dylan Matthews

New York’s Uber Cap Is Good News for Basically Everyone
Henry Grabar

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade
New York magazine

Links of the Week - 10 August 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Why Trump Has Such a Soft Spot for Russia
Andrew Sullivan

Russian Intervention
William Saletan

American white people really hate being called “white people”
David Roberts

We’re Never Going to Get Our “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?” Moment
Rebecca Onion

New Report: Uber and Lyft Riders Aren’t Giving Up Their Cars—They’re Giving Up Transit
Henry Grabar

What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis
Noah Smith

Trump Might Cut Taxes Without Congress. It’s His Ultimate Heist for the Rich.
Jordan Weissmann

Amusing ourselves to Trump
Ezra Klein

The Cryptocurrency Game With a $9 Million Prize
Arvind Dilawar

How 2,000 year old roads predict modern-day prosperity
Christopher Ingraham

Links of the Week - 3 August 2018

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A simple analogy for understanding Trump’s Putin meeting
Zack Beauchamp

The “do what you want” theory of politics
Dylan Matthews

Accusing Trump of Treason Will Only Help Him
Fred Kaplan

Socialists Will Need to Be 10 Times Smarter Than Republicans to Get Taken Seriously in Washington
Jordan Weissmann

Donald Trump and the crisis of elite impunity
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 27 July 2018

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Trump’s administration is full of kooks and crooks because it’s led by Donald Trump
Matthew Yglesias

Europe’s Dependence on the U.S. Was All Part of the Plan
Claire Berlinski

Trump’s ‘populism’ is just a search for scapegoats
Matt O'Brien

What Robert Mueller Knows—and 9 Areas He'll Pursue Next
Garrett Graff

It’s Resignation Time
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 20 July 2018

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Hey Democrats, Fighting Fair Is for Suckers
Rob Goodman

Goldman Sachs Warns That Rising Wages Could Cut Into Corporate Profits. The Horror!
Jordan Weissmann

“Law and order” politics often undermines the rule of law
Amy Erica Smith

The Liberal Case for Kavanaugh Is Complete Crap
Jordan Weissmann

What Jonathan Chait Gets Right About Trump and Russia
Tom Nichols

Links of the Week - 13 July 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The Case for Incivility
Osita Nwanevu

How to fix the Supreme Court
Ezra Klein

It’s time for term limits for Supreme Court justices 
Lee Drutman

Mitch McConnell’s politics of shamelessness have won
Matthew Yglesias

Map identifies 1,700 public memorials to the Confederacy
Frank Jacobs

People are worried about these economic warning signs. They can relax. For now.
Andrew Van Dam

Court-packing, Democrats’ nuclear option for the Supreme Court, explained
Dylan Matthews

Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics
Matthew Yglesias

Roe Block
William Saletan

Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism
Eric Weinstein with Sean Illing

Links of the Week - 6 July 2018

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Trump’s Bizarre Tangent About Canadian Shoe Smugglers, Explained
Jordan Weissmann

Domino's Pizza Fixing Potholes Is an Ominous Sign
Noah Smith

For the last time: Trump inherited a good economy, and he hasn’t made it better
Matt O'Brien

Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility”
Zack Beauchamp

The Government Had No Intention of Reuniting Separated Families
Dahlia Lithwick

In MLK’s day, conservatives didn’t think he was so “civil”
Nicole Hemmer

After a ridiculous days-long bad-faith debate on civility, can the press manage to learn self-respect?
Matthew Yglesias

White People Are Cowards
Michael Harriot

Cowards and Traders
William Saletan

“Mad Dog” in the Doghouse
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 29 June 2018

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The Kim Con
William Saletan

Demolition Donald
Fred Kaplan

If FBI Staffers Had Texted Each Other About Stopping Hillary, Would Democrats Think There Was a Conspiracy Against Them?
Ben Mathis-Lilley

Maybe This One Dumb Chart Explains the Economy
Jordan Weissmann

Elizabeth Holmes Deserves Prison, but Her Indictment Won’t Make Silicon Valley Any Less Reckless
Felix Salmon

For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren’t just flat. They’re falling.
Jeff Stein

Trump’s Damning Doublespeak
William Saletan

To stop endless war, raise taxes
Sarah Kreps

Donald Trump’s cruel immigration politics is a scam
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump Goes Rogue
George Packer

Links of the Week - 22 June 2018

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We Now Know Why Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach Lobbied for a Citizenship Question on the Census
Ari Berman

Ajit Pai Is Twisting the Meaning of the “Open Internet”
April Glaser

Jeff Flake Should Do Something
Jamelle Bouie

Maine voters blew up their voting system and started from scratch
Ella Nilsen

A Win for Kim
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 15 June 2018

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Trump’s legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny
Matthew Yglesias

America’s allies should respond to steel tariffs with targeted sanctions on the Trump Organization
Matthew Yglesias

Showdown in Singapore
Fred Kaplan

Forget Russia. Maybe It’s the U.S. That Doesn’t Belong at the G-7
Joshua Keating

There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 8 June 2018

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NFL owners are stifling speech, but it’s not called “no-platforming” when you’re rich and own the platform
Matthew Yglesias

There is no productivity crisis, experts say
Steve LeVine

Forget about broad-based pay hikes, executives say
Steve LeVine

California’s top-two primary chaos, explained
Andrew Prokop

Here’s who to blame for rising gasoline prices
Amy Harder

California could avoid the chaos of the “top two” primary with ranked-choice voting
Lee Drutman

Trump Crony Proves Widespread Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist
Mark Joseph Stern

America has local political institutions but nationalized politics. This is a problem.
Lee Drutman

The media's undeniable pro-Trump bias
Tim Miller

Trump Pardoned Dinesh D’Souza to Troll Liberals
Jacob Heilbrunn

Links of the Week - 1 June 2018

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All politicians “game” the system. The question is how?
Lee Drutman

Trump vs. the “Deep State”
Evan Osnos

Liberals, It’s Not About Being Nice
Osita Nwanevu

The D.C. Metro Almost Had a Very Cool Abstract Map
Mark Byrnes

The Subway Map That Rattled New Yorkers
Alice Rawsthorn

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
Matthew Stewart

Kim in Control
Fred Kaplan

How Baby Boomers Broke America
Steven Brill

Backfire Hurricane
William Saletan

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 25 May 2018

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American democracy has faced worse threats than Donald Trump
Ezra Klein

The False Promise of Term Limits
Jamelle Bouie

How to be the next Trump
Jim VandeHei

Why are we taking Donald Trump’s Korea diplomacy seriously?
Matthew Yglesias

Cruelty is the defining characteristic of Donald Trump’s politics and policy
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 18 May 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The Case for Redistribution
Tyler Zimmer

Why Mueller Has to Expose Trump’s Crooked Business Empire
Jonathan Chait

Trump Has Wrecked One of the Most Successful Arms-Control Deals in Modern History
Fred Kaplan

How a Hole Punch Shaped Public Perception of the Great Depression
Aida Amer

Grifter or Grafter?
Jacob Weisberg

Links of the Week - 11 May 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Econ Grapples With What Causes Recessions
Noah Smith

The Pain We Still Need to Feel
Jamelle Bouie

What the Koch Brothers’ Money Buys
Mark Joseph Stern

New York City Street Parking Is Preposterously Corrupt
Henry Grabar

New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls
Anna Kusmer

Links of the Week - 4 May 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


James Comey isn’t the hero we deserve. But he’s the hero we need
Matthew Yglesias

The real reason the Republican tax cut isn’t going to work
Matt O'Brien

Yes, Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility. But that will (and should) change.
Mark Schmitt

What Is Denuclearization Anyway?
Fred Kaplan

Need Work? Maybe That's a Job for Government
Noah Smith

Index Funds Are Not the Problem
Felix Salmon

A Lynching Memorial
Campbell Robertson

The Myth That Markets Get Prices Right Won’t Die
Noah Smith

Stop Talking About Race and IQ
William Saletan

Is Robin Hanson America’s Creepiest Economist?
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 27 April 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Democrats Shouldn’t Give in to White Racism
Jamelle Bouie

The emerging plan to save the American labor movement
Dylan Matthews

The Outlook for Public Transit Isn't All That Bad
Noah Smith

The Bell Curve is about policy. And it’s wrong.
Matthew Yglesias

House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics
Matthew Yglesias

Paul Ryan paved the way for Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party
Dylan Matthews

Econ Majors Graduate With a Huge Knowledge Gap
Noah Smith

Trump is drowning in scandal. He can’t focus on Syria.
Max Boot

Chilling maps of lynchings in 1930s America
Frank Jacobs

On trade, Trump either doesn’t understand the basics facts or he doesn’t care
Matt O'Brien

Links of the Week - 20 April 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


It’s Time to Stop Yammering About Liberal Bias
Osita Nwanevu

Employers are increasingly using their workers as lobbyists. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Trump-era politics is a surreal nightmare and we can’t wake up
Matthew Yglesias

It’s harder for Democrats to gerrymander effectively
Matthew Yglesias

Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability
Jonathan Chait

Trump's Latest Domestic Spending Plot May Be To Ignore The Law
Stan Collender

Tired of winning yet? You're not alone.
Matt Bai

Econ 101 No Longer Explains the Job Market
Noah Smith

Workers don’t have much say in corporations. Why not give them seats on the board?
Dylan Matthews

More and more companies have monopoly power over workers’ wages. That’s killing the economy.
Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, and Glen Weyl

Links of the Week - 13 April 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Mick Mulvaney’s Latest Scandal Makes Him Look Like a Craven Hypocrite
Jordan Weissmann

No Strength, No Peace
Fred Kaplan

It’s Time to Panic Now
Fred Kaplan

John Bolton and Gina Haspel Are the Consequences of Our Failure to Reckon With the Bush Years
Joshua Keating

Make Them Pay
Heidi Li Feldman

How the NRA derails gun control debates
Carlos Maza

Inflation and unemployment
David Andolfatto

How high and low you can go? Here's a vertical map of Earth
Frank Jacobs

Who Made the Worst Decision of the Iraq War?
Fred Kaplan

Why Would the Atlantic Hire Kevin Williamson?
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 6 April 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Trump wants to liberalize health data. Easier said than done.
Sarah Kliff

The real reason the U.S. spends twice as much on health care as other wealthy countries
Carolyn Y. Johnson

Larry Kudlow Is an Insufferable Wall Street Hack. Let’s Hope Trump Picks Him to Replace Gary Cohn Anyway.
Jordan Weissmann

Larry Kudlow solves what Trump believes is his real problem
Ezra Klein

Larry Kudlow, Trump’s new top economic adviser, explained
Dylan Matthews

The Artifice of the Deal
Matt Bai

A Prefabricated Tragedy
Matthew N. Eisler

Why Money Managers Are Paid So Much Is a Mystery
Noah Smith

The myth of “forcing people out of their cars”
Matthew Yglesias

Celebrating 50 years of the Chrystie Street Connection
Vanshnookenraggen

Links of the Week - 30 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


How states with loose oversight export crime guns nationwide
Christopher Ingraham

“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”
David Corn & Michael Isikoff

Summit Surprise
Fred Kaplan

Martin Shkreli Is Going to Jail and I Can’t Even Bring Myself to Enjoy It
Jordan Weissmann

Rough Trade
William Saletan

Trump’s Perversion
William Saletan

Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America
Gregory Smithsimon

John Bolton, the ultrahawk rumored to be Trump’s next national security adviser, explained
Zack Beauchamp

Trump’s VA Is Purging Civil Servants
Isaac Arnsdorf

Was the Poisoning of a Former Russian Spy a Chemical Weapons Attack?
Joshua Keating

Links of the Week - 23 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The Soul-Crushing Legacy of Billy Graham
Bob Moser

What Donald Trump understands about conservatism
Ezra Klein

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
Jane Mayer

Blacks Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s
Antoinette Harrell

Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations
David Roberts

It’s not just Gary Cohn. Trump’s White House is in a staffing crisis.
Ezra Klein

There Is Not a Single Good Reason to Deregulate Banks Right Now. Democrats Are Helping It Happen Anyway.
Jordan Weissmann

Why Isn’t Trump President for Life Yet?
Yascha Mounk

What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
David Corn & Michael Isikoff

Uber Better Not Be the Future of Work
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 16 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


7 world maps show the highs and lows of American exceptionalism
Frank Jacobs

Cop Stoppers
William Saletan

Trump Comments Show Disdain for the Rule of Law
James Hohmann

No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here
Tyler Cowen

How Billionaires Learned to Love Populism
Amy Chua

Trump’s tariff decision is one of the worst fears about his presidency come to life
Zack Beauchamp

Study: Uber and Lyft Drivers Make Median Wage of $3.37 Per Hour
Aaron Mak

How Not to Become Jared Kushner in 4 Easy Steps
Samantha Vinograd

Trump’s commerce secretary: tariffs raising car prices $175 is “trivial”
Tara Golshan

Uber May Have Imposed 12-Hour Driving Limits, but It’s Still Pushing Drivers in Other Troubling Ways
Alex Rosenblat

Links of the Week - 9 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Heritage of Hate
Daniel Horwitz

Trump’s plan does nothing for America’s real infrastructure problem
Matthew Yglesias

The New Graveyard of Empires?
Fred Kaplan

U.S. GDP Expenditure Components
David Andolfatto

Traffic congestion is taking a toll on Boston. Should Boston take a toll on congestion?
Nik DeCosta-Klipa

Trump hasn’t changed the Republican Party. It never cared about the deficit.
Matt O'Brien

Build Transit Where It’s Most Effective, Not Where It’s Least Expensive
Vanshnookenraggen

Inside the CIA’s Plot to Kill Fidel Castro—With Mafia Help
Thomas Maier

I Cut, You Choose
Will Riedel & Anish Sarma

The next big bad bet might be lurking on Wall Street — and we just got a glimpse of it
Emily Stewart

Links of the Week - 2 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

What is the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX)?
Zachary Basu

The robots v. robots trading that has hijacked the stock market
Steven Pearlstein

Mattis Goes Nuclear
Fred Kaplan

Here’s what war with North Korea would look like
Yochi Dreazen

The Party of Carter Page
William Saletan

Fiscal Policy and the Price-Level
David Andolfatto

Has Anyone Seen the President?
Michael Lewis

Panicking about the stock market? You’re thinking about it the wrong way.
Roger Lowenstein

In 1968, Memphis sanitation workers went on strike. In 2018, their fight continues.
P. R. Lockhart

Why there’s so much chaos in the Trump administration
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 23 February 2018

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The Backward Logic of the Nunes Memo
Jonathan Chait

Survival at All Costs
Phillip Carter

It's Time for Wall Street to Give Up Its Love Affair With the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Sean Williams

Why Rising Wages Scare the Heck Out of Investors
Jordan Weissmann

Please Don’t Panic About the Stock Market
Jordan Weissmann

Trump administration faces audit of proposed rule that could let bosses keep tips
Danielle Paquette

What David Brooks Misunderstands About Abortion
Cheryl Axelrod

The Smearing of Christopher Steele
John Sipher

Don’t kid yourself. The future is bleak.
Matt O'Brien

In defense of Social Security Disability Insurance
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 16 February 2018

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Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law
Yascha Mounk

Bitcoin Is the New Gold
Noah Smith

Forged Under Fire—Bob Mueller and Jim Comey’s Unusual Friendship
Garrett M. Graff

How the GOP Went Crazy
Kurt Andersen

A close reading of the Nunes memo shows how sketchy it is
Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 9 February 2018

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The real reason the Nunes memo matters
Zack Beauchamp

Defending the Indefensible
William Saletan

I Was There for Nixon’s Last State of the Union
Fred Kaplan

I’m a Republican. Why Is My Party Gaslighting America?
Amanda Carpenter

This was the scariest part of Trump’s State of the Union
Zack Beauchamp

Links of the Week - 2 February 2018

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Are Democrats becoming more like Republicans?
Ezra Klein

Democrats didn’t cave on the shutdown
Ezra Klein

Bank of America Just Reminded Us of Why We Need Postal Banking
Jordan Weissmann

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise?
Jordan Weissmann

What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ’s Great Society
Joshua Zeitz

Links of the Week - 26 January 2018

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Trump’s “shithole countries” comment exposes the core of Trumpism
Zack Beauchamp

How to deal with the age of celebrity candidates
Lee Drutman

Congressional Republicans think Donald Trump’s sloth and ignorance is a feature, not a bug
Matthew Yglesias

Trump is making the racist subtext text
Dara Lind

These Vibrant Maps Reveal the World’s Hidden Geographies
Sarah Laskow

Links of the Week - 19 January 2018

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The economy is normal again
Matthew Yglesias

Monopolies May Be Worse for Workers Than for Consumers
Noah Smith

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read
Ezra Klein

How to Make Metro Great Again
Matthew Yglesias

There is no separation of powers without divided government
Lee Drutman

The Other Terrifying Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis
George Perkovich

Must-Reads of 2017: Debunking Southern Mythmaking
Albert R. Hunt

Bitcoin is the new Middle Ages
Matt O'Brien

Beyond the gossip, Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury reveals a president in crisis
Ezra Klein

Why Republicans Love Dumb Presidents
Jonathan Chait

Links of the Week - 12 January 2018

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Venezuela Is Living a Hyperinflation Nightmare
Noah Smith

What “affordable housing” really means
Matthew Yglesias

How We Killed Expertise
Tom Nichols

Start Worrying When Investors Borrow to Buy Bitcoins
Noah Smith

Do It Yourself
Jon D. Michaels

The real cost of the Republican tax bill
Matthew Yglesias

The uninsured are overusing emergency rooms — and other health-care myths
Carolyn Y. Johnson

What Elon Musk Doesn't Get About Urban Transit
Jarrett Walker

The easiest way to tell that bitcoin is a huge bubble
Matt O'Brien

Uber, but for addressing congestion externalities
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 5 January 2018

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Are Democrats suckers for holding their own to high standards?
David Roberts

Baby-Sitting the Economy
Paul Krugman
We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America
Matthew Yglesias
The Roy Moore Debacle Should Shock the GOP Into Changing Its Ways
Reihan Salam

Bitcoin: 'This is a casino, not an investment'
Axios

Net neutrality isn’t the only way to keep the internet fair. It’s just the only way in America.
Emily Stewart

Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
Jane Coaston

States’ Rights No More
Adam Skaggs

Conservative Attacks Sap IRS Oversight of Charities
Political Wire

The simple reason bitcoin will never be a currency
Matt O'Brien