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