A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
How the South Skews America
Michael Lind
How FDR Invented the Four Freedoms
Josh Zeitz
These maps show the vastly separate worlds of the rich and poor
Emily Badger
Jeb and the Nation of Takers
Paul Krugman
The South’s Heritage Is So Much More Than a Flag
Patterson Hood
The face of Greece’s defiance was a brash economist who pushed Greece to reject Europe
Ana Swanson
The End of the 2016 Election Is Closer Than You Think
Doug Sosnik
This is a great point about Iran's official anti-Americanism
Max Fisher
How World War III became possible
Max Fisher
How likely is nuclear war with Russia?
Max Fisher
18 July 2015
11 July 2015
Links of the Week - 10 July 2015
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What This Cruel War Was Over
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The forgotten origins of Greece’s crisis will make you think twice about who’s to blame
Ana Swanson
George Takei to Clarence Thomas: The government can take our dignity. They did it to me.
Tez Clark
I’m a Black Southerner Who’s Seen Racism All My Life. Why Do I Stay Silent?
Isaac J. Bailey
3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake
Dylan Matthews
The untold story of how today’s fight over vaccines has its roots in the American Revolution
Carolyn Johnson
People on third base claiming they hit a triple, or marginal product theory at work…not!
Jared Bernstein
Corporate America beat back its best job trainers, and now it’s paying a price
Lydia DePillis
“Richmond Reoccupied by Men Who Wore the Gray”
Maurie McInnis
What This Cruel War Was Over
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Matthew Yglesias
The forgotten origins of Greece’s crisis will make you think twice about who’s to blame
Ana Swanson
George Takei to Clarence Thomas: The government can take our dignity. They did it to me.
Tez Clark
I’m a Black Southerner Who’s Seen Racism All My Life. Why Do I Stay Silent?
Isaac J. Bailey
3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake
Dylan Matthews
The untold story of how today’s fight over vaccines has its roots in the American Revolution
Carolyn Johnson
People on third base claiming they hit a triple, or marginal product theory at work…not!
Jared Bernstein
Corporate America beat back its best job trainers, and now it’s paying a price
Lydia DePillis
“Richmond Reoccupied by Men Who Wore the Gray”
Maurie McInnis
04 July 2015
Links of the Week - 3 July 2015
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What the Confederate flag really means to America today, according to a race historian
Roberto A. Ferdman
Measuring inflation expectations, part I
The FRED Blog
Here's One Confederate Flag That Shouldn't Be Taken Down
Gabrielle Canon
Measuring inflation expectations, part II
The FRED Blog
Take Down The Confederate Flag. Now.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy — and it always has
Libby Nelson
Save Alexander Hamilton!
Ron Chernow
Retire Hamilton, Jackson and All the Rest, Too
H. W. Brands
Ken Burns: Confederate flag isn't about heritage. It's about resistance to civil rights.
German Lopez
It Is Accomplished
Andrew Sullivan
What the Confederate flag really means to America today, according to a race historian
Roberto A. Ferdman
Measuring inflation expectations, part I
The FRED Blog
Here's One Confederate Flag That Shouldn't Be Taken Down
Gabrielle Canon
Measuring inflation expectations, part II
The FRED Blog
Take Down The Confederate Flag. Now.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy — and it always has
Libby Nelson
Save Alexander Hamilton!
Ron Chernow
Retire Hamilton, Jackson and All the Rest, Too
H. W. Brands
Ken Burns: Confederate flag isn't about heritage. It's about resistance to civil rights.
German Lopez
It Is Accomplished
Andrew Sullivan
29 June 2015
It's really hard to rank 'worst days,' Sen. Cruz edition
Sen. Cruz: "Today is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation's history," referring to the Supreme Court's dual rulings against a suit opposing healthcare expansion and against laws than forbid gay marriage.
I get it that people have different political opinions, and that to people like Sen. Cruz, marriages such as their own can only be valuable if other people cannot have them, and healthcare is only worth having if there is a class of people who cannot have that either.
That said, I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around the, uh, unique ideological requirements of the view that the Court's ruling against those opinions is of a piece with Pearl Harbor, Sept. 11, The Challenger and Columbia disasters, the San Francisco earthquake, the Galveston hurricane, the Dred Scott decision, and the assault on Fort Sumter. (Well, I guess I admit I can see how Sen. Cruz thinks these two rulings are worse than Dred Scott and Sumter.)
No, the part of Sen. Cruz's statement that is so baffling to this correspondent is that it's really hard to argue that, regardless of one's views, these two rulings marked even the worst 24-hour period in America this month. I guess it's possible that Sen. Cruz's views on whether or not universal healthcare and marriage are worse than racist terrorism are still not fully settled. I think for him to elucidate this further would be a public service.
I get it that people have different political opinions, and that to people like Sen. Cruz, marriages such as their own can only be valuable if other people cannot have them, and healthcare is only worth having if there is a class of people who cannot have that either.
That said, I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around the, uh, unique ideological requirements of the view that the Court's ruling against those opinions is of a piece with Pearl Harbor, Sept. 11, The Challenger and Columbia disasters, the San Francisco earthquake, the Galveston hurricane, the Dred Scott decision, and the assault on Fort Sumter. (Well, I guess I admit I can see how Sen. Cruz thinks these two rulings are worse than Dred Scott and Sumter.)
No, the part of Sen. Cruz's statement that is so baffling to this correspondent is that it's really hard to argue that, regardless of one's views, these two rulings marked even the worst 24-hour period in America this month. I guess it's possible that Sen. Cruz's views on whether or not universal healthcare and marriage are worse than racist terrorism are still not fully settled. I think for him to elucidate this further would be a public service.
27 June 2015
Links of the Week - 26 June 2015
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Here's Why Libertarians Are Mostly Men
Kevin Drum
Why Are Libertarians Mostly Dudes?
Jeet Heer
Regulation and Arbitrage
Paul Krugman
Store of value
Noah Smith
FRED-MD: A Monthly Database for Macroeconomic Research
The FRED Blog
That Time the Middle East Exploded and Nixon Was Drunk
Tim Weiner
The deeper problems we miss when we attack ‘gentrification’
Emily Badger
Why the U.S. government needs to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill
Steven Mufson
Why savers need to stop whining and do something smart to make money
Matt O'Brien
A hilarious Australian stand-up comic explains what U.S. gun laws look like to the rest of the world
Jim Jefferies
Here's Why Libertarians Are Mostly Men
Kevin Drum
Why Are Libertarians Mostly Dudes?
Jeet Heer
Regulation and Arbitrage
Paul Krugman
Store of value
Noah Smith
FRED-MD: A Monthly Database for Macroeconomic Research
The FRED Blog
That Time the Middle East Exploded and Nixon Was Drunk
Tim Weiner
The deeper problems we miss when we attack ‘gentrification’
Emily Badger
Why the U.S. government needs to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill
Steven Mufson
Why savers need to stop whining and do something smart to make money
Matt O'Brien
A hilarious Australian stand-up comic explains what U.S. gun laws look like to the rest of the world
Jim Jefferies
20 June 2015
Links of the Week - 19 June 2015
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Wall Street Is Using the Power of Dodd-Frank Against Itself
Adam Davidson
Why is it so hard to regulate the banks? It’s less the complexity than the political power.
Jared Bernstein
The Mutability of Wages
Paul Krugman
The real reason American passenger trains are so bad
Matthew Yglesias
Poor Judgment
Jamelle Bouie
Zimbabwe is paying people $5 for 175 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars
Matt O'Brien
Why buying only the cable channels you watch probably wouldn't save you money
Timothy B. Lee
Iceland put bankers in jail rather than bailing them out — and it worked
Matthew Yglesias
Airlines Exploit The (Peter) Diamond Paradox?
Cheap Talk
Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme
Matt O'Brien
Wall Street Is Using the Power of Dodd-Frank Against Itself
Adam Davidson
Why is it so hard to regulate the banks? It’s less the complexity than the political power.
Jared Bernstein
The Mutability of Wages
Paul Krugman
The real reason American passenger trains are so bad
Matthew Yglesias
Poor Judgment
Jamelle Bouie
Zimbabwe is paying people $5 for 175 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars
Matt O'Brien
Why buying only the cable channels you watch probably wouldn't save you money
Timothy B. Lee
Iceland put bankers in jail rather than bailing them out — and it worked
Matthew Yglesias
Airlines Exploit The (Peter) Diamond Paradox?
Cheap Talk
Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme
Matt O'Brien
19 June 2015
Violent Hate Crimes Involve Both Hatred and Violence
The photo below appeared recently on the Facebook page of a far-right group called "Young Americans for Liberty."
It features a quote attributed to actor Samuel L. Jackson:
It features a quote attributed to actor Samuel L. Jackson:
I don't think it's about more gun control. I grew up in the south with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.This is a cute sentiment, but it presupposes that events such as the terrorist attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC cannot be about both too many guns and too little respect for life. After all, the U.S. hasn't got a monopoly on hate; plenty of other Western industrialized nations have as many problems with hate as we do, but do not have anything close to the problems with gun violence that we've got.
13 June 2015
Links of the Week - 12 June 2015
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You've met Hillarynomics. Now meet left-of-Hillarynomics.
Dylan Matthews
16 maps that Americans don't like to talk about
Max Fisher
US presidential elections used to be way more chaotic. This map shows all of them.
Phil Edwards
An Odd Couple
David Warsh
I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
Redditt Hudson
Business Executives are NOT experts in Economics
Bill McBride
Does brand differentiation lower prices?
Matt Bruenig
Now we know what the Federal Reserve did to inequality
Yian Q. Mui
For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Harvard money
Dylan Matthews
Malcolm Gladwell mercilessly mocks John Paulson’s obscene $400 million gift to Harvard
Dylan Matthews
You've met Hillarynomics. Now meet left-of-Hillarynomics.
Dylan Matthews
16 maps that Americans don't like to talk about
Max Fisher
US presidential elections used to be way more chaotic. This map shows all of them.
Phil Edwards
An Odd Couple
David Warsh
I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
Redditt Hudson
Business Executives are NOT experts in Economics
Bill McBride
Does brand differentiation lower prices?
Matt Bruenig
Now we know what the Federal Reserve did to inequality
Yian Q. Mui
For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Harvard money
Dylan Matthews
Malcolm Gladwell mercilessly mocks John Paulson’s obscene $400 million gift to Harvard
Dylan Matthews
06 June 2015
Links of the Week - 5 June 2015
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President Obama on how Fox News teaches the middle class to demonize the poor
Emily Badger
Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
Joseph Stromberg
Fox News: We don't call the poor "leeches." Jon Stewart: Let me Google that for you!
Dara Lind
Blinkers and Lies
Paul Krugman
How America became the most powerful country on Earth, in 11 maps
Max Fisher
The Corporate Archipelago
Paul Krugman
The flat tax falls flat for good reasons
Jared Bernstein
Free-market dogma has jacked up our electricity bills
David Cay Johnston
The mean vs. the median of family income
The FRED Blog
If you laugh at this map, it means you're a huge map nerd
Max Fisher
President Obama on how Fox News teaches the middle class to demonize the poor
Emily Badger
Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
Joseph Stromberg
Fox News: We don't call the poor "leeches." Jon Stewart: Let me Google that for you!
Dara Lind
Blinkers and Lies
Paul Krugman
How America became the most powerful country on Earth, in 11 maps
Max Fisher
The Corporate Archipelago
Paul Krugman
The flat tax falls flat for good reasons
Jared Bernstein
Free-market dogma has jacked up our electricity bills
David Cay Johnston
The mean vs. the median of family income
The FRED Blog
If you laugh at this map, it means you're a huge map nerd
Max Fisher
30 May 2015
Links of the Week - 29 May 2015
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For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Ivy League colleges money
Dylan Matthews
If Obama and Clinton are "affirmative action" candidates, so are white men
Jenée Desmond-Harris
Why you should never, ever play the lottery
Matt O'Brien
The Mysteries of the Masons
Andrew Burt
Whatever you think of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama should get his fast track authority
Matthew Yglesias
The surprising economic principles behind car seats, email scams, and Japanese driving habits
Robert Frank
Why John Nash Matters
Benjamin Morris
Data Note: There’s a reason we here at OTE often focus on year-over-year changes
Jared Bernstein
The author of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ on the life and death of John Nash
Zachary Goldfarb
Fighting for History
Paul Krugman
For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Ivy League colleges money
Dylan Matthews
If Obama and Clinton are "affirmative action" candidates, so are white men
Jenée Desmond-Harris
Why you should never, ever play the lottery
Matt O'Brien
The Mysteries of the Masons
Andrew Burt
Whatever you think of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama should get his fast track authority
Matthew Yglesias
The surprising economic principles behind car seats, email scams, and Japanese driving habits
Robert Frank
Why John Nash Matters
Benjamin Morris
Data Note: There’s a reason we here at OTE often focus on year-over-year changes
Jared Bernstein
The author of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ on the life and death of John Nash
Zachary Goldfarb
Fighting for History
Paul Krugman
23 May 2015
Links of the Week - 22 May 2015
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Labor force participation: Is a trend or a cycle at work?
The FRED Blog
Threats to Liberty
Dahlia Lithwick
Huckabee’s Welfare State Conservatism
Jamele Bouie
David Brooks Endorses Nepotism
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior - NYTimes.com
Richard Thaler
A Note On Libertarian Anti-Paternalism
Matt Bruenig
Who's The Best Candidate?
Evan Soltas
In Praise of Linear Models…
Chris House
Jeb Bush embraces the narrative of Christian victimhood
Paul Waldman
Research: Natural Rate of Unemployment under 5% and Falling
Bill McBride
Labor force participation: Is a trend or a cycle at work?
The FRED Blog
Threats to Liberty
Dahlia Lithwick
Huckabee’s Welfare State Conservatism
Jamele Bouie
David Brooks Endorses Nepotism
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior - NYTimes.com
Richard Thaler
A Note On Libertarian Anti-Paternalism
Matt Bruenig
Who's The Best Candidate?
Evan Soltas
In Praise of Linear Models…
Chris House
Jeb Bush embraces the narrative of Christian victimhood
Paul Waldman
Research: Natural Rate of Unemployment under 5% and Falling
Bill McBride
16 May 2015
Links of the Week - 15 May 2015
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
The American Dream: Aspirations and Realities
Jared Bernstein
Cop Unions
Matt Bruenig
Three more facts to add to the CEAs 10 facts about trade
Jared Bernstein
Paul Ryan loves talking about poverty, but he keeps getting the basic facts wrong
Dylan Matthews
Americans Get Free Trade's Dark Side
Noah Smith
Ideology Creators of the New Gilded Age
Erik Loomis
Explaining US Inequality Exceptionalism
Paul Krugman
Building streets for humans rather than cars could help solve the affordable housing crisis
Matthew Yglesias
Families don't balance their budgets, and neither should the federal government
Jonathan Allen
The Worst Ex-Chairman Ever
Paul Krugman
The American Dream: Aspirations and Realities
Jared Bernstein
Cop Unions
Matt Bruenig
Three more facts to add to the CEAs 10 facts about trade
Jared Bernstein
Paul Ryan loves talking about poverty, but he keeps getting the basic facts wrong
Dylan Matthews
Americans Get Free Trade's Dark Side
Noah Smith
Ideology Creators of the New Gilded Age
Erik Loomis
Explaining US Inequality Exceptionalism
Paul Krugman
Building streets for humans rather than cars could help solve the affordable housing crisis
Matthew Yglesias
Families don't balance their budgets, and neither should the federal government
Jonathan Allen
The Worst Ex-Chairman Ever
Paul Krugman
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