Links of the Week - 22 January 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Retiring members of Congress illustrate the problems with the campaign finance system
Lee Drutman

Mutual Funds Enrich the Financial Services Industry at Your Expense

Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack

It is absolutely scandalous and ridiculous that American immigrants can't become president
Dylan Matthews

The ways you’re most likely to die, at every age
Ana Swanson

“Audit the Fed” is not about auditing the Fed
Ben Bernanke

Feeling stuck in your job? Blame management consulting.
Lydia De Pillis

Making sense of Donald Trump
John Patty

TPP not equal to “free trade”
Jared Bernstein

How the Klan Got Its Hood
Alison Kinney

Bernie Sanders has a bold, simple idea for improving public education
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 15 January 2016

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Marco Rubio’s terrible new idea
Paul Waldman

Making And Using Models
Paul Krugman

What did you do in the currency war, Daddy?
Ben Bernanke

The real roots of Sunni-Shia conflict: beyond the myth of "ancient religious hatreds"
Max Fisher

Beyond oil: the US-Saudi alliance, explained
Zack Beauchamp

The single most important fact for understanding North Korea

Max Fisher

How Can Banks Get Away With Charging Such High Fees?

Eric Posner

One graphic that explains how brokered conventions work — and why they're so unlikely

Sarah Frostenson

Saudi Arabia's latest panicky move: a possible IPO of its state-owned oil company

Matthew Yglesias

Charles Koch complains that he doesn’t have enough political power

Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 8 January 2016

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Can we stop pretending that Republicans care about the deficit now?
Paul Waldman

Why hipsters all look alike
Jeff Guo

What a real D.C. streetcar looks like
Emily Badger

Donald Trump Isn’t the Biggest Narcissist in the GOP Field. Ted Cruz Is.
Curt Anderson

Long Road to Hell: America in Iraq [audio]
Fareed Zakaria GPS

The elusive 2% inflation target
The FRED Blog

The Big Short tells a complicated story, but the Great Recession is very simple
Matthew Yglesias

Jon Meacham: Live at Politics & Prose
Live at Politics & Prose

The Fed and Financial Reform – Reflections on Sen. Sanders op-Ed
Larry Summers

Low interest rate policy and secular stagnation
David Andolfatto

Links of the Week - 1 January 2016

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What really drives you crazy about waiting in line (it actually isn’t the wait at all)
Ana Swanson

Profiling
Jonathan Wight

The Senate is so poorly designed it would be literally illegal for a US state to copy it
Dylan Matthews

The Enduring Relevance of “Manias, Panics, and Crashes”
Joseph Joyce

The Fed's own data contradicts its case for raising interest rates
Timothy B. Lee

The key to understanding Ben Carson's weird campaign? Glenn Beck.
Dylan Matthews

A Brief History Behind the Street Names of Washington, D.C.
Ghosts of DC

Marco Rubio's rise may be a little too House of Cards for his colleagues
Matthew Yglesias

Why medicine costs so much in America
Julia Belluz

This is a crucial and underappreciated point about why defeating ISIS is so difficult
Max Fisher

Links of the Week - 25 December 2015

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One depressing quote perfectly sums up our relationship with gun violence
The Economist, via Christopher Ingraham

America’s biggest housing program is run by the IRS, and it’s a huge giveaway to rich people
Dylan Matthews

The Price We Pay for Liberty?
Mark Joseph Stern

"This is a political choice we make"
Ezra Klein

Why the U.S. should pay Irish drug prices if Pfizer wants to pay Irish tax rates
Dr. Peter B. Bach

No, you don’t have an absolute right to own guns
Emily Badger

A telling — and disturbing — anecdote about conservative media from a House Republican
Matthew Yglesias

This one anecdote perfectly explains today’s GOP
Greg Sargent

The Passive-Aggressive Monetary Two-Step
Paul Krugman

The Second Amendment Is Not Absolute
Sonja West

Links of the Week - 18 December 2015

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Why the media struggles to deal with Donald Trump’s race-baiting
Paul Waldman

Japanese promises (a reply to John Cochrane)
Noah Smith

Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Ethics
Jonathan Wight

The segregation-era travel guide that saved black Americans from having to sleep in their cars
Dara Lind

This 2002 PBS debate over the Iraq War is both weirdly prescient and totally bonkers
Dylan Matthews

Thanksgiving, 1963
Josh Zeitz

Why Wall Street's campaign to enrich shareholders could be bad for everyone else
Timothy B. Lee

Obamacare’s biggest political problem: the people it helps don’t vote, but its critics do
Ezra Klein

Avars, Arabs, and History
Paul Krugman

The real-life election of 1800 was even wilder than Hamilton the musical lets on
Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 11 December 2015

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27 hilariously bad maps that explain nothing
Max Fisher

This chart shows something's gone wrong with the US housing market
Matthew Yglesias

Tax the (upper) middle class, please
Mark Schmitt

Take a Tour of Battlefields, Protests, and Prisons With These Photography Legends
Mark Murrmann

What is the “natural rate” for u6?
Jared Bernstein

Ordinary Americans can show Congress how to save the U.S. Postal Service
Steven Kull

ISIS, a history: how the world's worst terror group came to be
Zack Beauchamp

You’re more likely to be fatally crushed by furniture than killed by a terrorist
Andrew Shaver

Why Gronk can't be stopped
Matt Bowen

Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero. [video]
Johnny Harris and Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 4 December 2015

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6 reasons not to worry about Russia invading the Baltics
Robert Person

Bitcoin and central banking
David Andolfatto

The Hidden Hardline Side of George H.W. Bush
Jon Meacham

The Faces of the Spymasters
David Hume Kennerly

Stunning photos show what America looked like during the Great Depression
Ana Swanson

‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’
Chris Whipple

There's a big problem with Ted Cruz's position on legal immigration
Timothy B. Lee

Models of the minimum wage (for what they’re worth)
Jared Bernstein

Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place
Christopher Ingraham

The awfulness of daylight saving time, mapped
Brian Resnick

Links of the Week - 27 November 2015

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NeoFisherism without rational expectations
David Andolfatto

The Psychology of Statistics
Jordan Ellenberg

A fascinating color-coded map of Africa's diversity
Max Fisher

In taking on cosmetologists - and other licensed professions - the White House may have picked a fight it can’t win
Lydia DePillis

Why Republicans are getting one of the most obvious things wrong
Matt O'Brien

Chris Christie's criticism of the Fed is self-contradictory
Matthew Yglesias

The new Republican orthodoxy on monetary policy could be political suicide
Timothy B. Lee

Should soldiers’ votes get counted? That’s not as easy as you’d think.
Donald S. Inbody

Is the PPI going crazy?
The FRED Blog

Stephen Colbert wants to give angry Christians the Starbucks cup they deserve
Alex Abad-Santos

Links of the Week - 20 November 2015

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Evolution and the Electorate
Jonathan Wight

5 things you should know about the Republican welfare state
Christopher Faricy

“Free stuff:” the hypocrisy of a growing campaign theme
Jared Bernstein

What Ralph Nader and Ben Carson don't get about interest rates
Timothy B. Lee

America may be in a reinforcing feedback loop of growing inequality and Republican rule
Lee Drutman

The 10 deadliest interstates in America, mapped
Sarah Frostenson

Every term the Census has used to describe America’s racial and ethnic groups since 1790
Laris Karklis and Emily Badger

This is the real unemployment rate

Edward Lazear

The Tragedy of Ben Bernanke
Brad DeLong

Fisher without Euler
David Andolfatto

Links of the Week - 13 November 2015

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The risk that America will default on its debts is now higher than ever
Paul Waldman

The GOP has a new Speaker, but he's stuck with the same doomed strategy
Matthew Yglesias

Why the GOP Won’t Like Any Honest Debate Moderators
Jamelle Bouie

This critique of the Fed isn’t backed by logic nor evidence
Larry Summers

Ted Cruz is wrong about inflation
Timothy B. Lee

Bernanke’s Biggest Blunder
Eric Posner

The Phillips curve after the Great Recession
The FRED Blog

Bernie Sanders has a pretty revolutionary idea to change America’s post offices
Max Ehrenfreund

This Kardashian headline shows why two Nobel winners say the economy is broken
Jeff Guo

Why Republicans like Ben Carson love comparing abortion to slavery
Emily Crockett

Links of the Week - 6 November 2015

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On Gun Laws, We Must Get the History Right
Priya Satia

A brief history of VPs trying (and mostly failing) to be president
Alvin Chang

2 economists imagined a financial crisis without stimulus or bailouts. It’s … ugly.
Dylan Matthews

A shocking amount of conservative politics is a multilevel marketing scam
Matthew Yglesias

Scam They Am
Paul Krugman

Why Janet Yellen should ignore the experts and listen to this naive farmer
Timothy B. Lee

Is there a rebellion at the Federal Reserve?
Matt O'Brien

College textbooks are a racket

Henry Farrell

Paul Ryan isn’t a hypocrite on family time
Jim Tankersley

A Barney Frank Documentary Shows How Soul-Destroying the Closet Can Be
June Thomas