Links of the Week - 25 November 2016

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‘We Are in for a Pretty Long Civil War’
Julia Ioffe

David Brooks says conservatism has failed, but he misses the biggest reason: race
Zack Beauchamp

The verdict for those armed militants who took over a federal building is white privilege in action
German Lopez

An Election Season Reminder That Voting Is Mathematically Flawed

Evelyn Lamb

America, There Is a Better Way to Vote
Seth Stevenson

White Won
Jamelle Bouie

Trump Country
Henry Grabar

Republicans Stole the Supreme Court
Dahlia Lithwick

Make America Great Again: how progressives can reach rural America — and how they can’t
Todd VanDerWerff

Welcome to the Paul Ryan Presidency
Jim Newell

Links of the Week - 18 November 2016

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Ricardian Equivalence, benchmark models, and academics response to the financial crisis
Simon Wren-Lewis

Libertarianism's Time Has Come and Gone
Noah Smith

An Econ Test Question We Shouldn't Get Wrong
Noah Smith

What we can learn from one of the biggest mysteries — and misunderstandings — of the American Revolution
Jeff Guo

The Chris Wallace debate question that set off a firestorm
Ana Swanson

Republicans told their voters that politics is inherently evil. That stuck them with Trump.
Paul Waldman

Vulnerability Is the Internet’s Original Sin
Fred Kaplan

The Curse Breaker
Steven Goldman

Voting by mail is fair, safe, and easy. Why don’t more states use it?
David Roberts

Republicans are already treating Clinton’s presidency as illegitimate
Paul Waldman

Links of the Week - 11 November 2016

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I’m a Republican election lawyer. Here's why the election can’t be rigged.
Chris Ashly

A short history of white people rigging elections
Dara Lind

Trump should read George H.W. Bush’s gracious letter conceding the Oval Office to Bill Clinton
German Lopez

When Donald Trump says he may not concede, imagine what his voters are hearing
Dara Lind

Donald Trump vs. America
Jamelle Bouie

Is WikiLeaks Just a Stooge of the Kremlin?
Fred Kaplan

Trump’s rigged election talk is reaping what Republican leaders have sowed
Matthew Yglesias

America's founders screwed up when they designed the presidency. Donald Trump is exhibit A.
Sanford V. Levinson

Note to Donald Trump: This is why you can’t run government like a business
Andrew Rudalevige

Neutron Sunday
Donald Fagen

Links of the Week - 4 November 2016

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Seven Reasons The New Russian Hack Announcement is A Big Deal
Julia Ioffe

No, Trump, Canadians do not flee en masse for US health care
Julia Belluz

9/11 improved presidential transitions
Richard M. Skinner

How Does Obama Respond to Russia’s Cyberattacks?
Fred Kaplan

Donald Trump shows the opposite of “political correctness” isn’t free speech. It’s just different repression.
Dara Lind

Russia has weaponized the American press
Zack Beauchamp

Donald Trump’s unpatriotic campaign
Ezra Klein

Trump didn’t create the “rigged election” rhetoric. Republicans did.
German Lopez

There Is a Conspiracy to Rig the Election, and Donald Trump Is Part of It
Jamelle Bouie

Term limits are a bad idea
Lee Drutman

Links of the Week - 28 October 2016

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Maine could become the first state in the nation to have ranked-choice voting
Lee Drutman

Blame BP for Deepwater Horizon. But Direct Your Outrage to the Actual Mistake.
James B. Meigs

The last six days proved Donald Trump is dangerously unfit for the presidency
Ezra Klein

How the presidential transition process has evolved over time
Richard M. Skinner

We've been using the Gregorian calendar for 434 years. It’s still bizarre.
Brad Plumer

The Trans-Siberian Railway reshaped world history
Zack Beauchamp

Jimmy Carter changed presidential transitions forever
Richard M. Skinner

15 October Surprises That Wreaked Havoc on Politics
Taylor Gee

Donald Trump’s refusal to reveal his tax returns highlights a problem with economic theory
Robert Frank

Bill Clinton set a bad example with his transition
Richard Skinner

Links of the Week - 21 October 2016

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'Trust' Gains as a Fudge Factor in Economics
Noah Smith

The Secret Plan to Protect America’s Founding Documents During WWII
Stephen Puleo

The Falsity of False Equivalence
Paul Krugman

Government transfers to households: From 1947 to 1966 to now
The FRED Blog

Weapon of Self-Destruction
William Saletan

If Trump Disputes the Election, We Have No Good Way Out
Edward B. Foley

The question of what Donald Trump “really believes” has no answer
David Roberts

Donald Trump’s experts are basing his trade policy on a remarkably silly mistake
Matthew Yglesias

Beveridge curves
David Andolfatto

Confessions of a former neo-Confederate
William Black

Links of the Week - 14 October 2016

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Colin Kaepernick's Protest Is Working
Josh Levin

And now, a case of really bad Republican timing.
Matt O'Brien

Why Do Business Channels Ask former Executives about Economic Policy?
Bill McBride

The Violent, Racist Meaning of “Redemption”
Jamelle Bouie

How Breitbart Conquered the Media
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Why WikiLeaks hates Hillary Clinton
Zach Beauchamp

Gary Johnson Is Not Worth Any Liberal’s Protest Vote
Jim Newell

The Right Balance on Infrastructure Spending
Noah Smith

Why America should have more than 2 political parties
Mark Schmitt

The US government is trying to make Deutsche Bank pay for the financial crisis
Zach Beauchamp

Links of the Week - 7 October 2016

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Julian Assange Is Still a Creep
Rich Lowry

Negative investment?
The FRED Blog

Donald Trump has successfully exhausted our ability to be shocked
Matthew Yglesias

On the One Hand, the Media’s Coverage of the Trump–Clinton Forum Was a Disaster
Jim Newell

This one quote shows what angry white guys mean when they talk about government overreach
David Roberts

'We're the Only Plane in the Sky'
Garrett M. Graff

Don’t Worry, America: The 3 A.M. Phone Call Is a Myth
Tevi Troy

The Senator and the Mogul: A 9/11 Diary
Michael Kruse

An Anniversary of Shame
Michael Hirsh

What O. J. Simpson Means to Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Is Havana Don among the 47%?

It's interesting that the argument advanced by the Trump campaign to defend the fact that he has not paid federal income taxes for the past twenty years is that he's paid "property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes," given that the position of his party for the last several years has been that federal income taxes are the only taxes that matter when discussing an individual's social responsibility. This was at the heart of Mitt Romney's argument that 47% of American voters were leeches and layabouts. Like many aspects of the Trump candidacy, it will be interesting to see if this shift in policy will persist.

Links of the Week - 30 September 2016

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What White Catholics Owe Black Americans
Matthew J. Cressler

Kaepernick didn’t bring politics into sports. The NFL did that by playing the anthem.
Zack Beauchamp

Longtime Republican consultant: if black people voted Republican, voter ID laws wouldn't happen
German Lopez

Is Rudy Giuliani Losing His Mind?
Kevin Baker

Uber hours, and some Labor Day housecleaning
Jared Bernstein

Against transparency
Matthew Yglesias

America's First Civil War
Eric Herschthal

Sure, the U.S. and Russia often meddle in foreign elections. Does it matter?
Dov H. Levin

Desperately slamming Krugman: Columnist unfairly targeted for anti-Trump, pro-Hillary commentary
Bob Cesca

Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery
Jon Schwarz

Links of the Week - 23 September 2016

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Someone made a map of the world’s wind. It’s weirdly fun to play around with.
German Lopez

Revisionist History: My Little Hundred Million
Malcolm Gladwell

Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media
Matthew Yglesias

The bogus claims of the NRA's favorite social scientist, debunked
Evan DeFilippis & Devin Hughes

Don't Be Scared of a Health-Insurance Public Option
Noah Smith

This food bank doesn’t want your junk food. Good.
Julia Belluz

Red tape at the FDA doesn’t explain America’s high drug prices
Sarah Kliff

Donald Trump is never going to stop being Donald Trump
Matthew Yglesias

The freedom-lover's case for the welfare state
Will Wilkinson

This conspiracy theory explains how Trump was able to take over the GOP
Matt O'Brien

Links of the Week - 16 September 2016

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EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care
Sarah Kliff

Breitbart, explained: the conservative media giant that wants Trump to burn down the GOP
Zach Beauchamp

This Princeton health economist thinks Obamacare’s marketplaces are doomed
Sarah Kliff

EpiPen is trying to win over critics by issuing "coupons." Don't be fooled.
Sarah Kliff

When workers don’t get paid sick days, everyone else is more likely to get sick
Danielle Paquette

Americans are supposed to turn to police after a murder. In black communities, they often can't.
German Lopez

Two out of three ain’t bad
The Economist

Olympians Don’t Need a Tax Break
Adam Chodorow

The Greatest Presidential Comebacks
Josh Zeitz

When Poll-Watching Crosses the Line
Jocelyn Benson