Links of the Week - 13 January 2017

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Putin’s Way of War
Matt Tait

Analytics of Trade Deficits and Manufacturing Employment (Very Wonkish)
Paul Krugman

Tariffs and the Trade Balance (Wonkish)
Paul Krugman

Political scientist: North Carolina “can no longer be classified as a full democracy”
Dylan Matthews

Trump's Trade Chief Makes a Rookie Mistake
Noah Smith

Greed Springs Eternal
Paul Krugman

The Problem With Trump’s Admiration of General Patton
Arthur Allen

If We Knew What Things Cost, They Might Cost Less
Noah Smith

What the ‘Godfather of Populism’ Thinks of Donald Trump
Richard Linnett

Putin’s Real Long Game
Molly McKew

Links of the Week - 6 January 2017

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I’ve spent 15 years covering national security. I’ve never seen anything like the Russia hack.
Yochi Dreazen

The Most Useful Guide to Resisting Donald Trump
Jim Newell

Trump’s budget director has some awfully strange ideas about economic policy
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump’s new regulation czar is a conflict-of-interest disaster
Matthew Yglesias

9 questions about Russia you were too embarrassed to ask
Matthew Yglesias

The United States might be the next Argentina
Matt O'Brien

How James Comey and Loretta Lynch made Donald Trump the president of the United States
Paul Waldman

Partisanship is a helluva drug
Matthew Yglesias

What, Exactly, Is Trump Getting at With His Comments About Nukes and an Arms Race?
Fred Kaplan

How to use taxes to close the trade deficit
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 30 December 2016

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Cities Are Cutting Public Transportation Because They Think Uber Will Fill the Gap. They’ll Regret It.
Henry Grabar

North Carolina’s GOP Is Closing Ranks
Jamelle Bouie

Larry Kudlow is usually wrong
Jared Bernstein

Why David Brock’s plan to create a “Breitbart of the left” is destined to fail
Nicole Hemmer

The GOP coup in North Carolina previews what we’re going to see everywhere
Paul Waldman

The Only Enemies Donald Trump Can See Are His Fellow Americans
William Saletan

This Time, Obama's Calm in a Crisis Isn't Helping
Michelle Goldberg

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending..."
The Ezra Klein Show

Election surprises and exchange rates
The FRED Blog

Why we should be terrified of Donald Trump’s decision-making process
Paul Waldman

Links of the Week - 23 December 2016

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How the U.S. Could Respond to Russia’s Hacking
Fred Kaplan

The GOP’s Russia Hawks Are Not Your Friends, Democrats
Jim Newell

The real reason Trump's denial that Russia hacked Democrats’ emails is so worrying
Andrew Prokop

Russia Didn’t Hack the U.S. Election
Theodore R. Johnson

Trump’s Ungovernment
Jamelle Bouie

A woman who called Michelle Obama an ape has her job back. This is part of a pattern.
Jenée Desmond-Harris

What’s Good for Exxon Is Bad for the Country
Fred Kaplan

Thomas Schelling, Methodological Subversive
Rajiv Sethi

When to Send an Investing Model Into Retirement
Noah Smith

Price growth at the tails
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 16 December 2016

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Poor Gretchen on Fannie and Freddie
Bill McBride

What Trump Didn't Learn From the Financial Crisis
Noah Smith

A key Trump donor could make a ton of money from Trump's housing policy
Timothy B. Lee

Farewell Harry Reid, the Least Fashionable Man in Politics
Jim Newell

A Better Theory to Explain Financial Bubbles
Noah Smith

Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest
Matthew Yglesias

How Will Trump React to the CIA’s Claim That Russia Was Trying to Help Him Win?
Fred Kaplan

How Trump Is Repeating the Mistakes of Iraq
William Saletan

Reince Priebus Is Either Lying or Delusional
Josephine Wolff

When Daily Intelligence Briefings Prevented a Nuclear War
Josh Zeitz

Links of the Week - 9 December 2016

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Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won
Ezra Klein

Fidel Castro, Master Madman
Michael Dobbs

An American “Redemption”? Trumpism fits a pattern of backlash against social progress

Bradley Proctor

How the electoral college gerrymanders the presidential vote
Christopher Ingraham

Republicans allowed voter paranoia to flourish. They got a president-elect who embraces it.
Dara Lind

Just How Badly Can the Trump Administration Corrupt the United States?
Ray Fisman & Miriam Golden

Everything mattered: lessons from 2016's bizarre presidential election
David Roberts

Mad Dog or Warrior Monk? Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Defense Doesn’t Fit Any Stereotypes.
Fred Kaplan

An econ theory, falsified
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 2 December 2016

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Winning an election does not entitle one to upend basic values
Larry Summers

Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways.
Baratunde Thurston

Obama reckons with a Trump presidency
David Remnick

The Bitter Feud Behind the Law That Could Keep Jared Kushner Out of the White House
Josh Zeitz

Infrastructure Build or Privatization Scam?
Paul Krugman

These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott

Democrats won the most votes in the election. They should act like it.
Ezra Klein

The Axe Files with David Axelrod: 98 - Larry Summers
David Axelrod

The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s.
Josh Zeitz

Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media
Charles Sykes

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