Links of the Week - 3 February 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

After intelligence leaks about Russian blackmail, Trump compares America to Nazi Germany
Zack Beauchamp

How Trump Rewrote the Scandal Playbook
Ronald A. Klain

The Trump administration says it has to have private help to fund roads and bridges. It's wrong.
Timothy B. Lee

The 2 most important words in Trump’s press conference
Matthew Yglesias

Obama, optimist to the end, hands off the presidency to a classless man
Paul Waldman

Our Own Worst Enemy
Reihan Salam

Ben Carson Knows Nothing
Jamelle Bouie

Make HUD Great Again
Reihan Salam

Trump’s bullying of businesses is good politics, but bad economics
Jim Tankersley

Infrastructure Delusions
Paul Krugman

Links of the Week - 27 January 2017

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Republicans: you have to pass our health care plan to find out what’s in it
Ezra Klein

Could an NFL Team Miss the Playoffs With a 13–3 Record?
Josh Levin

The WikiLeaks-Russia connection started way before the 2016 election
Zack Beauchamp

Julian Assange Is A Russian Front-Man, Not A Freedom Fighter
Tom Nichols

How Henry Kissinger Conspired Against a Sitting President
Zach Dorfman

Is Mike Flynn Behind Trump’s Scornful Treatment of the Intelligence Community?
Fred Kaplan

Sometimes It's Hard to Explain Market Failures
Noah Smith

Thoma: "Here's what really caused the housing crisis"
Bill McBride

America will miss Barack Obama's decency
Ezra Klein

Democrats should write their own “terrific” Obamacare replacement
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 20 January 2017

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Manhattan could get by with 78% fewer cabs
Matt McFarland

Scenarios for the future of racial politics in America
Noah Smith

The 2018 midterms are nearly two years away. Start paying attention now.
Andrew Prokop

Why Trump Would Be Crazy to Give Putin What He Wants
Evelyn N. Farkas

Trump wants “federal help” to stop Chicago gun violence. He should consider federal gun control.
German Lopez

What the King of Hawaii Can Teach Us About Trump
Rob Goodman

Trump is siding with Julian Assange against the US intelligence community
Zack Beauchamp

Why Is Trump Siding With Assange Over the CIA?
Aki Peritz

America’s Abdication
Yascha Mounk

Will Donald Trump Be FDR or Jimmy Carter?
Reihan Salam

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