22 April 2017

Links of the Week - 21 April 2017

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How the West Can Defend Itself From Putin’s Russia
Yascha Mounk

The health care bill could be Donald Trump’s Iraq War
Ezra Klein

The Media Have Finally Figured Out How to Cover Trump’s Lies
Will Oremus

How Paul Ryan played Donald Trump
Ezra Klein

Why Trump forced a health care vote
Lee Drutman

Donald Trump is extremely bad at making deals
Ezra Klein

The myth of Paul Ryan was shattered today
Dylan Matthews

The Ugly History Behind Trump’s Attacks on Civil Servants
Landon R. Y. Storrs

The Greatest Trick the Government Ever Pulled Was Convincing Us We Aren’t Already on Welfare
Chris Ladd

The Year Nixon Fell Apart
John A. Farrell

American health care can be free market or cheap. It can’t be both.
Ezra Klein

Nunes Can’t Be Trusted
William Saletan

The myth of the 70,000-page federal tax code
Dylan Matthews

70 days in, Donald Trump’s presidency is flailing
Ezra Klein

The Return of the King of Debt
Reihan Salam

One of Trump’s central problems? He doesn’t get policy.
Andrew Prokop

Hate Makes Us Weak
William Saletan

Why Republicans Can’t Find the Big Voter Fraud Conspiracy
Lisa Rab

Are Economic Statistics Fake News?
Dan Sichel

No More Roads
Henry Grabar

Trump Isn’t Nixon
Isaac Chotnier

The real reasons Trump can’t work with Democrats
Matthew Yglesias

When Economics Failed
Noah Smith

Trump's Normality Problem
Rich Lowry

What Donald Trump gets wrong (and right) about the unemployment rate
Matthew Yglesias

Drug Test the Rich
Adam Chodorow

Trump finds his niche: fixing problems that no longer exist
Matt O'Brien

How Are Assad and Kim Still in Power?
Joshua Keating

On the Need for (At Least) Five Classes of Macro Models
Olivier Blanchard

This is how the next World War starts
David Wood

“Calculated misery”: how airlines profit from your miserable flying experience
Alex Abad-Santos

UBI & I
Jared Bernstein

Return of the Madman Theory
Fred Kaplan

The American economy isn’t actually becoming more concentrated
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump’s big problem is he doesn’t know what he’s talking about
Matthew Yglesias

The GOP’s problem on health reform is they’ve spent years hiding their real position
Ezra Klein

Tax Cuts Don't Work the Way Free Marketers Expect
Noah Smith

Why the 101 model doesn't work for labor markets
Noah Smith

How to fix the Supreme Court
Ezra Klein

Thank Your Taxes
Adam Chodorow

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15 April 2017

Links of the Week - 14 April 2017

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How to avoid a Trump tweetstorm, for a fee
Axios

The Congressional Budget Office, explained
Andrew Prokop

White supremacism is not nationalism
Noah Smith

Trump’s budget chief says Obama fudged jobs data. If that were true, he’d be able to prove it.
Max Ehrenfreund

This White House Lies About Everything
William Saletan

Why does Donald Trump demonize cities?
Will Wilkinson

Thoughts on Will Wilkinson's post on cities
Noah Smith

Why Trump Can’t Let Go of His Bogus Wiretapping Claim
James D. Robenalt

The health care debate we’re not having, but should be
Ezra Klein

In Praise of Intolerance
Alan Levinovitz

The coal industry is sick — and it's terminal
Axios

Uber's toxic culture of rule-breaking, explained
Matthew Yglesias

The FBI probe into Trump and Russia is huge news. Our political system isn’t ready for it.
Zack Beauchamp

Republicans Don’t Want to Find Out What Happened With Russia
William Saletan

Why does Trump keep making promises he can’t keep? The secret lies in his past.
Paul Waldman

Trump Is Defining the Presidency Down
Mark A. Patterson

Donald Trump has lost the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board
Jacob Gardenswartz

Trump Has a Debt Ceiling Problem
Daniel Gross

Will Preet Run?
David Freedlander

Eliminating Essential Health Benefits could turn Trumpcare into a subsidy machine for scams
Matthew Yglesias

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08 April 2017

Links of the Week - 7 April 2017

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The Donald Trump Show is getting stale and boring
Matthew Yglesias

Kenneth Arrow, 1921-2017
Jonathan Wight

Forget the Border Levy. Here's the Really Big GOP Tax Idea.
Noah Smith

What is unemployment? : There is more to it than not working
The FRED Blog

The Great White House Freak-Out
Michelle Goldberg

WikiLeaks’ Attack on U.S. Intelligence
Fred Kaplan

Sorry, Mr. President, but Obama couldn't simply order the FBI to tap your phones
Yochi Dreazen

Eternally frustrated by "liberal" universities, conservatives now want to tear them down
Nicole Hemmer

If Jason Chaffetz wants to compare healthcare to iPhones, let’s do it the right way
Christopher Ingraham

Republicans are now paying the price for a years-long campaign of Obamacare lies
Matthew Yglesias

Business Protections Need an Expiration Date
Noah Smith

This chart is a powerful indictment of our current health-care system
Christopher Ingraham

How Nixonian Is Donald Trump?
Tim Naftali

Can Obama Sue Trump for Libel?
John Culhane

The Deep State Is a Figment of Steve Bannon’s Imagination
Loren DeJonge Schulman

A Nixon biographer explains how Trump compares
John A. Farrell

How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying
Alex Finley

Anti-empiricism is not humility
Noah Smith

Is the Republican health plan designed to fail?
Ezra Klein

Sean Spicer’s appalling answer about economic data shows how far we’ve lowered the bar for Trump
Matthew Yglesias

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01 April 2017

Links of the Week - 31 March 2017

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“His presidency is a massive skyscraper built atop a shifty foundation”
Sean Illing

Why go after Milton Friedman?
Noah Smith

It’s Bad
Michelle Goldberg

CPAC’s Identity Crisis
Nicole Hemmer

'He’s Going to Be an Enabler'
Nancy Cook

Trump’s Great Pyramid
Michele Celariea

The Insurgent in the White House
James Kitfield

How Trump Can Learn to Love Leaking
Jack Shafer

Release Michael Flynn’s FBI Interview
William Saletan

Donald Trump is dangerous when he’s losing
Ezra Klein

Not every presidential scandal is Watergate. Here are three other useful analogies.
Andrew Prokop

The 'Death Tax' Deserves to Live
Noah Smith

Unemployment versus Underemployment: Assessing Labor Market Slack
John Robertson

Farewell to Kenneth Arrow, a Gentle Genius of Economics
Larry Summers

A brief guide to Kevin Hassett, Trump's new chief economist
Dylan Matthews

Judicial originalism as myth
Eric J. Segall

Money for Nothing
Fred Kaplan

‘He’s a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager’
Michael Kruse

Trump just blamed the military for the botched Yemen raid. That's a disgrace.
Phillip Carter

Can't we all just get along?, Econometrics edition
Noah Smith

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25 March 2017

Links of the Week - 24 March 2017

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How American Politics Went Insane
Jonathan Rauch

The Prophet of Profit
Ray Fisman

Business Success Versus Government Success
Miriam Wasserman

Is a strong dollar good or bad? An answer for Donald Trump.
Matthew Yglesias

I asked 8 experts if we’re in a constitutional crisis. Here’s what they said.
Dylan Matthews

Gary Cohn and the Participation Rate
Bill McBride

This is what incompetence looks like
Paul Waldman

The cost of crisis: why stock fees rise when markets slip
Jason Wrobel

President Trump Has Done Almost Nothing
Zachary Karabell

Trump said he would hire the best people. Instead we got the Trump administration.
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump wants to know who's causing all these problems. It’s Donald Trump.
Dylan Matthews

I've been visiting Russia for 22 years. I've never seen Russians prouder than under Putin.
Lisa Dickey

Who Told Flynn to Call Russia?
Daniel Benjamin

Austerity was a bigger disaster than we thought
Matt O'Brien

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: working-class whites
Tracy Jan

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18 March 2017

Links of the Week - 17 March 2017

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Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

Josh Levin

David Frum

Nick Spitzer

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11 March 2017

Links of the Week - 10 March 2017

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04 March 2017

Links of the Week - 3 March 2017

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25 February 2017

Links of the Week - 24 February 2017

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18 February 2017

Links of the Week - 17 February 2017

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Jack Balkin

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11 February 2017

Links of the Week - 10 February 2017

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Joshua Zeitz

Steve Usdin
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04 February 2017

Links of the Week - 3 February 2017

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