Links of the Week - 16 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Donald Trump is exploiting the fatal flaw of the two-party system
Lee Drutman

Has anyone told Donald Trump that he runs the government?
Ezra Klein

Like expensive bank bailouts? You’ll love Republicans’ Financial CHOICE Act.
Jonah Crane

Trump Can Commit All the High Crimes He Wants. Republicans Aren’t Going to Impeach Him.
Jonathan Chait

Donald Trump’s presidency is an American crisis
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 9 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure
Noah Smith

Chaos Theory
Isaac Chotiner

Collusion Is Cool
William Saletan

Americans Sure Seem to Like Universal Health Care
Noah Smith

Will Republicans impeach Trump?
Lee Drutman

Paying Inmates Minimum Wages Helps the Working Class
Noah Smith

Donald Trump and the 3 “drain the swamp” fever dreams of American politics
Lee Drutman

Why Do They Hate Her?
Joshua Zeitz

The mystery of the 2016 election was its normalcy
Ezra Klein

It's Smart to Worry About ETFs
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 2 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

A Budget Warning
Larry Summers

The 6 million people the White House believes can balance its budget
Ana Swanson

Forcing out unwanted FBI directors: a brief, messy history
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Why Republicans can't fix health insurance
Matthew Yglesias

The Health Care Debate Is About Money
Michael Grunwald

JFK’s Russian Conspiracy
Tim Naftali

General McMaster, Step Down—and Let Trump Be Trump
Thomas Ricks

The Bullshitter-in-Chief
Matthew Yglesias

Making Enemies Out of Friends
Fred Kaplan

Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
The Ezra Klein Show

Links of the Week - 26 May 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The suddenly relevant debate about whether a president can be prosecuted, explained
Dylan Matthews

Trump’s Justice
Mark Joseph Stern

Say It Ain’t Joe!
Jim Newell

What Donald Trump Needs to Know About Bob Mueller and Jim Comey
Garrett M. Graff

When Congress Almost Ousted a Failing President
Joshua Zeitz

What Could a Mysterious U.S. Spy Know About the JFK Assassination?
Philip Shenon

Why Staying Put Was McMaster’s Most Patriotic Act
Mark Perry

Mr. Complicit
William Saletan

The case for impeaching Trump — and fast
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump is destroying his own presidency
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 19 May 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

North Korea is more rational than you think
Zeeshan Aleem

The Political Isolation of Jim Comey
Garrett M. Graff

Trump Wanted a Public Execution
Phillip Carter

The largest health care subsidy: employer coverage
Axios

Will Trump Be the First to Politicize the FBI?
Garrett M. Graff

How William F. Buckley, Jr., Changed His Mind on Civil Rights
Alvin Felzenberg

When JFK Won by Losing
Thomas Oliphant & Curtis Wilkie

Links of the Week - 12 May 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

American Airlines gave its workers a raise. Wall Street freaked out.
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump’s absurd 100th day week was his presidency in miniature
Ezra Klein

Jimmy Kimmel’s Misguided View of Politics
Isaac Chotiner

Donald Trump Doesn't Know Why the Civil War Began. Most Americans Don't Know How It Ended.
Tim Murphy

America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust
Andrea Pitzer

The Curse of Jackie Robinson
Seth Maxon

Republicans’ plan to protect sick people has a long history of not protecting sick people
Matt O'Brien

Will Baumol, whose famous economic theory explains the modern world, has died
Timothy B. Lee

Flat Phills, all around
Jared Bernstein

The GOP Game Plan for Defending Trumpcare
William Saletan

Links of the Week - 5 May 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Widespread scalping is a sign of poor revenue management by event organizers
Andris Strazds & Thomas Grennes

If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth
Matthew Yglesias

James Comey’s Real Problem
William Saletan

Unstrategic Impatience
Fred Kaplan

Donald Trump Is a Terrible Negotiator
Seth Stevenson

The Only Way Back
Michelle Goldberg

The Moderate’s Case Against Trump
William Saletan

America Could Look Like North Carolina by 2020. Yikes.
Mark Joseph Stern

5 great presidential starts — and 5 historically bad ones
Nicole Hemmer

All Those Bubble Sightings Turned Out to Be Mirages
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 28 April 2017

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The Week the World Almost Ended
Nate Jones

Sectoral and Occupational Trends in the U.S. Labor Market
David Andolfatto

Will the Trump backlash nudge American politics back toward normalcy?
Mark Schmitt

You Go to War With the Army You Inherit
Fred Kaplan

The Options for Impeaching Trump
Jacob Weisberg

Still a Factor
Isaac Chotiner

The Mysterious Case of the Wayward Aircraft Carrier
Phillip Carter

The All-Spin Zone
Justin Peters

What if America Voted Like France?
Jeff Greenfield

How the Financial Collapse Steeled Gary Cohn for the White House
William D. Cohan

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

Links of the Week - 14 April 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

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

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

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