Links of the Week - 7 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Trevor Noah on the Philando Castile verdict: the NRA should “be losing their goddamn minds”
Caroline Framke

Is Michael Flynn Cooperating with the FBI?
Jeremy Stahl

There’s No National Solution for the Housing Crisis

Henry Grabar

Why the White House Is Reading Greek History

Michael Crowley

How Trump defends his Goldman Sachs advisers: "I just don't want a poor person"

Dylan Matthews

The Senate health bill takes what Americans hate about Obamacare and makes it worse
Ezra Klein

What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.
Rebecca Onion

‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’
Bruce Bartlett

Grover Norquist complained his daughter had to pay sales tax on her guitar. Twitter said he had forgot a few things.
Elizabeth Winkler

Tick, Tick, Tick
Michelle Goldberg

Links of the Week - 30 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely
Ezra Klein

How Congress Failed to Plan for Doomsday
Garrett Graff

An Abdication of Duty
Fred Kaplan

Why Jeff Sessions Won’t Give a Straight Answer
William Saletan

Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid
Debra Bruno

Mueller Is Coming for Trump
Mark Joseph Stern

Watergate Fueled Conspiracy Theories, Too
David Greenberg

How to Deal With North Korea
Mark Bowden

The US just waded deeper into the Syrian civil war
Alex Ward

No Strategy in Syria
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 23 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Donald Trump’s response to Comey shows how he weaponizes bullshit
Ezra Klein

What Trump Doesn’t Know Will Hurt Us
Fred Kaplan

Watching the Detectives
Katrina Gulliver

A tweet from Trump’s legal team shows he doesn’t understand what being president is about
Matthew Yglesias

We’re Not Even In Kansas Anymore
Paul Krugman

This profile of Trump's budget director has an unintentionally revealing anecdote
Tara Golshan

Trump friend: He’s thinking about firing Robert Mueller
Andrew Prokop

Sessions Needs to Talk
William Saletan

The problem with privatization
Larry Summers

Russia’s Power Trip
Fred Kaplan

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

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

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

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

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