Links of the Week - 21 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The Republican health bill is stuck in a valley of incoherence
Ezra Klein

What the stock market’s rise under Trump should teach Democrats
Mike Konczal

When Was The Golden Age Of Conservative Intellectuals?
Paul Krugman

The real reason single-payer health care is hard to pay for
Matthew Yglesias

Formerly True Theories (Wonkish and Self-Indulgent)
Paul Krugman

An NYT report indicates Donald Trump, Jr. tried to collude with the Russian government
Matthew Yglesias

“Borders on treason”: George W. Bush’s former ethics lawyer blasts Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting
German Lopez

Donald Trump Jr. may well have committed a federal crime, experts say
Zack Beauchamp

This Town Melts Down
Mark Leibovich

Trump won by running as a moderate Republican
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 14 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

This is how Trumpism died
Ezra Klein

Trump just made a humiliating economic error in front of South Korea’s president
Zeeshan Aleem

How Gotham Gave Us Trump
Michael Kruse

The special ingredient that helps explain Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic war on Qatar
Zeeshan Aleem

America, the diminished
Ezra Klein

North Korea isn’t crazy. It’s insecure, poor, and extremely dangerous.
Zack Beauchamp

The $15 Question
Jordan Weissman

I Found HanAssholeSolo’s anti-Semitic Posts. Then, the Death Threats Started.
Jared Yates Sexton

The Secret Goal of Trump’s Voting Commission
Mark Joseph Stern

Rick Perry offered a ‘little economics lesson.’ It didn’t go so well.
Max Ehrenfreund

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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