Links of the Week - 3 November 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

We Have to Ration Health Care
Vishal Khetpal

Certifiable Nonsense
Fred Kaplan

When people go around efficiency-boosting regulations, market failures happen, dontcha know?
Conscience Warrior

Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies
Paul Krugman

Subsidies, Spite, and Supply Chains
Paul Krugman

The Worst Defense
Fred Kaplan

Impeachment Was Designed for Someone Like Trump
Barbara Radnofsky

Trump’s refusal to take responsibility is a deep moral failure
Dylan Matthews

Taylor and His Rule Are Not What the Fed Needs
Noah Smith

No Bush, No Trump
Reihan Salam

Links of the Week - 27 October 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

This headline is a nudge to get you to read about Nobel economist Richard Thaler
Dylan Matthews

Defending Thaler from the guerrilla resistance
Noah Smith

A Nobel for Humility in Economics
Noah Smith

Rationality and Rabbit Holes
Paul Krugman

Sorry, Trump, but Talking to North Korea Has Worked
Fred Kaplan

Census 2020: How it’s supposed to work (and how it might go terribly wrong)
Heather Long

The real fix for gerrymandering is proportional representation
Matthew Yglesias

Trump’s Nuclear Meltdown
Fred Kaplan

Steve Bannon’s Enemy Isn’t the Republican Party
Reihan Salam

The NRA Defends the Indefensible
William Saletan

Links of the Week - 20 October 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Nightmare Scenario
Phillip Carter

There Is No “Hope” With Mass Shootings
Jamelle Bouie

The Underminer in Chief
Fred Kaplan

Meet Kevin Warsh, the man who Trump may tap to wreck the American economy
Matthew Yglesias

It is fossil fuels, not renewable energy, most supported by US public policy
David Roberts

A Watershed Moment
William Saletan

We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct
Christopher Ingraham

American professor wins Nobel Prize in economics for trying to understand bad human behavior
Heather Long

What’s a urinal fly, and what does it have to with winning a Nobel Prize?
Christopher Ingraham

Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for making economics more human — and more real
Roger Lowenstein

When people go around efficiency-boosting regulations, market failures happen, dontcha know?

Apparently, putting more cars on the road, and encouraging them to drive around looking for a reason to be on the road, causes more congestion. I'd not seen that one coming.

Perhaps there's a way to cap how many 'ride-sharing' vehicles are out there. We could make little metal plates with numbers on them, and require the 'ride-share' drivers to affix them in some manner to their vehicles. It's sort of amazing to me that no one has thought of this.


https://www.axios.com/study-shows-ride-hailing-is-likely-increasing-street-traffic-2496568908.html

Links of the Week - 13 October 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Handwaving on health care
Noah Smith

A House Republican explains why deficits don’t matter anymore
Matthew Yglesias

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thanked Hugh Hefner
Carrie Pitzulo

How a Populist Sells Tax Cuts for the Rich
William Saletan

Something in the Air
Fred Kaplan

The Real Moneyball Effect: Our Fetishization of Data
Julia Rose West

Shifts Get Real: Understanding the GOP’s Policy Quagmire
Paul Krugman

Vince Lombardi Would Be Proud
Johnny Smith

Puerto Rico is all our worst fears about Trump coming real
Matthew Yglesias

Give Me Grant: An American Musical
David Plotz

Links of the Week - 6 October 2017

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Happy Equinox! Here’s how quickly the days are getting shorter where you live.
Christopher Ingraham

Yes, the Republican Party has become pathological. But why?
Lee Drutman

Why Do You Care How Much Other People Work? Revisited
Paul Krugman

Trump’s Ugly Flag Football Game
Jack Shafer

Congress Is Broken. Bring Back Pork.
Kevin Drum

Black Athletes Are Only Loved When They Are Harmless
Jonathan Eig

Thank You for Your Service, Whoever You Are
Amy Schafer

Déjà Vu in North Korea
Fred Kaplan

When Presidents Get Angry
Mark Perry

The Vietnam War Transcript Trump Needs to Read
Jeff Greenfield

Links of the Week - 29 September 2017

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Honey, I Shrunk the Oval Office
Zachary Karabell

Want a Better Health Care System? Check Out Japan
Noah Smith

Photos: Russia holds one of its biggest war games since the Cold War
Alex Ward

The economy really is broken — but we know how to fix it
Matthew Yglesias

Trump’s Dark Vision for the World
Fred Kaplan

Why Democrats Should Love the GOP Health Care Plan
Reihan Salam

Our Demagogue
William Saletan

The margin of stupid
Noah Smith

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when
Umair Irfan

6 things you need to know to understand the Jewish High Holy Days
Tara Isabella Burton

Links of the Week - 22 September 2017

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Yes, Trump is an “independent”
Hans Noel

The Man the Presidency Changed
Scott S. Greenberger

It’s Time to Talk to North Korea
Fred Kaplan

Why Isn’t Hillary Clinton Even Angrier?
Michelle Goldberg

When the U.S. Almost Went to War With North Korea
Gordon F. Sander

What the Heck Is Threatcasting?
Brian David Johnson

The Loneliest President
Michael Kruse

A Collegial Reminder to Harvard That Henry Kissinger Leaked Secrets Which May Have Gotten 21,000 Americans Killed
Ben Mathis-Lilley

Independent? Populist? Trump’s Only True Ideology Is Ego-Driven Impetuosity
Max Boot

Mark Lilla Is Getting Identity Politics All Wrong
Joshua Zeitz

Links of the Week - 15 September 2017

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Heads, I Win. Tails, You Forget We Had a Bet.
Dan Gardner

We need political parties. But their rabid partisanship could destroy American democracy.
Lee Drutman

We Need to Move Beyond Election-Focused Polling
Andrew Gelman

“I Never Claimed I Was F***ing Sitting Bull”
Wes Enzinna

Lots of Liquidity Isn't Always Better
Noah Smith

What America would look like if it guaranteed everyone a job
Dylan Matthews

Russia-linked hackers are infiltrating the US power grid: report

Zeeshan Aleem

A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been
Michael Grunwald

The First White President
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Myth of Deep Throat
Max Holland

Links of the Week - 8 September 2017

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"Theory vs. Data" in statistics too
Noah Smith

Regime Change in Charlottesville
Adam Goodheart

I've studied the history of Confederate memorials. Here's what to do about them.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Steve Bannon believed in Trumpism. Donald Trump doesn’t.
Ezra Klein

Why Stephen K. Bannon was such a failure
Matt O'Brien

Why There Are No Nazi Statues in Germany
Joshua Zeitz

Trump’s big mistake on health care was not realizing Republicans were lying
Matthew Yglesias

The real reason Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio
Dara Lind

Trump’s Revenge
Michelle Goldberg

Ugly History Shouldn’t Be Beautiful
Fred Kaplan

Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 years. How is that possible?
Christopher Ingraham

The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
David Roth

You’ll Miss the Administrative State When It’s Gone
Fred Kaplan

I Was a Mercenary. Trust Me: Erik Prince’s Plan Is Garbage.
Sean McFate

Trump’s Real Campaign
William Saletan

Links of the Week - 1 September 2017

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Meet Alex, the Russian Casino Hacker Who Makes Millions Targeting Slot Machines
Brendan I. Koerner

Markets Don't Work for Everything
Noah Smith

Firing Jeffrey Lord Doesn’t Fix CNN’s Jeffrey Lord Problem
Justin Peters

Workers Are Going Galt
Daniel Gross

What Happened in Charlottesville Is All Too American
Joshua Zeitz

Why Trump Can’t Say the Obvious
Jeff Greenfield

The Trump Tango is tiresome and pointless
Matthew Yglesias

The huge problem with comparing Lee and Davis to Washington and Jefferson
Matthew Yglesias

The Breitbart Presidency
Rich Lowry

The Myth of the Alt-Left
Sam Kriss

Links of the Week - 25 August 2017

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Where's the inflation?
David Andolfatto

A monetary-fiscal theory of inflation
David Andolfatto

When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election
John A. Farrell

Tolerance is not a moral precept
Yonatan Zunger

Rise of the Generals
Michelle Goldberg

Everyone Is Biased (Except White People)
Dahlia Lithwick

You're not imagining it: the rich really are hoarding economic growth
Dylan Matthews

Businesses Are Finally Realizing That Trump Causes “Uncertainty”
Daniel Gross

Big business wants you to think a tax cut for big business will stop outsourcing
Matthew Yglesias

The Madman and the Bomb
Garrett Graff