Links of the Week - 16 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


7 world maps show the highs and lows of American exceptionalism
Frank Jacobs

Cop Stoppers
William Saletan

Trump Comments Show Disdain for the Rule of Law
James Hohmann

No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here
Tyler Cowen

How Billionaires Learned to Love Populism
Amy Chua

Trump’s tariff decision is one of the worst fears about his presidency come to life
Zack Beauchamp

Study: Uber and Lyft Drivers Make Median Wage of $3.37 Per Hour
Aaron Mak

How Not to Become Jared Kushner in 4 Easy Steps
Samantha Vinograd

Trump’s commerce secretary: tariffs raising car prices $175 is “trivial”
Tara Golshan

Uber May Have Imposed 12-Hour Driving Limits, but It’s Still Pushing Drivers in Other Troubling Ways
Alex Rosenblat

Links of the Week - 9 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Heritage of Hate
Daniel Horwitz

Trump’s plan does nothing for America’s real infrastructure problem
Matthew Yglesias

The New Graveyard of Empires?
Fred Kaplan

U.S. GDP Expenditure Components
David Andolfatto

Traffic congestion is taking a toll on Boston. Should Boston take a toll on congestion?
Nik DeCosta-Klipa

Trump hasn’t changed the Republican Party. It never cared about the deficit.
Matt O'Brien

Build Transit Where It’s Most Effective, Not Where It’s Least Expensive
Vanshnookenraggen

Inside the CIA’s Plot to Kill Fidel Castro—With Mafia Help
Thomas Maier

I Cut, You Choose
Will Riedel & Anish Sarma

The next big bad bet might be lurking on Wall Street — and we just got a glimpse of it
Emily Stewart

Links of the Week - 2 March 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

What is the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX)?
Zachary Basu

The robots v. robots trading that has hijacked the stock market
Steven Pearlstein

Mattis Goes Nuclear
Fred Kaplan

Here’s what war with North Korea would look like
Yochi Dreazen

The Party of Carter Page
William Saletan

Fiscal Policy and the Price-Level
David Andolfatto

Has Anyone Seen the President?
Michael Lewis

Panicking about the stock market? You’re thinking about it the wrong way.
Roger Lowenstein

In 1968, Memphis sanitation workers went on strike. In 2018, their fight continues.
P. R. Lockhart

Why there’s so much chaos in the Trump administration
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 23 February 2018

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The Backward Logic of the Nunes Memo
Jonathan Chait

Survival at All Costs
Phillip Carter

It's Time for Wall Street to Give Up Its Love Affair With the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Sean Williams

Why Rising Wages Scare the Heck Out of Investors
Jordan Weissmann

Please Don’t Panic About the Stock Market
Jordan Weissmann

Trump administration faces audit of proposed rule that could let bosses keep tips
Danielle Paquette

What David Brooks Misunderstands About Abortion
Cheryl Axelrod

The Smearing of Christopher Steele
John Sipher

Don’t kid yourself. The future is bleak.
Matt O'Brien

In defense of Social Security Disability Insurance
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 16 February 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law
Yascha Mounk

Bitcoin Is the New Gold
Noah Smith

Forged Under Fire—Bob Mueller and Jim Comey’s Unusual Friendship
Garrett M. Graff

How the GOP Went Crazy
Kurt Andersen

A close reading of the Nunes memo shows how sketchy it is
Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 9 February 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The real reason the Nunes memo matters
Zack Beauchamp

Defending the Indefensible
William Saletan

I Was There for Nixon’s Last State of the Union
Fred Kaplan

I’m a Republican. Why Is My Party Gaslighting America?
Amanda Carpenter

This was the scariest part of Trump’s State of the Union
Zack Beauchamp

Links of the Week - 2 February 2018

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Are Democrats becoming more like Republicans?
Ezra Klein

Democrats didn’t cave on the shutdown
Ezra Klein

Bank of America Just Reminded Us of Why We Need Postal Banking
Jordan Weissmann

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise?
Jordan Weissmann

What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ’s Great Society
Joshua Zeitz

Links of the Week - 26 January 2018

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Trump’s “shithole countries” comment exposes the core of Trumpism
Zack Beauchamp

How to deal with the age of celebrity candidates
Lee Drutman

Congressional Republicans think Donald Trump’s sloth and ignorance is a feature, not a bug
Matthew Yglesias

Trump is making the racist subtext text
Dara Lind

These Vibrant Maps Reveal the World’s Hidden Geographies
Sarah Laskow

Links of the Week - 19 January 2018

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The economy is normal again
Matthew Yglesias

Monopolies May Be Worse for Workers Than for Consumers
Noah Smith

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read
Ezra Klein

How to Make Metro Great Again
Matthew Yglesias

There is no separation of powers without divided government
Lee Drutman

The Other Terrifying Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis
George Perkovich

Must-Reads of 2017: Debunking Southern Mythmaking
Albert R. Hunt

Bitcoin is the new Middle Ages
Matt O'Brien

Beyond the gossip, Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury reveals a president in crisis
Ezra Klein

Why Republicans Love Dumb Presidents
Jonathan Chait

Links of the Week - 12 January 2018

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Venezuela Is Living a Hyperinflation Nightmare
Noah Smith

What “affordable housing” really means
Matthew Yglesias

How We Killed Expertise
Tom Nichols

Start Worrying When Investors Borrow to Buy Bitcoins
Noah Smith

Do It Yourself
Jon D. Michaels

The real cost of the Republican tax bill
Matthew Yglesias

The uninsured are overusing emergency rooms — and other health-care myths
Carolyn Y. Johnson

What Elon Musk Doesn't Get About Urban Transit
Jarrett Walker

The easiest way to tell that bitcoin is a huge bubble
Matt O'Brien

Uber, but for addressing congestion externalities
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 5 January 2018

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Are Democrats suckers for holding their own to high standards?
David Roberts

Baby-Sitting the Economy
Paul Krugman
We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America
Matthew Yglesias
The Roy Moore Debacle Should Shock the GOP Into Changing Its Ways
Reihan Salam

Bitcoin: 'This is a casino, not an investment'
Axios

Net neutrality isn’t the only way to keep the internet fair. It’s just the only way in America.
Emily Stewart

Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
Jane Coaston

States’ Rights No More
Adam Skaggs

Conservative Attacks Sap IRS Oversight of Charities
Political Wire

The simple reason bitcoin will never be a currency
Matt O'Brien

Links of the Week - 29 December 2017

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The Dollar General CEO just accidentally made clear how screwed up the economy is
Dylan Scott

Orrin Hatch just made the Republican agenda startlingly clear
Dylan Scott

Democrats need to get a grip about the budget deficit
Matthew Yglesias

Labor Department set to ok wage theft from some tipped workers
Conscience Warrior

John Conyers Was An Icon. Then He Lost His Way.
Zack Stanton

Stronger Labor Unions Could Do a Lot of Good
Noah Smith

The Free World’s Landlord
Fred Kaplan

Why Doug Jones’s narrow win is not enough to make me confident about American democracy
Ezra Klein

Sorry, but Economics Isn't 'Astrology for Dudes'
Noah Smith

Daddy Gets His Brain Back
Michael Lewis