Links of the Week - 8 June 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


NFL owners are stifling speech, but it’s not called “no-platforming” when you’re rich and own the platform
Matthew Yglesias

There is no productivity crisis, experts say
Steve LeVine

Forget about broad-based pay hikes, executives say
Steve LeVine

California’s top-two primary chaos, explained
Andrew Prokop

Here’s who to blame for rising gasoline prices
Amy Harder

California could avoid the chaos of the “top two” primary with ranked-choice voting
Lee Drutman

Trump Crony Proves Widespread Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist
Mark Joseph Stern

America has local political institutions but nationalized politics. This is a problem.
Lee Drutman

The media's undeniable pro-Trump bias
Tim Miller

Trump Pardoned Dinesh D’Souza to Troll Liberals
Jacob Heilbrunn

Links of the Week - 1 June 2018

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All politicians “game” the system. The question is how?
Lee Drutman

Trump vs. the “Deep State”
Evan Osnos

Liberals, It’s Not About Being Nice
Osita Nwanevu

The D.C. Metro Almost Had a Very Cool Abstract Map
Mark Byrnes

The Subway Map That Rattled New Yorkers
Alice Rawsthorn

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
Matthew Stewart

Kim in Control
Fred Kaplan

How Baby Boomers Broke America
Steven Brill

Backfire Hurricane
William Saletan

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 25 May 2018

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American democracy has faced worse threats than Donald Trump
Ezra Klein

The False Promise of Term Limits
Jamelle Bouie

How to be the next Trump
Jim VandeHei

Why are we taking Donald Trump’s Korea diplomacy seriously?
Matthew Yglesias

Cruelty is the defining characteristic of Donald Trump’s politics and policy
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 18 May 2018

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The Case for Redistribution
Tyler Zimmer

Why Mueller Has to Expose Trump’s Crooked Business Empire
Jonathan Chait

Trump Has Wrecked One of the Most Successful Arms-Control Deals in Modern History
Fred Kaplan

How a Hole Punch Shaped Public Perception of the Great Depression
Aida Amer

Grifter or Grafter?
Jacob Weisberg

Links of the Week - 11 May 2018

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Econ Grapples With What Causes Recessions
Noah Smith

The Pain We Still Need to Feel
Jamelle Bouie

What the Koch Brothers’ Money Buys
Mark Joseph Stern

New York City Street Parking Is Preposterously Corrupt
Henry Grabar

New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls
Anna Kusmer

Links of the Week - 4 May 2018

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James Comey isn’t the hero we deserve. But he’s the hero we need
Matthew Yglesias

The real reason the Republican tax cut isn’t going to work
Matt O'Brien

Yes, Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility. But that will (and should) change.
Mark Schmitt

What Is Denuclearization Anyway?
Fred Kaplan

Need Work? Maybe That's a Job for Government
Noah Smith

Index Funds Are Not the Problem
Felix Salmon

A Lynching Memorial
Campbell Robertson

The Myth That Markets Get Prices Right Won’t Die
Noah Smith

Stop Talking About Race and IQ
William Saletan

Is Robin Hanson America’s Creepiest Economist?
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 27 April 2018

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Democrats Shouldn’t Give in to White Racism
Jamelle Bouie

The emerging plan to save the American labor movement
Dylan Matthews

The Outlook for Public Transit Isn't All That Bad
Noah Smith

The Bell Curve is about policy. And it’s wrong.
Matthew Yglesias

House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics
Matthew Yglesias

Paul Ryan paved the way for Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party
Dylan Matthews

Econ Majors Graduate With a Huge Knowledge Gap
Noah Smith

Trump is drowning in scandal. He can’t focus on Syria.
Max Boot

Chilling maps of lynchings in 1930s America
Frank Jacobs

On trade, Trump either doesn’t understand the basics facts or he doesn’t care
Matt O'Brien

Links of the Week - 20 April 2018

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It’s Time to Stop Yammering About Liberal Bias
Osita Nwanevu

Employers are increasingly using their workers as lobbyists. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Trump-era politics is a surreal nightmare and we can’t wake up
Matthew Yglesias

It’s harder for Democrats to gerrymander effectively
Matthew Yglesias

Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability
Jonathan Chait

Trump's Latest Domestic Spending Plot May Be To Ignore The Law
Stan Collender

Tired of winning yet? You're not alone.
Matt Bai

Econ 101 No Longer Explains the Job Market
Noah Smith

Workers don’t have much say in corporations. Why not give them seats on the board?
Dylan Matthews

More and more companies have monopoly power over workers’ wages. That’s killing the economy.
Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, and Glen Weyl

Links of the Week - 13 April 2018

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Mick Mulvaney’s Latest Scandal Makes Him Look Like a Craven Hypocrite
Jordan Weissmann

No Strength, No Peace
Fred Kaplan

It’s Time to Panic Now
Fred Kaplan

John Bolton and Gina Haspel Are the Consequences of Our Failure to Reckon With the Bush Years
Joshua Keating

Make Them Pay
Heidi Li Feldman

How the NRA derails gun control debates
Carlos Maza

Inflation and unemployment
David Andolfatto

How high and low you can go? Here's a vertical map of Earth
Frank Jacobs

Who Made the Worst Decision of the Iraq War?
Fred Kaplan

Why Would the Atlantic Hire Kevin Williamson?
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 6 April 2018

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Trump wants to liberalize health data. Easier said than done.
Sarah Kliff

The real reason the U.S. spends twice as much on health care as other wealthy countries
Carolyn Y. Johnson

Larry Kudlow Is an Insufferable Wall Street Hack. Let’s Hope Trump Picks Him to Replace Gary Cohn Anyway.
Jordan Weissmann

Larry Kudlow solves what Trump believes is his real problem
Ezra Klein

Larry Kudlow, Trump’s new top economic adviser, explained
Dylan Matthews

The Artifice of the Deal
Matt Bai

A Prefabricated Tragedy
Matthew N. Eisler

Why Money Managers Are Paid So Much Is a Mystery
Noah Smith

The myth of “forcing people out of their cars”
Matthew Yglesias

Celebrating 50 years of the Chrystie Street Connection
Vanshnookenraggen

Links of the Week - 30 March 2018

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How states with loose oversight export crime guns nationwide
Christopher Ingraham

“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”
David Corn & Michael Isikoff

Summit Surprise
Fred Kaplan

Martin Shkreli Is Going to Jail and I Can’t Even Bring Myself to Enjoy It
Jordan Weissmann

Rough Trade
William Saletan

Trump’s Perversion
William Saletan

Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America
Gregory Smithsimon

John Bolton, the ultrahawk rumored to be Trump’s next national security adviser, explained
Zack Beauchamp

Trump’s VA Is Purging Civil Servants
Isaac Arnsdorf

Was the Poisoning of a Former Russian Spy a Chemical Weapons Attack?
Joshua Keating

Links of the Week - 23 March 2018

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The Soul-Crushing Legacy of Billy Graham
Bob Moser

What Donald Trump understands about conservatism
Ezra Klein

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
Jane Mayer

Blacks Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s
Antoinette Harrell

Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations
David Roberts

It’s not just Gary Cohn. Trump’s White House is in a staffing crisis.
Ezra Klein

There Is Not a Single Good Reason to Deregulate Banks Right Now. Democrats Are Helping It Happen Anyway.
Jordan Weissmann

Why Isn’t Trump President for Life Yet?
Yascha Mounk

What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
David Corn & Michael Isikoff

Uber Better Not Be the Future of Work
Noah Smith