Links of the Week - 19 October 2018

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'A Kind Of Vague Hostility': Michael Lewis On How Trump Loyalists Run Agencies
Michael Lewis

The “dollar auction” theory can help explain the Kavanaugh chaos
Lee Drutman

Brett Kavanaugh proves the Never Trump movement was a sham all along
Zack Beauchamp

It’s Time for Democrats to Play Hardball With the FBI
Matthew Miller

‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team 
Michael Lewis

Links of the Week - 12 October 2018

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The GOP Is Clueless About Women. Here’s What the Party Needs to Learn.
Matt Latimer

Everything is going right for the Federal Reserve. It needs to change what it’s doing.
Matt O'Brien

How Salt Helped Win the Civil War
Anne Ewbank

Why It’s Time to Rename the Russell Office Building
Joshua Zeitz

Trump Said What About Kim Jong-un?
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 5 October 2018

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Why Russians Keep Visiting Mariia Butina in Prison
Alex Finley

Kavanaugh and Trump are part of a larger crisis of elite accountability in America
Matthew Yglesias

Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s looming legitimacy crisis
Zack Beauchamp

A former spy explains why Manafort is crucial to Mueller’s Russia investigation
Alex Finley

Why US public transportation is so bad — and why Americans don’t care
Aditi Shrikant

Links of the Week - 28 September 2018

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The 2008 crisis really did start off worse than the Great Depression
Matt O'Brien

Why God Is Laughing at Brett Kavanaugh
John F. Harris

Republicans can’t hold Kavanaugh or anyone else accountable — because Trump is president
Matthew Yglesias

No, I Will Not Debate You
Laurie Penny

The Kavanaugh assault allegations are a reminder that Democrats were smart to push Al Franken out
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 21 September 2018

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The White House Tried to Take Credit for the Economy. It Wasn’t Very Convincing.
Jordan Weissmann

The financial crisis and the foundations for macroeconomics
Larry Summers

Special report: We're safer 10 years after financial crisis
Felix Salmon

The Great Recession's uneven recovery
Kim Hart

How the Great Recession fueled for-profit colleges
Stef W. Kight

Links of the Week - 14 September 2018

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In 1921, Canada developed a secret plan to invade the U.S.
Frank Jacobs

Republicans Were Mad at Twitter for Banning Alex Jones. Then They Met Him.
Will Oremus

A simple plan for saving the Supreme Court
Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman

Most jobs created since the recession have been low-paying
Steve LeVine & Naema Ahmed

Is the housing price-rent ratio a leading indicator?
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 7 September 2018

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We Already Know Trump Is Betraying His Country
William Saletan

Donald Trump talks like a mob boss — and reminds us he has no idea what he’s doing
Matthew Yglesias

The 1974 Playbook
Fred Kaplan

John McCain, who died at 81, explained
Matthew Yglesias

John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the rise of reality TV politics
Laura McGann

Links of the Week - 31 August 2018

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A few comments on the Labor Force Participation Rate
Bill McBride

Most international borders are surprisingly young
Frank Jacobs

The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we’ve failed to prosecute white-collar crime
Matthew Yglesias

The moral implications of luck
David Roberts

Donald Trump Was Too Incompetent to Pick a Fed Chair He Agreed With, and Now He’s Mad About It
Jordan Weissmann

Links of the Week - 24 August 2018

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Bitcoin is still a total disaster
Matt O'Brien

Has wage growth been slower than normal in the current business cycle?
The FRED Blog

“Socialism” vs. “capitalism” is a false dichotomy
 Will Wilkinson

Why so many people who need the government hate it
Sean Illing & Suzanne Mettler

What John Dean Has to Say About the NYT’s Blockbuster Don McGahn Story
Isaac Chotiner

Links of the Week - 17 August 2018

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Liberals Don’t Have to Defend Sarah Jeong’s Tweets
Yascha Mounk

Corporate profits versus labor income : Risk & reward versus slow & steady
The FRED Blog

Racism is a problem of white elites, and Kris Kobach proves it
Dylan Matthews

New York’s Uber Cap Is Good News for Basically Everyone
Henry Grabar

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade
New York magazine

Links of the Week - 10 August 2018

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Why Trump Has Such a Soft Spot for Russia
Andrew Sullivan

Russian Intervention
William Saletan

American white people really hate being called “white people”
David Roberts

We’re Never Going to Get Our “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?” Moment
Rebecca Onion

New Report: Uber and Lyft Riders Aren’t Giving Up Their Cars—They’re Giving Up Transit
Henry Grabar

What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis
Noah Smith

Trump Might Cut Taxes Without Congress. It’s His Ultimate Heist for the Rich.
Jordan Weissmann

Amusing ourselves to Trump
Ezra Klein

The Cryptocurrency Game With a $9 Million Prize
Arvind Dilawar

How 2,000 year old roads predict modern-day prosperity
Christopher Ingraham

Links of the Week - 3 August 2018

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A simple analogy for understanding Trump’s Putin meeting
Zack Beauchamp

The “do what you want” theory of politics
Dylan Matthews

Accusing Trump of Treason Will Only Help Him
Fred Kaplan

Socialists Will Need to Be 10 Times Smarter Than Republicans to Get Taken Seriously in Washington
Jordan Weissmann

Donald Trump and the crisis of elite impunity
Dylan Matthews