Links of the Week - 26 February 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

"They are riding a tiger that they cannot control”: Pakistan and the future of Afghanistan

Jennifer Williams

The Fox News debate showed how Republicans created the Trump problem now destroying them

Max Fisher

The GOP Candidates Are Shockingly Uninformed About Foreign Policy

Fred Kaplan

America’s Long History of Trashing ‘New York Values’
Kevin Baker

I'm from New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire primary has to go
Dylan Matthews

Freedom: Three Varieties and a Caveat
Peter Dorman

Apple may owe Ireland $19 billion, but Ireland doesn’t want the money. Here’s why.
Henry Farrell

The unique power of poverty to turn young boys into jobless men
Emily Badger & Christopher Ingraham

Four shades of inflation risk
The FRED Blog

Iowa As A Media Focal Point
Paul Krugman

Amazon is reportedly planning to open hundreds of bookstores. Here's why.
Matthew Yglesias

Economists say houses are a bad investment. Here's why they're wrong.
Timothy B. Lee

How Trump Did It
Eli Stokols & Ben Schrekinger

The Iowa caucuses give white people outsized power over the presidency
Dylan Matthews

Paul Ryan to Tea Party: You are the problem
Paul Waldman

Links of the Week - 19 February 2016

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What do you give executives who bankrupted a coal company and screwed over its retirees? Bonuses!
David Roberts

When Ted Cruz Wanted to Be Part of the Establishment
Shane Goldmacher & Daniel Lippman

Potemkin Ideologies
Paul Krugman

The Republican establishment can fix its problems by picking a name out of a hat
Joshua Tucker

Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism

Ezra Klein

The Constitution was designed to weed out demagogues. Now it encourages them.

Andrew Sabl

Could Americans elect a non-religious president? Bernie Sanders wants to find out.

Paul Waldman

The unsexy truth about why the Arab Spring failed
Amanda Taub

“The dam is about to break”: why 2016 could be a very bad year for Afghanistan
Zack Beauchamp

ISIS is getting stronger in Afghanistan: how it happened and why it matters
Jennifer Williams

Links of the Week - 12 February 2016

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Why we fight about Iran
Max Fisher

Department of Labor sends warning shot to clients of temp staffing agencies
Lydia DePiliis

Why the poor do better on these simple tests of financial common sense
Max Ehrenfreund

There's one huge problem with National Review's anti-Trump editorial
Matthew Yglesias

Hillary Clinton faces the same challenge that George H.W. Bush faced in 1988
Jonathan M. Ladd

A Progressive Way to End Corporate Taxes
Dean Baker

How to Talk to Bill Belichick

Andrew Kahn and Josh Levin

Vladimir Putin is not in charge of Syria, never has been, and never will be
Max Fisher

City Upon A Hill: A History Of American Exceptionalism [audio]
BackStory

Book Review: "Economics Rules"
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 5 February 2016

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Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard
Harold Pollack

Bill O’Reilly will flee to Ireland if Sanders is elected. He’s in for a shock
Henry Farrell

TINA and the ACA
Paul Krugman

Obama’s Republican Foreign Policy Critics Don’t Understand How the World Works
Fred Kaplan

Die Hard Conservatives
Paul Krugman

Bank Failures by Year
Bill McBride

Lessons From Vermont
Paul Krugman

America’s emptiest places: 42% of the land, 1% of the people
Christopher Ingraham

The Theory of Everything and Then Some
David Auerbach

101ism
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 29 January 2016

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This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering
Christopher Ingraham

Joe Scarborough's Twitter meltdown is everything wrong with how we talk about Iran
Max Fisher

Why the subtle sexism of the Founding Fathers might disqualify Ted Cruz for president
Max Ehrenfreund

The single-payer debate we should be having
Matthew Yglesias

Oil Goes Nonlinear
Paul Krugman

The 7 charts you need to understand California’s water prospects

Nathanael Johnson

The problem with parking

Emily Badger

Boston: Truth and Complicity

Garry Wills

The GOP debate on Iran was American foreign policy at its most juvenile — and dangerous

Max Fisher

What ‘The Big Short’ Gets Wrong
Michael Grunwald

Links of the Week - 22 January 2016

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Retiring members of Congress illustrate the problems with the campaign finance system
Lee Drutman

Mutual Funds Enrich the Financial Services Industry at Your Expense

Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack

It is absolutely scandalous and ridiculous that American immigrants can't become president
Dylan Matthews

The ways you’re most likely to die, at every age
Ana Swanson

“Audit the Fed” is not about auditing the Fed
Ben Bernanke

Feeling stuck in your job? Blame management consulting.
Lydia De Pillis

Making sense of Donald Trump
John Patty

TPP not equal to “free trade”
Jared Bernstein

How the Klan Got Its Hood
Alison Kinney

Bernie Sanders has a bold, simple idea for improving public education
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 15 January 2016

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Marco Rubio’s terrible new idea
Paul Waldman

Making And Using Models
Paul Krugman

What did you do in the currency war, Daddy?
Ben Bernanke

The real roots of Sunni-Shia conflict: beyond the myth of "ancient religious hatreds"
Max Fisher

Beyond oil: the US-Saudi alliance, explained
Zack Beauchamp

The single most important fact for understanding North Korea

Max Fisher

How Can Banks Get Away With Charging Such High Fees?

Eric Posner

One graphic that explains how brokered conventions work — and why they're so unlikely

Sarah Frostenson

Saudi Arabia's latest panicky move: a possible IPO of its state-owned oil company

Matthew Yglesias

Charles Koch complains that he doesn’t have enough political power

Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 8 January 2016

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Can we stop pretending that Republicans care about the deficit now?
Paul Waldman

Why hipsters all look alike
Jeff Guo

What a real D.C. streetcar looks like
Emily Badger

Donald Trump Isn’t the Biggest Narcissist in the GOP Field. Ted Cruz Is.
Curt Anderson

Long Road to Hell: America in Iraq [audio]
Fareed Zakaria GPS

The elusive 2% inflation target
The FRED Blog

The Big Short tells a complicated story, but the Great Recession is very simple
Matthew Yglesias

Jon Meacham: Live at Politics & Prose
Live at Politics & Prose

The Fed and Financial Reform – Reflections on Sen. Sanders op-Ed
Larry Summers

Low interest rate policy and secular stagnation
David Andolfatto

Links of the Week - 1 January 2016

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What really drives you crazy about waiting in line (it actually isn’t the wait at all)
Ana Swanson

Profiling
Jonathan Wight

The Senate is so poorly designed it would be literally illegal for a US state to copy it
Dylan Matthews

The Enduring Relevance of “Manias, Panics, and Crashes”
Joseph Joyce

The Fed's own data contradicts its case for raising interest rates
Timothy B. Lee

The key to understanding Ben Carson's weird campaign? Glenn Beck.
Dylan Matthews

A Brief History Behind the Street Names of Washington, D.C.
Ghosts of DC

Marco Rubio's rise may be a little too House of Cards for his colleagues
Matthew Yglesias

Why medicine costs so much in America
Julia Belluz

This is a crucial and underappreciated point about why defeating ISIS is so difficult
Max Fisher

Links of the Week - 25 December 2015

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One depressing quote perfectly sums up our relationship with gun violence
The Economist, via Christopher Ingraham

America’s biggest housing program is run by the IRS, and it’s a huge giveaway to rich people
Dylan Matthews

The Price We Pay for Liberty?
Mark Joseph Stern

"This is a political choice we make"
Ezra Klein

Why the U.S. should pay Irish drug prices if Pfizer wants to pay Irish tax rates
Dr. Peter B. Bach

No, you don’t have an absolute right to own guns
Emily Badger

A telling — and disturbing — anecdote about conservative media from a House Republican
Matthew Yglesias

This one anecdote perfectly explains today’s GOP
Greg Sargent

The Passive-Aggressive Monetary Two-Step
Paul Krugman

The Second Amendment Is Not Absolute
Sonja West

Links of the Week - 18 December 2015

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Why the media struggles to deal with Donald Trump’s race-baiting
Paul Waldman

Japanese promises (a reply to John Cochrane)
Noah Smith

Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Ethics
Jonathan Wight

The segregation-era travel guide that saved black Americans from having to sleep in their cars
Dara Lind

This 2002 PBS debate over the Iraq War is both weirdly prescient and totally bonkers
Dylan Matthews

Thanksgiving, 1963
Josh Zeitz

Why Wall Street's campaign to enrich shareholders could be bad for everyone else
Timothy B. Lee

Obamacare’s biggest political problem: the people it helps don’t vote, but its critics do
Ezra Klein

Avars, Arabs, and History
Paul Krugman

The real-life election of 1800 was even wilder than Hamilton the musical lets on
Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 11 December 2015

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27 hilariously bad maps that explain nothing
Max Fisher

This chart shows something's gone wrong with the US housing market
Matthew Yglesias

Tax the (upper) middle class, please
Mark Schmitt

Take a Tour of Battlefields, Protests, and Prisons With These Photography Legends
Mark Murrmann

What is the “natural rate” for u6?
Jared Bernstein

Ordinary Americans can show Congress how to save the U.S. Postal Service
Steven Kull

ISIS, a history: how the world's worst terror group came to be
Zack Beauchamp

You’re more likely to be fatally crushed by furniture than killed by a terrorist
Andrew Shaver

Why Gronk can't be stopped
Matt Bowen

Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero. [video]
Johnny Harris and Matthew Yglesias