Links of the Week - 25 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

This might be Ted Cruz’s worst idea
Matt O'Brien

For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Stanford money
Dylan Matthews

Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up
Barry Ritholtz

Donald Trump's candidacy is going to realign the political parties
Lee Drutman

Ted Cruz Is Stuck in the 1980s
Reihan Salam

The eerie math that could predict terrorist attacks
Ana Swanson

Obamacare didn’t pave the way for Donald Trump. The GOP’s response to it did.
Ezra Klein

The Axe Files: Eliot Spitzer [audio]
David Axelrod

Truer Costs of Trade Liberalization
Jonathan Wight

How Bernie Sanders convinced me about free college
Matthew Yglesias

“The greatest human right of all”: why Australia’s former leader confiscated 650,000 guns
Libby Nelson

Return of the Undeserving Poor
Paul Krugman

Donald Trump is making conservatives turn on the white working class
Matthew Yglesias

The Craziest Conventions in U.S. History
Josh Zeitz

Donald Trump’s rise is the financial crisis of politics
Lee Drutman

Links of the Week - 18 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq
Max Fisher

The Fed’s interest payments to banks
Ben S. Bernanke and Donald Kohn

Who will Obama nominate to replace Scalia? Here’s how to think about it.
Michael Bailey

The Tragedy of Antonin Scalia
Eric Posner

This Is the Dirtiest Presidential Race Since ’72
Joseph Cummins

Moderate Democrats helped Wall Street avoid regulation in the '90s. They're doing it again.
Mike Konczal

How the world’s great oil powers became so powerless
Chico Harlan

Why are the deaths of sitting Supreme Court justices so rare?
Scott Boddery

I dare you to read this and still feel good about tipping
Roberto A. Ferdman

The Book That Changed Campaigns Forever
Scott Porch

It’s Long Past Time to Close Guantánamo
Fred Kaplan

A comment on the Labor Force Participation Rate
Bill McBride

America’s two ur-choropleths
Kieran Healy

Important new findings on inflation and unemployment from the new ERP
Jared Bernstein

Let's not get nostalgic about Jeb Bush
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 11 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Is it time to rethink recycling?
Amy Westervelt

The Ideal Subway Seating Arrangement? No Middle Seats
Keith Barry

How the United States built a welfare state for the wealthy
John Sides

Let’s get rid of drive-throughs
Emily Badger

The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich
Emily Badger

Why Liberals Loved to Hate Antonin Scalia
Dahlia Lithwick

Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Lawrence H. Summers
Heather Boushey

Disabled people are allowed to work for pennies per hour — but maybe not for much longer
Lydia DePillis

Why it’s time to get serious about Supreme Court term limits
Christopher Ingraham

What happens when a Supreme Court justice dies in an election year? Nobody really knows.
Max Ehrenfreund

Republicans might end up wishing they had compromised with Obama over Scalia’s replacement
Ezra Klein

John Oliver's glorious takedown of voter ID laws
via German Lopez

The Whale That Nearly Drowned The Donald
Michael Crowley

The Next Justice? It’s Not Up to Us
Garry Wills

North Carolina is the latest state to find welfare recipients rarely use illegal drugs
Victoria M. Massie

Links of the Week - 4 March 2016

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The sneaky language today's politicians use to get away with racism and sexism
German Lopez

6 degrees of separation is too much — Facebook says we're all 3.5 degrees apart
Libby Nelson

Donald Trump really did try to take an elderly widow's house for a limousine parking lot
Timothy B. Lee

In Defense of Funny Diagrams (Wonkish)
Paul Krugman

The rise of humankind, in one mesmerizing map
Ana Swanson

What Republicans and Bernie Sanders get wrong about Wall Street
Matt O'Brien

What Hillary Clinton should say — but can’t — about her Wall Street speaking fees
Paul Waldman

Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President
Eric Posner

Flint Wasn’t Allowed Democracy
Richard Schragger

Yes, the cyclicalists really won the bet
Noah Smith

The risk of an unintended war with Russia in Europe, explained in one map
Max Fisher

Bernie Sanders is right: Hillary Clinton praising Henry Kissinger is outrageous
Zack Beauchamp

Antonin Scalia's death makes the 2016 presidential election a referendum on the Supreme Court
Dylan Matthews

Replacing Antonin Scalia will be a profound test of the American political system

Ezra Klein

The most radical thing the Black Panthers did was give kids free breakfast

Victoria M. Massie

Links of the Week - 26 February 2016

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"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