Links of the Week - 27 May 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Was Ted Cruz lying about Donald Trump 4 months ago, or is he lying now?
Matthew Yglesias

The media needs to clearly call out Donald Trump on his bigotry
German Lopez

Subprime Loans Are Back
Helaine Olen

Panasonic (Yes, Panasonic) May Have Created the World’s Best Weather Model
Eric Holthaus

When Rhetoric Distorts Statistics
Zachary Karabell

Ten ways to tell you might be sitting next to an economist
Buttonwood

You can't talk about Trump's rise without talking about racism
Matthew Yglesias

The Obama administration is honoring Henry Kissinger today. It shouldn’t be.
Zack Beauchamp

This is what Trump and Sanders get wrong about free trade
Guian McKee

The Incompetent, Race-Baiting Fraud (and the Man Running to Replace Him as President)
Jamelle Bouie

Links of the Week - 20 May 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Noncompete Clauses Make Your Economy Sick
Noah Smith

A Mess of Contradictions
Fred Kaplan

The sinister, secret history of a food that everybody loves
Jeff Guo

John Boehner just confirmed everything liberals suspected about the Republican Party
Ezra Klein

How to persuade rich people to pay more in taxes: remind them how lucky they are
Robert Frank

Amtrak turns 45 today. Here's why American passenger trains are so bad.
Matthew Yglesias

The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
Michael Lewis

Why Trump’s ‘woman card’ attack on Clinton is sheer lunacy
Paul Waldman

On Cochrane's dream of equity-financing banking
David Andolfatto

Preserving community character is impossible
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 13 May 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Baseline models
Noah Smith

Why Donald Trump dominates the Northeast and is poised to win big on Tuesday
Matthew Yglesias

Economics and Self-Awareness
Paul Krugman

This is an incredible visualization of the world's shipping routes
Brad Plumer

Growing a Nation Won't Always Grow Its Economy
Noah Smith


Police versus Prisons
Alex Tabarrok

You're Making Your Financial Adviser Rich
Noah Smith

Everyone Worries Too Much About 'Black Swans'
Noah Smith

America Isn't Going Broke
Noah Smith

How Finance Took Over the Economy
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 6 May 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Joe Biden was a good vice president. The Democratic candidates should learn from this.
Paul Waldman

Harriet Tubman once staged a sit-in to get $20. The Treasury just gave her all of them.
Dara Lind

Hamilton stays on the $10 bill!
Ben Bernanke

John Kasich says DC residents can't vote because they vote for Democrats
Matthew Yglesias

The dangerous politics of hard promises
Mark Schmitt

The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren’t Keeping Up
Robert Solow

On this issue, Donald Trump knows a lot more than other Republicans. Sad!
Matt O'Brien

Putting a price on carbon is a fine idea. It's not the end-all be-all.
David Roberts

Interest Rates and Aggregate Demand Revisited
David Andolfatto

Slavery in the United States
Bill Rankin

Links of the Week - 29 April 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

What the Clinton administration got right and wrong about the '90s economy
Matthew Yglesias

Time magazine's new cover trolls economically literate people with absurd scare tactics
Matthew Yglesias

The Black Death's utter destruction of 14th-century Europe, in one scary GIF
Zack Beauchamp

The District is about to declare its independence — from Congress
Aaron C. Davis

This is the worst argument about the national debt you’ll ever find
Matt O'Brien

A guide to one of the most sensational claims Time magazine has ever made
Max Ehrenfreund

The New Beyond
David Warsh

We Are so S—ed. Econ 1-Level Edition
Brad DeLong

Our Well-Regulated Militia
Alexander Chee

The Putin myth: the Russian leader isn't nearly as powerful as you think
Mark Galeotti

Links of the Week - 22 April 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

A plodding dollar: The recent decrease in the velocity of money
The FRED Blog

Donald Trump is sloppy about policy details, but precise at managing party factions
Jonathan M. Ladd

The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you
Christopher Ingraham

The real tax subsidy for homeowners has nothing to do with mortgage interest
Matthew Yglesias

The very good reason taxes are due on April 18, not April 15, this year
Libby Nelson

Paul Ryan isn't a moderate alternative to Donald Trump. He's not a moderate at all.
Dylan Matthews

Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. So why do other states restrict it?
Timothy B. Lee

Why crude oil prices keep taking us by surprise
Brad Plumer

For an inheritance tax
Chris Dillow

Paul Ryan, David Petraeus and the ‘White Knight’ Problem
Jack Shafer

Links of the Week - 15 April 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Why Hillary Clinton Should Be Worried About Ross Perot
David S. Bernstein

The Supreme Court: The Nightmare Scenario
Richard Primus

An Apple bank is a fun idea, but it's almost certainly not happening
Matthew Yglesias

Why you’re not looking at Europe when you stare out from an Atlantic beach
Libby Nelson

Corporate profits are near record highs. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Larry Summers

Poor Whites Trashed
Jamele Bouie

The biggest thing that Washington gets wrong about sanctions
Max Fisher

The $15 minimum wage sweeping the nation might kill jobs — and that’s okay
Lydia DePillis

The best way to pay for an infrastructure surge is to not pay for it at all
Matthew Yglesias

Nest is about to deliberately break one of its own products. That's unfair to customers.
Timothy B. Lee

The world’s flags, in 7 charts
Ana Swanson

Links of the Week - 8 April 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

American politics has reached peak polarization
Lee Drutman

The spread of US slavery, in one haunting map
German Lopez

Reflections on Macroeconomics Then and Now
Stanley Fischer

Twilight of the neoconservatives
Max Fisher

Why North Korea loves to threaten nuclear war (but will never actually do it)
Max Fisher

Trade, Trump, and Downward Class Warfare
Mark Kleiman

Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will)
Jeremy Shapiro

I did my best to understand Donald Trump's foreign policy. Here's what I came up with.
Max Fisher

Why I'm boycotting TurboTax this year
Dylan Matthews

The US once had more than 130 hijackings in 4 years. Here’s why they finally stopped.
Libby Nelson

Links of the Week - 1 April 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The difference between the Republican and Democratic parties has never been clearer
Ezra Klein

Irish terrorist Gerry Adams whines on Twitter about US airport security
Dylan Matthews

Stop with the zombie lies: No, Social Security is not ‘going broke.’
Paul Waldman

Why daylight saving time isn’t as terrible as people think
Ana Swanson

#690: All In [audio]
Planet Money

Grand Old People Party
Reihan Salam

Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies
German Lopez

What Republican attacks on Obama’s trip to Cuba really tell us
Paul Waldman

Five simple formulas that capture today’s economic challenges and solutions.
Jared Bernstein

When Castro Met Nixon
Fred Kaplan

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