Links of the Week - 14 April 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

How to avoid a Trump tweetstorm, for a fee
Axios

The Congressional Budget Office, explained
Andrew Prokop

White supremacism is not nationalism
Noah Smith

Trump’s budget chief says Obama fudged jobs data. If that were true, he’d be able to prove it.
Max Ehrenfreund

This White House Lies About Everything
William Saletan

Why does Donald Trump demonize cities?
Will Wilkinson

Thoughts on Will Wilkinson's post on cities
Noah Smith

Why Trump Can’t Let Go of His Bogus Wiretapping Claim
James D. Robenalt

The health care debate we’re not having, but should be
Ezra Klein

In Praise of Intolerance
Alan Levinovitz

The coal industry is sick — and it's terminal
Axios

Uber's toxic culture of rule-breaking, explained
Matthew Yglesias

The FBI probe into Trump and Russia is huge news. Our political system isn’t ready for it.
Zack Beauchamp

Republicans Don’t Want to Find Out What Happened With Russia
William Saletan

Why does Trump keep making promises he can’t keep? The secret lies in his past.
Paul Waldman

Trump Is Defining the Presidency Down
Mark A. Patterson

Donald Trump has lost the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board
Jacob Gardenswartz

Trump Has a Debt Ceiling Problem
Daniel Gross

Will Preet Run?
David Freedlander

Eliminating Essential Health Benefits could turn Trumpcare into a subsidy machine for scams
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 7 April 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The Donald Trump Show is getting stale and boring
Matthew Yglesias

Kenneth Arrow, 1921-2017
Jonathan Wight

Forget the Border Levy. Here's the Really Big GOP Tax Idea.
Noah Smith

What is unemployment? : There is more to it than not working
The FRED Blog

The Great White House Freak-Out
Michelle Goldberg

WikiLeaks’ Attack on U.S. Intelligence
Fred Kaplan

Sorry, Mr. President, but Obama couldn't simply order the FBI to tap your phones
Yochi Dreazen

Eternally frustrated by "liberal" universities, conservatives now want to tear them down
Nicole Hemmer

If Jason Chaffetz wants to compare healthcare to iPhones, let’s do it the right way
Christopher Ingraham

Republicans are now paying the price for a years-long campaign of Obamacare lies
Matthew Yglesias

Business Protections Need an Expiration Date
Noah Smith

This chart is a powerful indictment of our current health-care system
Christopher Ingraham

How Nixonian Is Donald Trump?
Tim Naftali

Can Obama Sue Trump for Libel?
John Culhane

The Deep State Is a Figment of Steve Bannon’s Imagination
Loren DeJonge Schulman

A Nixon biographer explains how Trump compares
John A. Farrell

How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying
Alex Finley

Anti-empiricism is not humility
Noah Smith

Is the Republican health plan designed to fail?
Ezra Klein

Sean Spicer’s appalling answer about economic data shows how far we’ve lowered the bar for Trump
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 31 March 2017

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“His presidency is a massive skyscraper built atop a shifty foundation”
Sean Illing

Why go after Milton Friedman?
Noah Smith

It’s Bad
Michelle Goldberg

CPAC’s Identity Crisis
Nicole Hemmer

'He’s Going to Be an Enabler'
Nancy Cook

Trump’s Great Pyramid
Michele Celariea

The Insurgent in the White House
James Kitfield

How Trump Can Learn to Love Leaking
Jack Shafer

Release Michael Flynn’s FBI Interview
William Saletan

Donald Trump is dangerous when he’s losing
Ezra Klein

Not every presidential scandal is Watergate. Here are three other useful analogies.
Andrew Prokop

The 'Death Tax' Deserves to Live
Noah Smith

Unemployment versus Underemployment: Assessing Labor Market Slack
John Robertson

Farewell to Kenneth Arrow, a Gentle Genius of Economics
Larry Summers

A brief guide to Kevin Hassett, Trump's new chief economist
Dylan Matthews

Judicial originalism as myth
Eric J. Segall

Money for Nothing
Fred Kaplan

‘He’s a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager’
Michael Kruse

Trump just blamed the military for the botched Yemen raid. That's a disgrace.
Phillip Carter

Can't we all just get along?, Econometrics edition
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 24 March 2017

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How American Politics Went Insane
Jonathan Rauch

The Prophet of Profit
Ray Fisman

Business Success Versus Government Success
Miriam Wasserman

Is a strong dollar good or bad? An answer for Donald Trump.
Matthew Yglesias

I asked 8 experts if we’re in a constitutional crisis. Here’s what they said.
Dylan Matthews

Gary Cohn and the Participation Rate
Bill McBride

This is what incompetence looks like
Paul Waldman

The cost of crisis: why stock fees rise when markets slip
Jason Wrobel

President Trump Has Done Almost Nothing
Zachary Karabell

Trump said he would hire the best people. Instead we got the Trump administration.
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump wants to know who's causing all these problems. It’s Donald Trump.
Dylan Matthews

I've been visiting Russia for 22 years. I've never seen Russians prouder than under Putin.
Lisa Dickey

Who Told Flynn to Call Russia?
Daniel Benjamin

Austerity was a bigger disaster than we thought
Matt O'Brien

The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: working-class whites
Tracy Jan

Links of the Week - 17 March 2017

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The case for Supreme Court term limits has never been stronger
Lee Drutman

Dashed Expectations Power White Anger
Noah Smith

The Axe Files with David Axelrod: 118 - Carl Bernstein
David Axelrod

The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds
Noah Smith

Bad Religion
William Saletan

The Last Time the U.S. Invaded Mexico
Joshua Zeitz

The Greatest, Saddest Super Bowl Ever
Josh Levin

Anatomy of a miracle: How the Patriots came back from the dead
Bill Barnwell

Two tales of federal debt : Why people disagree on the level of the federal debt
The FRED Blog

Is This Watergate?
Elizabeth Drew

Trump’s Apologist
William Saletan 

Checks? Never Heard of Them. Balances? Forget About It.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

We Are the 99 Percent

Josh Levin

How to Build an Autocracy

David Frum

The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'

Nick Spitzer

Links of the Week - 10 March 2017

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The Perils of Calling Trump a Liar
David Greenberg

Trump starts from the premise that he's popular and then believes any theory that proves it
Dylan Matthews

Why the Texan Republican who represents the border doesn’t want a wall
Matthew Yglesias

The only thing that can stop Trump from turning Washington into a permanent Crazytown
Steven Pearlstein

Trump Supporters Refuse to Believe Their Own Eyes
Alan Levinovitz

What History Teaches Us About Trump's Immigration Order
Joshua Zeitz

Trump as the New Andrew Jackson? Not on Old Hickory’s Life
H.W. Brands

The Snake
Ezra Klein

The incompetence displayed by Trump's immigration orders will be terrifying in a crisis
Matthew Yglesias

Trump isn’t an evil genius
David Roberts

Links of the Week - 3 March 2017

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What It Means to Speak for the United States
Carl Woog

It's a lot harder to fight lies about invisible things
Alvin Chang

The Trump administration just told a whopper about the size of the federal workforce
Christopher Ingraham

Trump’s Dangerous View of the CIA
William Saletan

Trump Sold America a Miracle Cure
Alan Levinovitz

Donald Trump is about to find out you can’t run government like a business
Matthew Yglesias

Market Liquidity Is Great, Until It Isn't
Noah Smith

Time for Business Leaders To Wake Up
Larry Summers

Donald Trump’s Vote Fraud Investigation Will Finish What the GOP Started
Mark Joseph Stern

The best theory for why Trump tells such obvious lies
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 24 February 2017

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Republican nativism helped turn California blue. Trump could do the same for the whole country.
Nicole Hemmer

Donald Trump Really Believes All Those Things He Said During the Campaign
Fred Kaplan

Trump Lays Down His Law
Dahlia Lithwick

The Carter Scenario: how Trump's victory could fall apart
Dylan Matthews

A liberal’s letter to conservatives on the occasion of Trump’s inauguration
Paul Waldman

Barack and Joe’s Secret Code
Jonathan Alter

Trump Ramps Up the Narcissism in an Appalling Speech
Fred Kaplan

Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.
Ezra Klein

Kellyanne Conway finally admits the audit was just an excuse
Matthew Yglesias

Don’t Broadcast Sean Spicer’s Press Conferences Live
Dan Gillmor

Links of the Week - 17 February 2017

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Here’s how Donald Trump could replace Obamacare without courting disaster
Ezra Klein

Maine’s Trump-loving governor wants John Lewis to thank Republican white men for civil rights
German Lopez

What the politics of presidential term limits teaches us about violating norms
Julia Azari

Health Care Fundamentals
Paul Krugman

‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’
Michael Kruse

The Most Powerful Republican in America (and How He Paved the Way for Donald Trump)
Mark Joseph Stern

The Ways That Pop Economics Hurt America
Noah Smith

The Best-Case Scenario for the Trump Presidency
Yascha Mounk

Democrats Have Finally Learned to Fight Like Republicans
Michelle Goldberg

Obama hoped to be a transformational president. He failed.

Jack Balkin

Links of the Week - 10 February 2017

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The Man Who Became Donald Trump
Annie Karni

Trump’s compulsion to link black people and “the inner city” is becoming absurd
Jenée Desmond-Harris

The MLK History Forgot

Joshua Zeitz

When a Foreign Government Interfered in a U.S. Election — to Reelect FDR

Steve Usdin

Cracks in the anti-behavioral dam?
Noah Smith

Why these economists say the usual explanation for the financial crisis is wrong
Max Ehrenfreund

Trump just threatened to dismantle the European-American alliance as we know it
Zack Beauchamp

Donald Trump may have just destroyed the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare
Paul Waldman

Trump's Nationalization by Twitter
Noah Smith

The hidden reason Republicans are so eager to repeal Obamacare
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 3 February 2017

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After intelligence leaks about Russian blackmail, Trump compares America to Nazi Germany
Zack Beauchamp

How Trump Rewrote the Scandal Playbook
Ronald A. Klain

The Trump administration says it has to have private help to fund roads and bridges. It's wrong.
Timothy B. Lee

The 2 most important words in Trump’s press conference
Matthew Yglesias

Obama, optimist to the end, hands off the presidency to a classless man
Paul Waldman

Our Own Worst Enemy
Reihan Salam

Ben Carson Knows Nothing
Jamelle Bouie

Make HUD Great Again
Reihan Salam

Trump’s bullying of businesses is good politics, but bad economics
Jim Tankersley

Infrastructure Delusions
Paul Krugman

Links of the Week - 27 January 2017

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Republicans: you have to pass our health care plan to find out what’s in it
Ezra Klein

Could an NFL Team Miss the Playoffs With a 13–3 Record?
Josh Levin

The WikiLeaks-Russia connection started way before the 2016 election
Zack Beauchamp

Julian Assange Is A Russian Front-Man, Not A Freedom Fighter
Tom Nichols

How Henry Kissinger Conspired Against a Sitting President
Zach Dorfman

Is Mike Flynn Behind Trump’s Scornful Treatment of the Intelligence Community?
Fred Kaplan

Sometimes It's Hard to Explain Market Failures
Noah Smith

Thoma: "Here's what really caused the housing crisis"
Bill McBride

America will miss Barack Obama's decency
Ezra Klein

Democrats should write their own “terrific” Obamacare replacement
Matthew Yglesias