Links of the Week - 25 August 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Where's the inflation?
David Andolfatto

A monetary-fiscal theory of inflation
David Andolfatto

When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election
John A. Farrell

Tolerance is not a moral precept
Yonatan Zunger

Rise of the Generals
Michelle Goldberg

Everyone Is Biased (Except White People)
Dahlia Lithwick

You're not imagining it: the rich really are hoarding economic growth
Dylan Matthews

Businesses Are Finally Realizing That Trump Causes “Uncertainty”
Daniel Gross

Big business wants you to think a tax cut for big business will stop outsourcing
Matthew Yglesias

The Madman and the Bomb
Garrett Graff

Links of the Week - 18 August 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

They Never Really Hated Obamacare
Jim Newell

How John McCain earned the “maverick” reputation he just lived up to on health care
Ella Nilsen

The Last Time a General Propped Up a President
Joshua Zeitz

Heritage On Health, 1989
Paul Krugman

Scaramucci’s Removal Evokes White House Turmoil During the Reagan Years
Matt Giles

My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump
Sen. Jeff Flake

Why repealing the 17th Amendment wouldn't fix the Senate
Seth Masket

Subprime auto defaults are up, but this time it's no crisis
Christopher Matthews

Big Money’s Sway Over Doctors
Danielle Ofri

Doomed to Fail
Richard Thompson Ford

Links of the Week - 11 August 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

How to Take Down Kim Jong Un
Tom Malinowski

Despite his boastful tweets, Trump had negative coattails in 2016
Matthew Yglesias

Unpresidential Command
Phillip Carter

A Constitutional Crisis Is Inevitable
Yascha Mounck

The Tragedy of John McCain
Jeff Greenfield

Democrats with dreams of impeachment should consider how Iran-Contra turned out
Nicole Hemmer

How to Replace Jeff Sessions
Steve Vladek

I’d Like to Report a Scam Against the Elderly
Jack Shafer

Bosses want capitalism for themselves and feudalism for their workers
Matt O'Brien

Jeff Sessions Is the Canary in the Coal Mine
Joshua Zeitz

Links of the Week - 4 August 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Jamie Dimon Is Fed Up With No One in Particular
Daniel Gross

Chris Cillizza Is a Bad Pundit and a Good Sport
Will Oremus

The latest Trump interview once again reveals total disregard for the rule of law
Matthew Yglesias

A new interview reveals Trump’s ignorance to be surprisingly wide-ranging
Matthew Yglesias

He Didn’t Have to Do It

Leon Nefaykh

The Looming Republican Disgrace

Rich Lowry

‘America First’: Who Really Wins?
Ian Bremmer

Yes, Trump Could Pardon Himself. Then All Hell Would Break Loose
Richard Primus

The trolling presidency
Dylan Matthews

It’s time to see if Democrats are serious about single-payer
Jeff Stein

Links of the Week - 28 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

We are past the point of innocent explanations on Trump and Russia
Ezra Klein

How Junior Got Played
Cheap Talk

Don Trump Jr.’s Emails Are the Smoking Gun
Michelle Goldberg

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How MLK Turned JFK Into a Civil Rights Champion
Nathalie Baptiste

Democrats should take the class warfare message to upscale suburbs
Matthew Yglesias

The Simple Son
William Saletan

We Don’t Need No Education
Paul Krugman

Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise?
Daniel Gross

The New Climate Of Treason
Paul Krugman

How They Justify Collusion
William Saletan

Links of the Week - 21 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The Republican health bill is stuck in a valley of incoherence
Ezra Klein

What the stock market’s rise under Trump should teach Democrats
Mike Konczal

When Was The Golden Age Of Conservative Intellectuals?
Paul Krugman

The real reason single-payer health care is hard to pay for
Matthew Yglesias

Formerly True Theories (Wonkish and Self-Indulgent)
Paul Krugman

An NYT report indicates Donald Trump, Jr. tried to collude with the Russian government
Matthew Yglesias

“Borders on treason”: George W. Bush’s former ethics lawyer blasts Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting
German Lopez

Donald Trump Jr. may well have committed a federal crime, experts say
Zack Beauchamp

This Town Melts Down
Mark Leibovich

Trump won by running as a moderate Republican
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 14 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

This is how Trumpism died
Ezra Klein

Trump just made a humiliating economic error in front of South Korea’s president
Zeeshan Aleem

How Gotham Gave Us Trump
Michael Kruse

The special ingredient that helps explain Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic war on Qatar
Zeeshan Aleem

America, the diminished
Ezra Klein

North Korea isn’t crazy. It’s insecure, poor, and extremely dangerous.
Zack Beauchamp

The $15 Question
Jordan Weissman

I Found HanAssholeSolo’s anti-Semitic Posts. Then, the Death Threats Started.
Jared Yates Sexton

The Secret Goal of Trump’s Voting Commission
Mark Joseph Stern

Rick Perry offered a ‘little economics lesson.’ It didn’t go so well.
Max Ehrenfreund

Links of the Week - 7 July 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Trevor Noah on the Philando Castile verdict: the NRA should “be losing their goddamn minds”
Caroline Framke

Is Michael Flynn Cooperating with the FBI?
Jeremy Stahl

There’s No National Solution for the Housing Crisis

Henry Grabar

Why the White House Is Reading Greek History

Michael Crowley

How Trump defends his Goldman Sachs advisers: "I just don't want a poor person"

Dylan Matthews

The Senate health bill takes what Americans hate about Obamacare and makes it worse
Ezra Klein

What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.
Rebecca Onion

‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’
Bruce Bartlett

Grover Norquist complained his daughter had to pay sales tax on her guitar. Twitter said he had forgot a few things.
Elizabeth Winkler

Tick, Tick, Tick
Michelle Goldberg

Links of the Week - 30 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely
Ezra Klein

How Congress Failed to Plan for Doomsday
Garrett Graff

An Abdication of Duty
Fred Kaplan

Why Jeff Sessions Won’t Give a Straight Answer
William Saletan

Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid
Debra Bruno

Mueller Is Coming for Trump
Mark Joseph Stern

Watergate Fueled Conspiracy Theories, Too
David Greenberg

How to Deal With North Korea
Mark Bowden

The US just waded deeper into the Syrian civil war
Alex Ward

No Strategy in Syria
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 23 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Donald Trump’s response to Comey shows how he weaponizes bullshit
Ezra Klein

What Trump Doesn’t Know Will Hurt Us
Fred Kaplan

Watching the Detectives
Katrina Gulliver

A tweet from Trump’s legal team shows he doesn’t understand what being president is about
Matthew Yglesias

We’re Not Even In Kansas Anymore
Paul Krugman

This profile of Trump's budget director has an unintentionally revealing anecdote
Tara Golshan

Trump friend: He’s thinking about firing Robert Mueller
Andrew Prokop

Sessions Needs to Talk
William Saletan

The problem with privatization
Larry Summers

Russia’s Power Trip
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 16 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Donald Trump is exploiting the fatal flaw of the two-party system
Lee Drutman

Has anyone told Donald Trump that he runs the government?
Ezra Klein

Like expensive bank bailouts? You’ll love Republicans’ Financial CHOICE Act.
Jonah Crane

Trump Can Commit All the High Crimes He Wants. Republicans Aren’t Going to Impeach Him.
Jonathan Chait

Donald Trump’s presidency is an American crisis
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 9 June 2017

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure
Noah Smith

Chaos Theory
Isaac Chotiner

Collusion Is Cool
William Saletan

Americans Sure Seem to Like Universal Health Care
Noah Smith

Will Republicans impeach Trump?
Lee Drutman

Paying Inmates Minimum Wages Helps the Working Class
Noah Smith

Donald Trump and the 3 “drain the swamp” fever dreams of American politics
Lee Drutman

Why Do They Hate Her?
Joshua Zeitz

The mystery of the 2016 election was its normalcy
Ezra Klein

It's Smart to Worry About ETFs
Noah Smith