Links of the Week - 24 August 2018

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Bitcoin is still a total disaster
Matt O'Brien

Has wage growth been slower than normal in the current business cycle?
The FRED Blog

“Socialism” vs. “capitalism” is a false dichotomy
 Will Wilkinson

Why so many people who need the government hate it
Sean Illing & Suzanne Mettler

What John Dean Has to Say About the NYT’s Blockbuster Don McGahn Story
Isaac Chotiner

Links of the Week - 17 August 2018

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Liberals Don’t Have to Defend Sarah Jeong’s Tweets
Yascha Mounk

Corporate profits versus labor income : Risk & reward versus slow & steady
The FRED Blog

Racism is a problem of white elites, and Kris Kobach proves it
Dylan Matthews

New York’s Uber Cap Is Good News for Basically Everyone
Henry Grabar

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade
New York magazine

Links of the Week - 10 August 2018

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Why Trump Has Such a Soft Spot for Russia
Andrew Sullivan

Russian Intervention
William Saletan

American white people really hate being called “white people”
David Roberts

We’re Never Going to Get Our “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?” Moment
Rebecca Onion

New Report: Uber and Lyft Riders Aren’t Giving Up Their Cars—They’re Giving Up Transit
Henry Grabar

What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis
Noah Smith

Trump Might Cut Taxes Without Congress. It’s His Ultimate Heist for the Rich.
Jordan Weissmann

Amusing ourselves to Trump
Ezra Klein

The Cryptocurrency Game With a $9 Million Prize
Arvind Dilawar

How 2,000 year old roads predict modern-day prosperity
Christopher Ingraham

Links of the Week - 3 August 2018

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A simple analogy for understanding Trump’s Putin meeting
Zack Beauchamp

The “do what you want” theory of politics
Dylan Matthews

Accusing Trump of Treason Will Only Help Him
Fred Kaplan

Socialists Will Need to Be 10 Times Smarter Than Republicans to Get Taken Seriously in Washington
Jordan Weissmann

Donald Trump and the crisis of elite impunity
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 27 July 2018

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Trump’s administration is full of kooks and crooks because it’s led by Donald Trump
Matthew Yglesias

Europe’s Dependence on the U.S. Was All Part of the Plan
Claire Berlinski

Trump’s ‘populism’ is just a search for scapegoats
Matt O'Brien

What Robert Mueller Knows—and 9 Areas He'll Pursue Next
Garrett Graff

It’s Resignation Time
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 20 July 2018

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Hey Democrats, Fighting Fair Is for Suckers
Rob Goodman

Goldman Sachs Warns That Rising Wages Could Cut Into Corporate Profits. The Horror!
Jordan Weissmann

“Law and order” politics often undermines the rule of law
Amy Erica Smith

The Liberal Case for Kavanaugh Is Complete Crap
Jordan Weissmann

What Jonathan Chait Gets Right About Trump and Russia
Tom Nichols

Links of the Week - 13 July 2018

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The Case for Incivility
Osita Nwanevu

How to fix the Supreme Court
Ezra Klein

It’s time for term limits for Supreme Court justices 
Lee Drutman

Mitch McConnell’s politics of shamelessness have won
Matthew Yglesias

Map identifies 1,700 public memorials to the Confederacy
Frank Jacobs

People are worried about these economic warning signs. They can relax. For now.
Andrew Van Dam

Court-packing, Democrats’ nuclear option for the Supreme Court, explained
Dylan Matthews

Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics
Matthew Yglesias

Roe Block
William Saletan

Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism
Eric Weinstein with Sean Illing

Links of the Week - 6 July 2018

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Trump’s Bizarre Tangent About Canadian Shoe Smugglers, Explained
Jordan Weissmann

Domino's Pizza Fixing Potholes Is an Ominous Sign
Noah Smith

For the last time: Trump inherited a good economy, and he hasn’t made it better
Matt O'Brien

Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility”
Zack Beauchamp

The Government Had No Intention of Reuniting Separated Families
Dahlia Lithwick

In MLK’s day, conservatives didn’t think he was so “civil”
Nicole Hemmer

After a ridiculous days-long bad-faith debate on civility, can the press manage to learn self-respect?
Matthew Yglesias

White People Are Cowards
Michael Harriot

Cowards and Traders
William Saletan

“Mad Dog” in the Doghouse
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 29 June 2018

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The Kim Con
William Saletan

Demolition Donald
Fred Kaplan

If FBI Staffers Had Texted Each Other About Stopping Hillary, Would Democrats Think There Was a Conspiracy Against Them?
Ben Mathis-Lilley

Maybe This One Dumb Chart Explains the Economy
Jordan Weissmann

Elizabeth Holmes Deserves Prison, but Her Indictment Won’t Make Silicon Valley Any Less Reckless
Felix Salmon

For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren’t just flat. They’re falling.
Jeff Stein

Trump’s Damning Doublespeak
William Saletan

To stop endless war, raise taxes
Sarah Kreps

Donald Trump’s cruel immigration politics is a scam
Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump Goes Rogue
George Packer

Links of the Week - 22 June 2018

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We Now Know Why Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach Lobbied for a Citizenship Question on the Census
Ari Berman

Ajit Pai Is Twisting the Meaning of the “Open Internet”
April Glaser

Jeff Flake Should Do Something
Jamelle Bouie

Maine voters blew up their voting system and started from scratch
Ella Nilsen

A Win for Kim
Fred Kaplan

Links of the Week - 15 June 2018

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Trump’s legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny
Matthew Yglesias

America’s allies should respond to steel tariffs with targeted sanctions on the Trump Organization
Matthew Yglesias

Showdown in Singapore
Fred Kaplan

Forget Russia. Maybe It’s the U.S. That Doesn’t Belong at the G-7
Joshua Keating

There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 8 June 2018

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NFL owners are stifling speech, but it’s not called “no-platforming” when you’re rich and own the platform
Matthew Yglesias

There is no productivity crisis, experts say
Steve LeVine

Forget about broad-based pay hikes, executives say
Steve LeVine

California’s top-two primary chaos, explained
Andrew Prokop

Here’s who to blame for rising gasoline prices
Amy Harder

California could avoid the chaos of the “top two” primary with ranked-choice voting
Lee Drutman

Trump Crony Proves Widespread Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist
Mark Joseph Stern

America has local political institutions but nationalized politics. This is a problem.
Lee Drutman

The media's undeniable pro-Trump bias
Tim Miller

Trump Pardoned Dinesh D’Souza to Troll Liberals
Jacob Heilbrunn