Saturday assorted links
1. Brendan Nyhan reading list on the authoritarian turn and U.S. politics.
2. Ben Casnocha put a lot of time into this blog post on why people work as much as they do. And I know why he did it.
3. In San Francisco, sometimes even the renters support NIMBYism.
4. Survival is Syria’s strategy. And what’s behind the flare-up in eastern Ukraine?
5. “Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S.: jam U.S. immigration courts in hopes of causing the already overburdened system to break down.” (WSJ)
6. “The U.S.-educated Mexican economists who negotiated the trade pact in the 1980s are worried more about their own country’s protectionist tendencies than about Donald Trump.” (WSJ)