Opulence, the War on Drugs and MAGA Monsters

(Bloomberg View) -- The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Intelligentsia coffee, grab a seat by the fire, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:

• The Real Future of Work: Forget automation. The workplace is already cracking up in profound ways, and Washington is sorely behind on dealing with it. (Politico)
• Making China Great Again (New Yorker)
• Inside Silicon Valley's Orgiastic Dark Side (Vanity Fair)
• Dubai's Opulent Wealth: Supercars and the 100 Million-Pound Private Plate Market (Absolute Reg)
• How Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump have restarted the war on drugs: Under Obama, America's addiction to mass incarceration seemed to fade. But then came Trump and a hardline attorney general (Guardian)
• My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (the Intercept)
• Inside the Regulatory Rollback at the EPA (ProPublica)
• Solving Wildlife's Strangest Mysteries (Outside)
• Rick Wilson: MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other (Daily Beast)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and Treasury official under George H.W. Bush, and author of "The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks."

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”

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