Erosion of US Institutional Quality

Trump keeps trying to pick winners and losers, from farm aid to a border wall contract

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/05/24/daily-202-trump-keeps-trying-to-pick-winners-and-losers-from-the-bailout-for-farmers-to-a-border-wall-contract/5ce6cad11ad2e52231e8e79a/

Related:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/he-always-brings-them-up-trump-tries-to-steer-border-wall-deal-to-north-dakota-firm/2019/05/23/92d3858c-7b30-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html

USDA farms out economists whose work challenges Trump policies

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/usda-agriculture-economists-trump-policies-1340168

Extract from The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

Related:

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-the-fifth-risk-by-michael-lewis