It’s the Ides of March.  Be careful out there.  Here’s a random selection of this week’s reads:

• How Fear made America.  Scott Lemieux reviews Ira Katznelson’s new book Fear Itself:  The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.
• Anatol Levien questions the  “endgame” in Afghanistan.
• Ken Roth asks what rules should govern drone attacks.
• Charles Hunt on the on-going challenges of peacekeeping in DRC. 
• North Korean propaganda video of life in the United States.
• Missed this earlier — the four stages of Putinism.
• The guy who put internet freedom on the “grown-ups table” is leaving the State Department.
• Larry Diamond is running a MOOC on Democracy Development course through Coursera. Begins April 1.

And….

• Follow the light and you will find which economies are growing.