Link Round-Up, 8-31-11

Here's an excellent case study in policy implementation: the new rules regarding the identification of criminal suspects by witnesses that have been implemented in some places (and now mandated in NJ), while others insist the old rules were fine.

President Obama has chosen a new head of the Council of Economic Advisers: Alan Krueger, an economist at Princeton who studies the job market among other topics.

On the occasion of the installation of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in D.C., Congressman John Lewis writes that the voter identification laws being passed in states around the country are just another attempt to keep minorities and the poor from voting -- a poll tax by another name

Here's a brief synopsis of the race for the Republican nomination, courtesy of The Economist

Liberal columnist Paul Krugman writes that the Republican Party has become the "anti-science party" as Republican candidate Jon Huntsman warned about.  He concludes by arguing that

the odds are that one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge. And, in a time of severe challenges — environmental, economic, and more — that’s a terrifying prospect.