Avoid your eyes!mine sunday morning Look at incompetence, corruption and policy blunders:

• How will this end?Where America’s Democracy Crisis Could Be Headed. Americans have long believed that our country is different. This is true today in perhaps the worst possible sense: no other mature democracy in the West is at risk of democratic collapse. (sound)

• How Britain fell apart: A road trip through (dis)Britain’s ancient past and shaky future (atlantic organization)

• Anatomy of a Death Threat Trump supporters have launched an intimidation campaign against state and local officials managing U.S. elections. This visual analysis explores hundreds of threatening messages and explains why they are so difficult to deal with. (Reuters)

• How European burning of wood pellets harms the southern US A global story of questionable renewable standards, market-driven forest management and unstable carbon accounting. (slate)

• The radicalization of JD Vance By the time he ran for the Senate, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy” had gone from media darling to establishment pariah. Is his new, fiery, right-wing persona an act? Or did something more interesting happen? (Washington post)

• Important currents in the Atlantic could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand these dangers. Efforts to directly observe ocean currents so far have shown them to be stranger and less predictable than expected. (MIT Technology Review)

• Why is the expanded child tax credit more popular? The expansion has expired, and the bill to update it has stalled. Public opinion is favorable, but not overwhelmingly, for several reasons. (New York Times)

• This is where candidates rejecting elections are running to control voting NPR’s analysis of the nation’s 2022 secretary of state race found that at least 15 Republican candidates have questioned the legitimacy of President Biden’s 2020 victory, despite finding no evidence of widespread campaign fraud in the past 14 months. In fact, any claims of election-impacting fraud have been explicitly refuted in state after state, including those run by Republicans. (NPR)

• ‘The fuse has blown, and the doomsday glacier is coming for us all New data show that the ice shelf has collapsed on a massive scale in just five years. “We’re dealing with an event that humanity has never witnessed,” says one scientist. “We don’t have anything like that.” (Rolling Stones)

• The numbers tell the story of January 6 A year of prosecution More than 700 people were indicted, 174 pleaded guilty and 74 were sentenced. There is also an unknown number of cases to deal with. That’s where the massive legal effort comes a year later. (buzzing)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview Meet this weekend with Ray Dalio, founder, co-chairman and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. Dalio’s latest book, Principles for Coping with a Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.

Breakdown of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Industry

source: visual capitalist

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