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

• How Joe Manchin Helped Coal and Made Millions: At every step of his political career, Joe Manchin helped a West Virginia power plant that was the sole customer of his private coal business. In the process, he blocked ambitious climate action. (New York Times).

• Without more cash, global Covid jobs in the US will ‘stop’ With more than $4 billion of applications on hold in Congress, USAID officials are now forced to prepare for the possibility that funding will dry up in the coming months. (politics) see also Ending the pandemic will cost money.Congress is reluctant to pay. The U.S. risks rolling back years of progress made in testing, drugs, vaccines, and more. (grid)

• The silence of Donald Trump, John Eastman and the Justice DepartmentIt is no exaggeration to say that the history of the United States has never seen such a damaging description of a president’s conduct as Judge David Carter’s March 28 first nine pages in Eastman v. Thompson. Legally, the opinion concerns a Jan. 6 effort by the committee to protect emails from John Eastman, a law professor who advised President Trump on recommendations aimed at overturning the 2020 election. But that’s not why it will be remembered. (legal benefits)

• America still doesn’t know how to track the pandemic For two years, we have been trying to understand COVID-19 trends through indicators of fundamental damage to a chronically fragmented and underfunded public health system. If the country does not want to repeat its mistakes, it will have to act very differently the next time a health crisis hits. (five thirty-eight)

• Why school wars are still raging: From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have been arguing for a century over who should tell our origin story. (New Yorker) see also How a lawsuit against teens prompted Florida Republicans to pass ‘don’t speak gay’ law Florida Republican lawmakers have frequently cited the Littlejohns lawsuit when debating the bill in the recent legislative session. (politics)

• 40 Years of Reagan’s Liberal Experiment Has Brought Us Crisis and Chaos “Please name a country, anywhere in the world, where libertarianism has succeeded and brought general peace and prosperity at any time during the past 7,000 years?” (Hartman Report)

• Local health officials report threats, vandalism and harassment during pandemic Local health officials tasked with responding to the coronavirus crisis are facing unprecedented hostility, according to a new study of 1,499 incidents of harassment in the first year of the pandemic. Of the 583 local health departments surveyed by Johns Hopkins researchers, 57% reported that from 2020 to 2021 employees experienced physical threats, assaults, vandalism and other forms of harassment. (Washington post)

• Kill the wolf to own the library? Predators were reintroduced to the state in the nineties – and have been the subject of political controversy ever since. A radical new law allows people to hunt or trap as much as they can. (New Yorker)

• Race Transcript: How Far We’ve Come, and How Far We Have to Go A measure of how things have progressed in the nearly two years since the murder of George Floyd. (Work Week) see also A year after Atlanta shooting, Asian women live in fear: ‘How can we stay safe?’ Attacks against Asian Americans surged last year, with one in three communities expressing concerns about threats, physical assault and violence, according to the Pew Research Center. Since the beginning of the pandemic, horrific attacks against Asian-American seniors, as well as Asian-American businesses, have been reported across the country. (Washington post)

• The case that killed #MeToo in Sweden Sweden is not a smaller, colder America with better child care. This is a completely different society. (New York Times)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview This weekend with Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO who manages the Total Return Fund, the largest mutual fund in the world at $293B. Gross advised the Treasury on the role of subprime mortgage bonds and was named Morningstar’s ten-year fund manager in 2010.

The vast majority of minerals critical to U.S. national security are imported

Source: Cowen & Co via Bruce Mailman

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