Aeon+Psyche
Good citizenship depends on basic statistical literacy
13+ min · · A single statistic, or its misuse, can help upend a nation. Civic life depends on a basic level of statistical literacy · Shared by 64, including Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Liv 😷, Jochen Burkhard, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
theafricareport.com
How Western companies undermine African democracy
5 min · · As the recent election campaign in Tanzania reached a climax, opposition supporters began to notice something strange. · Shared by 12, including Jochen Burkhard, Mark Kaigwa
Vox
The crisis isn’t too much polarization. It’s too little democracy.
6 min · · If Republicans couldn’t win so much power while losing votes, the US wouldn’t be in the current crisis. · Shared by 201, including Ezra Klein, Armin Wolf, Memen Isimo, Rand Fishkin, Kevin Roberts, Brian Resnick, corey robin, Dave Nussbaum, Jochen Burkhard, Yann LeCun, Mark Kaigwa
Vox
America’s anti-democratic Senate, by the numbers
3 min · · If the United States chose its leaders in free and fair elections, Republicans would be firmly out of power. · Shared by 31, including James Fallows, Kainaz Amaria, Niko Kommenda, Ezra Klein, Jochen Burkhard
The Atlantic
The Right’s Disinformation Machine Is Getting Ready for Trump to Lose
6 min · · QAnon has become a linchpin of far-right media—and the effort to preemptively delegitimize the election. · Shared by 97, including Katja Evertz, Carly, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Kevin Roose, Mathew Ingram, Renee DiResta, Brad Brooks, Jochen Burkhard, Memen Isimo
Salon
Historian Timothy Snyder warns that America is already in its own "slow-motion Reichstag Fire"
11+ min · · Salon talks to Snyder about how Donald Trump uses pain and suffering as a weapon to remain in power · Shared by 63, including Jochen Burkhard, Brad Brooks, Jason Stanley, William Gibson
The Atlantic
Reading Too Much Political News Is Bad for Your Well-Being
7 min · · Obsessing over politics could hurt your happiness and your relationships. · Shared by 237, including Noel Jacob, Katja Evertz, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Nir Eyal, Gabriele, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., sircharlsxavier, Jochen Burkhard, Mark Kaigwa
The Atlantic
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
20+ min · · Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust collapses, nations fail. Can we get it back before it’s too… · Shared by 121, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Matteo Furia, Ethan Zeigler, Kevin Kelly, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Scott Monty, Lee Keyes, Mihai Badita, Phillip Murphy, Jochen Burkhard, Ian M Calvert, Brian Stelter, @mainec@fromm.social, Joshua Benton, Philanthropy News Digest
Aeon+Psyche
Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalism and democracy
14+ min · · Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back? · Shared by 94, including Faik Ersoy, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, dewang mishra, Jochen Burkhard
TechCrunch
Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation
4 min · · It used to be “easy” to tell the American and Chinese economies apart. One was innovative, one made clones. One was a free market while the other demanded payments to a political party and its… · Shared by 92, including Balaji, Jochen Burkhard, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, Philanthropy News Digest, Eileen Burbidge, Azeem Azhar, Vikram Dutt, Andrea Kuszewski 🧠
the.ink
America is now a mafia state
20+ min · · A conversation with Sarah Kendzior, scholar of authoritarianism and vindicated alarmist · Shared by 57, including Matthias Lampe, Jochen Burkhard, Carly, Mathew Ingram, Brad Brooks
The Atlantic
The Joke’s on Us
16+ min · · In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? · Shared by 137, including Caroline Criado Perez, Helen Lewis, Birgit Schefer, Or Gil, Mike Butcher, Jochen Burkhard, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Atlantic
The Election That Could Break America
20+ min · · If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? · Shared by 771, including Prof Michael E. Mann, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, anildash.com, Brian Stelter, Kevin M. Kruse, Carolyn Porco, Alfie Kohn, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Scott Stratten, James Fallows, Richard Dawkins, Scott Santens, David Weigel, Steve Silberman, Jay Rosen, Mathieu von Rohr, Mathew Ingram, Margaret Sullivan, Anne Applebaum
BuzzFeed News
FinCEN Files Explainer: How BuzzFeed News And ICIJ Did It
6 min · · Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of BuzzFeed News’ unprecedented trove. · Shared by 66, including Jay Rosen, Sebastien Meunier, Jochen Burkhard, Dave McClure, Brad Brooks
Vox
11 ways to fix America’s fundamentally broken democracy
20+ min · · A plan for the democratic revolution America needs. · Shared by 72, including Matthias Lampe, Kainaz Amaria, Philanthropy News Digest, Scott Santens, Jochen Burkhard, Ezra Klein
The Correspondent
Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy
18+ min · · The US is on its way to becoming an authoritarian state. That requires a radically different kind of journalism that doesn’t just cover the news, but defends democracy. · Shared by 82, including Nico Lumma, Claudia Sommer, Marie-José Kolly, Carl Morris, Jochen Burkhard, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, luis antónio santos, Judith D. Schwartz, Rob Wijnberg