Extremely dire warnings being issued by experts in democracy, authoritarianism and elections right now. Is anyone listening? slate.com/news-and-polit…
I'm getting the same feeling now I had in mid February, when usually mild-mannered public health experts were absolutely losing it but the rest of the country was blithely going about business as usual.
People asking me what to do, this is what Michael Coppedge of Notre Dame told me last week. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
One of the reasons the current situation feels so helpless is because it’s largely a failure of institutions rather than individuals. The entities that were supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening broke down and failed.
There are many such failing institutions, and their reasons for failure are legion. But these massive failures aren’t the types of things a typical individual can just go out and fix.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.