Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning have a look at incompetency, corruption and coverage failures:

• The Blast Impact: How bullets from an AR-15 blow the physique aside. (Washington Submit)

• Tons of Of Passengers Have Mentioned They Have been Sexually Assaulted On Cruise Ships. Their Tales Spotlight Years Of Lax Safety: Quite a few passengers touring on main cruise traces reminiscent of Carnival and Disney say in court docket paperwork that they have been raped and assaulted — usually occasions by crew members. (Buzzfeed Information)

• How a Main Toy Firm Stored 4chan On-line: Paperwork obtained by WIRED verify that Good Smile, which licenses toy manufacturing for Disney, was an investor within the controversial picture board. (Wired)

• A State’s Option to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals: ‘We’re Going Away’:  Mississippi is one in every of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that proceed to reject federal funding to develop medical insurance for the poor, intensifying monetary stress on hospitals. (New York Instances) see additionally How Cigna Saves Hundreds of thousands by Having Its Docs Reject Claims With out Studying Them: Inside paperwork and former firm executives reveal how Cigna medical doctors reject sufferers’ claims with out opening their information. “We actually click on and submit,” one former firm physician stated. (ProPublica)

• The lengthy shadow of Covid-19 myths: Like in lots of nations, misinformation about Covid-19 has circulated extensively in Morocco through the pandemic. A lot of it got here from the US and Europe. (BBC) see additionally My 6-Yr-Outdated Son Died. Then the Anti-vaxxers Discovered Out. Opponents of COVID vaccines terrorize grieving households on social media. (The Atlantic)

• The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County: College students have overdosed throughout class, in loos, and in an elementary-school car parking zone. (New Yorker)

• Why Tiny Ponds and Singing Frogs Matter So A lot: We face nothing lower than an existential disaster, and in that context the potential loss of some amphibians in a couple of unprotected wetlands may not be the best supply of grief on the earth. These little vernal swimming pools may appear expendable, hardly greater than a storybook enchantment for youngsters nonetheless enthralled to tales of princesses whose solely motive to kiss a frog is to show it again right into a prince. (New York Instances)

• How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor? A journey by means of Ron DeSantis’s magic kingdom (The Atlantic)

• The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists: Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological attraction and find out how to wean individuals from it. (Scientific American) see additionally Meet Some Of Trump’s Responsible Associates: Be part of us on this stroll down reminiscence lane… (Speaking Factors Memo)

• The gun that divides a nation: The AR-15 thrives in occasions of rigidity and tragedy. That is the way it got here to dominate {the marketplace} – and loom so massive within the American psyche. How the AR-15 turned a robust political, cultural image in America (Washington Submit)

You should definitely take a look at our Masters in Enterprise interview this weekend with Ken Kencel, founder and CEO of Churchill Asset Administration. The personal credit score agency manages $46 billion in personal capital and is an affiliate of Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion asset supervisor of TIAA. Churchill was the highest U.S. personal fairness lender in 2022 and was “Lender of the Yr” based on M&A Advisor. Kencel was named one in every of personal credit score’s 20 energy gamers.

Firearms are the Main Reason for Loss of life for Kids in america
(however Rank No Greater Than fifth in Different Industrialized Nations)

Supply: KFF

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