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

• Stress is weathering our our bodies from the within out: Physicians and public well being consultants have pointed to 1 perpetrator again and again when requested why People reside shorter lives than friends in nations with related sources, particularly folks felled by persistent ailments within the prime of life: stress. (Washington Publish)

• Is This How Amazon Ends? An open embrace of low-cost international merchandise has helped Amazon take over the world. It additionally would possibly assure Amazon’s eventual obsolescence. (The Atlantic) see additionally The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok: Or how, precisely, platforms die. (Wired)

• Critical Medical Errors Rose After Non-public Fairness Corporations Purchased Hospitals: A brand new examine exhibits a rise within the price of inpatient problems, together with infections and falls, although sufferers had been no extra prone to die. (New York Occasions)

• The underbelly of electrical automobiles: What goes into making EVs, the place it comes from and at what human price. (Washington Publish)

• With a Deadline Looming, the United Methodist Church Breaks Up:  1 / 4 of the denomination’s church buildings have left, as the religion divides over L.G.B.T.Q. insurance policies. (New York Occasions)

• Liars, expulsions and near-fistfights: Congress plumbs the depths in 2023: From eradicating a Home speaker and expelling an indicted member, it was not an ideal 12 months for America’s representatives. (The Guardian) see additionally Home Republicans’ humiliating 12 months, defined: Even by Home GOP requirements, 2023 was absurd. (Vox)

• Behind the Scenes on the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade: That is the within story of how the Supreme Courtroom overturned the constitutional proper to abortion. Many of the justices — together with the girl chosen by President Donald J. Trump to assist undo it — opposed even listening to the case. The justices reworked a long-shot case right into a historic turning level — taking pictures down compromise and testing the boundaries of how the legislation is set.  (New York Occasions)

• Biden Knew Carter Was in Hassle in 1979. Now He’s within the Similar Boat. Each presidents confronted inflation and foreign-policy challenges as they sought a second time period (Wall Avenue Journal)

• Prime Trumps: The ten worst issues the previous president stated this 12 months: Arduous to maintain monitor of all of the racist, unhinged, authoritarian feedback by the previous president? Don’t fear, we’ve acquired you coated. (The Guardian)

• The Solely Factor Extra Harmful Than Authoritarianism: The forces of Christian nationalism at the moment are ascendant each contained in the Church and contained in the Republican Occasion. (The Atlantic)

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Measles is once more on the march internationally, because of anti-vaxxers akin to RFK Jr.

Supply: Los Angeles Occasions by way of Yahoo Finance

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Mild posting over the following few weeks as I’m nonetheless on trip/guide go away — again January 15!