Choose-your-own-reality governance is a threat to the most basic principles of liberal democracy. If economic statistics can be distorted, and climate data can be canceled, and vaccine analysis can be politicized, where exactly is the line? Transparency, trust, and public truths are essential to the functioning of liberal democracy. We’re all... See more

But when we looked out our own windows — or through the newsfeeds on our screens — we witnessed not only suspension but also decline, and at a much grander scale. Maps and graphs showed stilled air traffic and transit systems, depressed economies, shuttered businesses, sheltering communities. Those downward-trending graphs were juxtaposed with... See more

Work in ProgressAmerica’s Most Important Economic Storyteller Is ConfusedAn old economy is dying, and a new economy is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monstrously confusing data.By Derek ThompsonAn illustration of the dollar-bill portrait of George Washington shrugging in confusionThe Atlantic; GettyJune 17, 2022About the author: Derek... See more