Good Morning!

Joyce Vance Feb 22

If you looking for a quick summary read of the most important trendlines from the past week, the newest edition of The Democracy Index is posted over at the Contrarian.

This week, we focus on the emergence of threats at an unexpected pace, putting them in context so we can see the trends, not just individual events. Our goal is to help people who don’t have as much time as they’d like to keep up and who feel overloaded by the crush of bad news stay informed. The Democracy Index is a summary you can use to engage in a little civil discourse of your own; feel free to share it with your friends.

Because we’re figuring out how to do this as we go, your comments are very welcome. We’re working on a graphic, a look at a glance that tells us how democracy is doing. What else would you like to see?

The Democracy Index is a weekly column at The Contrarian, that you can access for free.

We’re in this together,

Joyce