You may ask yourself ... : 3 essential reads on the state of the world

Drinking from the news firehose, so you don't have to.

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If you’re in the news business, like I am, even by the hyper-accelerated standards of our times, these are strange days indeed. From the presidential campaign trail to the world stage, our senses (and collective intelligence) have been assaulted by all manner of what the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson no doubt would have described as “b…