We Were Warned. We Still Failed

We Were Warned. We Still Failed

It is easy to promise readiness for the next disaster; it is much harder to maintain the political and public will to prepare. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed leadership failures and systemic design flaws that left us exposed. We built a pandemic response system optimized for appearances rather than effectiveness. A recent review moves past partisan narratives, offering a sharper, more unsettling diagnosis—our institutions failed because they wer…

Foreshadows and Forewarnings: We Were an Early Warning System for Democracy - WhoWhatWhy

Two past conversations that warned of democracy’s structural weaknesses years before they became headlines. Prescient insights needed now more than ever.