2024 Is the Year of Elections and That’s a Threat to Democracy
More than 40% of the global population will be voting this year, and we have a 10% chance everything will go well.
Vote with your feet. And your hands.
Photographer: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images
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Programming note: My name is Toby Harshaw, and welcome to the revenge of Gen X. On weekdays, I assist the wonderful Jessica Karl as she takes the best of Bloomberg Opinion’s daily content and turns it into her Gen Z prose poems, which send me into both peals of laughter and the dark recesses of Urban Dictionary to figure out what in god’s name she’s talking about. On the plus side, everyone was amazed when, doing the Sunday New York Times crossword, I came up with the answer “STAN” (clue: “Die-hard fan”). So on Sundays, you can forget fast fashion and close out TikTok; just pop the collar on your Izod and flip on MTV Classic. I promise to keep the dad jokes to a minimum.