“Ethical Markets recommends this analysis by Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor in Chief of The Economist, which we read every week and often quote in our Green Transition Scoreboard 2018 “CAPTURING CO2 WHILE IMPROVING HUMAN NUTRITION & HEALTH” now a free download at www.ethicalmarkets.com. Let’s reform our electoral system, abolish the Electoral College, fix gerrymandering and get the money out of its dominant role suffocating US politics! In our home state of Florida we can elect former UN Ambassador Nancy Soderberg to our new 6th District!
~Hazel Henderson, Editor”
We have two covers. In Europe we set out to make sense of the resignation of Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign secretary, and David Davis, his cabinet colleague in charge of Brexit. For a few hours, there was excitable talk that Theresa May might be toppled as prime minister. But as the week unfolded, it became clear that Mrs May has in fact emerged stronger. Her new Brexit plan, which so irked Mr Johnson and Mr Davis, marks a decisive shift—an attempt to face up to Brexit’s inevitable compromises. The trouble is that Brussels is likely to ask for more and neither Brexiteers nor Remainers much like the deal that is taking shape
In our other editions we look at American democracy’s built-in bias. For Democrats to have a better than 50% chance of winning a majority in the House of Representatives in November’s mid-term elections, they will need to win the popular vote by around seven percentage points—a landslide. The Senate and the White House have a similar bias. In no other two-party system does the party that receives the most votes routinely find itself out of power. What has gone wrong?
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief