We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun - for weekend reading. Below are some from this week - pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• First - A GOOD News Fix - 20 Good things happening right now (Fix The News)

• Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row. Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden also made the top 10. There is stability in countries that provide for their residents. (CNBC)

• Watch: How Cyber Espionage Threatens Democracy in the Era of Trump (TVO)

• ‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE: WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite. (Wired)

• America’s Real Criminal Element Is Lead (Mother Jones)

• The End Game: A World Where Everything is Broken, and Nobody Cares: Welcome to the New Gilded Age - Same Greed, Different Billionaires. (The American Pamphleteer)

• Fast-er food: A productivity surge at U.S. restaurants: From the very beginning, fast-food restaurants were designed to be the epitome of productivity. Nearly everything about them was geared toward serving customers as quickly and efficiently as possible (NPR)

• Ghosts among the philosophers. Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root? (Aeon)

• Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters? Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him. (Columbia Journalism Review)

• Must watch TV: Netflix’s show called “Adolescence”. Netflix's Adolescence makes UK TV ratings history (BBC)

• ‘Spinal Tap 2’ Sets September Release and Turns the Volume ‘Up to 11’ in First Teaser: “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” a sequel to the 1984 music mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” will rock and roll into theaters this fall. (Variety)
  
  

What are you reading or listening to?