This and that for your Tuesday reading.

– Thomas Seal and Derek DeCloet warn about the threat the U.S. poses to Canada – including the risk of becoming even more of a vassal state. And Emmett MacFarlane laments that we’re lacking moral leadership at precisely the moment when it’s most needed. 

– Meanwhile, Franklin Foer writes that the Trump regime is trashing both the U.S.’ public sector capacity, and the very idea that an impartial civil service can use its expertise to support the public interest. And Maxine Joselow reports that air pollution regulation is the latest area in which the Republican regime is absolutely devaluing human life and public health in order to cater to destructive corporate interests – even as Jerome Smail points out new research showing that air pollution can undermine the health benefits of exercise. 

– But in the “better things are possible” department, Adam Bonica notes that much of what is wrong with the U.S. could be fixed simply by having it emulate its international peers (as long as its model is the median OECD country rather than Russia and North Korea). And A.R. Moxon rightly suggests that rather than being handed absolute immunity to abuse the public, armed state agents should be held to a higher standard in justifying the use of force.

– Joseph Cox reports on a new tracking tool being used by ICE to monitor phones and their owners without a warrant. 

– Finally, Heather Vognell and Agnel Phillip report on SpaceX’s unregulated space debris – and the near-misses it has already caused as parts of exploded rockets have intersected with air traffic.