I agree with you 150%...and so does my wife. We stay away from the news. We stay away from politics. Our lives are much more peaceful and healthy because we do stay away. And a lot of the news and politics are incredibly embellished and untrue…so it heightens the emotional state of the reader.

If I want to know about a subject…I go to think-tanks, NGO’s or government agencies that specifically track and write peer reviewed publications on that subject. I like data intensive publications to understand a subject. It does take time to read these things. But it gives me a much more thorough understanding of something than 30 seconds of emotionally taxing news or politics. Especially during the elections, which is what the US is going through right now.