Video timeline: 00:00–50:34 – Salzburg 50:35–01:40:36 – Budapest 01:40:37–02:36:08 – Bamburg
Stroll the romantic streets of Salzburg, famous for the backdrop to the beloved ‘Sound Of Music’, to the historic town of Bamburg with it’s beautiful architecture.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (August 31, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Are Kids Too Expensive’ – The rising cost of child-rearing is driving more Americans to say “No, thanks.” Why that’s a problem for the U.S. economy…
A population decline stemming from falling birthrates and tighter immigration policies could derail America’s prosperity. Politicians of both persuasions are promising to help families.
Job-hoppers often cash out of 401(k) plans. Doing this instead could sharply boost your savings.
The markets are at a critical juncture, with a rate cut and presidential election looming. How to position your portfolio.
Starting Sunday, the Israeli military and Hamas will observe brief, staggered pauses in fighting to allow 640,000 Gazan children to be vaccinated, U.N. officials said.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s fund-raising has benefited from a surge of interest from Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Bob Garrison was determined to rescue his son from the streets. The path was more difficult than he had imagined.
The president will mostly be deployed to the vital swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as the vice president seeks to define a separate political identity.
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel tells the story of a spy-for-hire who infiltrates the ranks of a radical French commune.
Why have right-wing ideas found such an eager audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency?
During the last half-century, artists, curators, and scholars have been increasingly preoccupied with the idea of spectacle and with how to embrace, critique, or co-opt the power of work that envelops and overwhelms the viewer.
Jenny Holzer: Light Line – An exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, May 17–September 29, 2024
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle by Jonathan Crary
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer
In his new book, Reading the Constitution, Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions on issues such as abortion and gun rights as the product of rigid and imperfect reasoning rather than of ideology, and he argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.
Chapters: 0:00 WSJ poll 0:40 Harris’s visibility 1:42 Key issues 2:24 Favorability 3:15 What’s next?
While Trump still leads on key issues like the economy and immigration, Harris had 48% support to his 47% in a head-to-head test, claiming an advantage within the survey’s margin of error. WSJ breaks down the major takeaways from the poll.
The Globalist Podcast (August 30, 2024): Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sit down for their first joint TV interview while Donald Trump reposts lewd comments.
Then: we discuss the state of the free press in Hong Kong as editors face sedition charges. Plus: we examine Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II’s unlikely relationship.
The 2024 presidential race is the first in 24 years without a major American ground war, but Donald J. Trump continues to stoke division over the post-9/11 conflicts that helped give rise to his movement.
Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general, defended the 10-year plan to stabilize the agency’s finances, although he acknowledged that officials had faced initial challenges.
Prosecutors say that corruption is rising in California cities as one-party rule, inattentive voters and weakened news media have reduced the traditional checks on power.
The president’s allies in the chamber he so revered feared he would drag them down and spoil his own legacy, and played a more assertive role than was previously known in his stepping aside.
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An ambitious strategy aims to cool the planet by dumping farmed seaweed on the sea floor. Will it work?
Focusing on temperature extremes can galvanize policy changes but risks undercounting
Building a Spanish megalith required sophisticated physics, geometry, and geology
It could kill millions—and spread chaos across Africa and the Middle East
Before reform and money comes courage
Welcome to the mirror world
Two contradictions could stymie the AI chipmaker-in-chief
Shortages are hampering the production of essential medicines
The Guardian Weekly (August 29, 2024) – The new issue features ‘Game Changers’ – Will the Paralympics make a difference for disabled people?
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Spotlight | Families on the frontline of the mpox outbreak
Carlos Mureithi and Ruth Alonga report from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 96% of Africa’s 17,000 reported cases of the viral disease this year have occurred.
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Health | The quest to end the menopause
Women’s ovaries affect everything from metabolism to mood – so some scientists are trying to slow the way they age. But is it a good idea? Amy Fleming investigates.
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Feature | The evolution of Kamala Harris
After Kamala Harris’s triumphant speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Janell Ross’s profile tells the story of the vice-president’s rapid rise to become a US presidential contender.
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Opinion | Escaping Russia’s legacy
Ukraine marked its independence day last weekend with the country still facing an uncertain future. Olga Rudenko’s eloquent piece explains why it was a bittersweet celebration of a defiant nation that refuses to bow to a tyrant and his armies.
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Culture | The podcast that made true crime truly popular
On the 10th anniversary of the streaming hit Serial, the show’s founder Sarah Koenig talks to Fiona Sturges about how it tapped into the amateur sleuth in us all.
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