Monocle Radio Podcast (October 22, 2024): Vladimir Putin brings Brics leaders to Kazan, our US politics correspondent brings us the latest two weeks before the presidential election and we discuss King Charles’s testy visit to Australia. Plus: a check-in from San Francisco’s Urban Transformation Summit.
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The New York Times — Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Inside the Last-Ditch Hunt by Harris and Trump for Undecided Voters
Both campaigns are digging through troves of data to find these crucial Americans. They both think many are younger, Black or Latino. The Harris team is also eyeing white, college-educated women.
Harris Sets Record for Biggest Fund-Raising Quarter Ever
Donald Trump is raising less money than he did during his run in 2020, building a far smaller campaign than Kamala Harris.
As Harris Courts Sun Belt, Housing Costs Stand in Her Way
Shuttered factories and trade deals helped turn working-class Midwesterners against Democrats. Will the high cost of housing do the same in the Sun Belt?
Harris’s Faith, Inside and Outside the Black Church
Her biography embodies the multifaith, pluralistic and increasingly secular America she is bidding to lead.
Best Books: ‘The Long History of the Future’
The Long History of the Future’ Review: Pipe Dreams and Progress – WSJ
We don’t have flying cars or Jetsons-like robots to cook our meals. What we have is better: constant incremental progress.
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here By Nicole Kobie
A video flickers to life as Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” begins to sound. A long-haired man appears on screen. You might expect a jazz concert, but the man fiddles with a cabinet-like, camera-laden machine on wheels. As he steps away, a buzzer sounds, the machine slowly rolls forward, and the narrator announces its name: Shakey the Robot.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine-October 28, 2024
The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s Sorority
A.K.A., the oldest Black sorority, expects excellence and complete discretion. How are members responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign? By Jazmine Hughes
The U.S. Spies Who Sound the Alarm About Election Interference
A group of intelligence officials confers about when to alert the public to foreign meddling. By David D. Kirkpatrick
How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again
The former President has been fighting to win back his wealthiest donors, while actively courting new ones—what do they expect to get in return? By Susan B. Glasser
News: Hezbollah Finance Group Targeted By Israel, Moldova-EU Referendum
The New York Times — Monday, October 21, 2024
Starring in Kamala Harris’s Closing Argument: Donald Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris has made a notable shift in strategy to paint Donald Trump as unfit and dangerous as Democrats grow anxious about the closeness of the race just two weeks out.
Door-Knocks, Texts, and Ads, Ads, Ads: Life on the Swing-State Battlefield
This year’s campaign offers a vivid reminder of how much the playing field in presidential elections has shrunk, giving voters in a handful of states a disproportionate influence in the decision.
As I Am: L.G.B.T.Q. in Japan
‘We don’t want to send the message to the younger generation that we’re people who have to hide ourselves.’
U.S. Agencies Fund, and Fight With, Elon Musk. A Trump Presidency Could Give Him Power Over Them.
Ocean Views: Manta Rays In Quintana Roo, Mexico
CBS Sunday Morning (October 20, 2024): We leave you this Sunday morning under the sea in Quintana Roo, Mexico, where the Manta rays are enjoying breakfast. Videographer: Mauricio Handler.
Quintana Roo is a Mexican state on the Yucatán Peninsula. On its Caribbean coast, the town of Tulum offers seaside Mayan ruins, sandy beaches and undersea caverns. To the northeast, the resort city of Cancún is known for its nightlife, Nichupté Lagoon nature reserve and long beaches with coral reefs.
Arts/Culture: Humanities Magazine – Fall 2024 Issue
Humanities Magazine (October 20, 2024): The Fall 2024 Issue features…
The Indelible Charm of Mary Cassatt
A major exhibition takes us inside the private, busy lives of women by Angelica Aboulhosn
The Atlas of Drowned Towns
A new digital project looks at the forgotten history of America’s submerged communities by Anna Webb
Sunday Morning: Stories And The Top News From Zürich, Helsinki And Paris
Monocle on Sunday (October 20, 2024): Our weekend programme comes live from Monocle’s radio studio in Zürich, where Tyler Brûlé and a panel of special-guest thought leaders discuss key topics in front of a studio audience.
The New York Times — Sunday, October 20, 2024
Trump Thinks the Border Got Him Elected in 2016. He’s Convinced It Will Do So Again.
Voters rank the economy and high cost of living as their top issue. Donald J. Trump believes immigration “beats out the economy,” and he’s made it his closing message.
Inside the Secretive $700 Million Ad-Testing Factory for Kamala Harris
Future Forward has ascended to the top of the Democratic political universe, but it has also drawn suspicion and second-guessing.
The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business
The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.
Sinwar’s Final Moments: On the Run, Hurt, Alone, but Still Defiant
Israeli forces had been steadily closing in on Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for weeks before he was cornered and killed in a ruined house in the Gaza Strip.
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