Inside Foreign Affairs November/December 2022 issue:
What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
Inside the The New Yorker Magazine, November 7, 2022:
In the state’s midterms—which could determine the balance of the Senate and the integrity of the Presidential race in 2024—Democrats are fighting for the vote. Republicans are fighting to undermine it.
As the head of General Electric, he fired people in vast numbers and turned the manufacturing behemoth into a financial house of cards. Why was he so revered?
The concept helps entertainment companies like Marvel Studios recycle old characters—but it can also unlock new kinds of storytelling.
From tax legislation to the debt-ceiling debate, a lot is riding on the next Congress. What to expect from divided government.
There’s plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we’re headed toward a less apocalyptic future.
This is what success looks like in the creator economy: Sometimes you have to beg millions of fans for mercy.
The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history
Merck unearths a frozen batch of an experimental vaccine it made years ago
Experiments involving eyelid suturing and maternal separation divide scientists
Models suggest rising immunity in a small group of people, not vaccination, is key
Reasons to be cheerful are scant
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy
The country’s clean-energy push shows a way to escape the coal addiction
Britain’s political fever dream continued apace this week as Rishi Sunak became prime minister without anyone even voting for him. The former chancellor, the country’s third prime minister in less than two months and the fifth in six years, is also the UK’s first leader of colour and the first Hindu to take the office.
Jonathan Freedland considers how big a blow Truss’s ill-judged stint in power has delivered to the school of neoliberal economic thought.
Brazil also faces a judgment day this weekend, as Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva square up in a presidential runoff of deep significance for the country and the planet, with the protection of the Amazon at stake. The outcome is on such a knife-edge that not even the nation’s gangsters can decide who to vote for, as our Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports.
On the subject of the environment, don’t miss Naomi Klein’s long read about how Egypt’s government has used the coming Cop27 conference to greenwash its own oppressive political activities.
Then, there’s a revealing interview with Chelsea Manning, who opens up to Emma Brockes on what really happened when she leaked thousands of classified US military documents.
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