Category Archives: News
Morning News: Covid-19 Vaccines, Trumpism, Tokyo Olympics – 2021 In Review
Monocle’s news editor Chris Cermak examines 2021’s biggest news stories, including the world’s biggest public-health crisis in a century, Donald Trump’s departure from the White House and the Tokyo Olympics.
Front Page Views: Wall Street Journal – DEC 24
Morning News: Covid Pill Approved, Capitol Hill Riot, Putin Conference
The FDA has approved the emergency use of Pfizer’s antiviral COVID pill. The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol wants to question Representative Jim Jordan.
And, the world is watching President Vladimir Putin’s annual year-end press conference a little closer this year as tensions rise on the border with Ukraine.
Front Page Views: The New York Times – December 23
Morning News: Americans Move Out Of Cities, North-South Split, Julius Caesar
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences.
After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
Front Page Views: Wall Street Journal – DEC 22
Morning News: Leftist Wins Election In Chile, Turkish Lira, Omicron
A.M. Edition for Dec. 21. Gabriel Boric’s landslide win could empower him to embark on a big economic revamp of the market economy and that has unsettled investors. WSJ’s Ryan Dube explains how the former student protest leader plans to raise taxes and dismantle a private pension system in Latin America’s richest nation. Peter Granitz hosts.
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