MONOCLE ON SATURDAY (March 29, 2025): UK correspondent for Austrian magazine ‘Falter’, Tessa Szyszkowitz, joins Georgina Godwin following her trip to Silicon Valley to discuss today’s #TeslaTakedown protests and the local backlash to Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding.
Plus: Monocle’s Toronto correspondent, Tomos Lewis, explores independent bookshop Flying Books at Neverland. Then: Sanjoy K Roy and Anand George discuss food and music at the inaugural Voices of Faith festival.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (March 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘AI’s Next Phase’….
Investors are increasingly searching for AI’s payoff. The recent tech correction offers opportunities to grab stocks like Reddit, Intuit, and more at lower valuations.
After years of lagging behind the U.S. market, Germany, France, and other nations are playing catch-up. What the pros are buying now.
U.S. agriculture exports are at high risk for retaliation when reciprocal tariffs start on April 2.
The president has targeted firms that he claims have “weaponized” the legal system. On Friday, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale fought back in court, while Mr. Trump said he’d reached a deal with Skadden to avert an executive order.
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead.
With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
A central dictum in the Trump White House is that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is to blame for just about anything and everything.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major restructuring of the Health and Human Services Department, which now employs about 82,000 people.
The military takes extraordinary measures to keep combat operations secret, cutting off outside communications for service members before launching an attack.
On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns.
It’s challenging to stay mentally sharp and healthy through the major transition. Careful planning is key.
War plan or battle plan? Classified or not? The answers to those questions amount to a distinction without much of a difference.
The disclosure of battle plans on a chat app created a new predicament for the defense secretary.
The chat’s contents, which were obtained by The Atlantic after its editor in chief was added to the Signal group, provide a revealing look at private conversations between top Trump administration officials.
The administration had tightened regulations on kits that can be easily assembled into nearly untraceable firearms.
Democrats denounced the country’s top intelligence officials for “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” for discussing secret military plans in a group chat.
Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.
The deal was limited, and it was not clear when or how it would start. The Kremlin also demanded some Western sanctions be lifted first.
People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system.
The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the best technology.
A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war broke out two years ago. The scale of how much has been lost was inescapable.
The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The evolution reflects a growing bipartisan agreement that American families are struggling and something has to change.
A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
A presidential memorandum aimed at lawyers everywhere struck a menacing tone.
The British prime minister said in a series of conversations that the tectonic shifts in America’s relationship with Europe and Russia had to be a ‘galvanizing moment.’
Dozens of stranded migrants sleep on mattresses in a school gymnasium. In interviews, 25 deportees from around the world said they were stuck in limbo.
MONOCLE RADIO (March 23, 2025): Tyler Brûlé is joined by Juliet Linley and Marcus Schögel to unpack the week’s top stories. Then: Monocle’s Vienna correspondent, Alexei Korolyov, reports on the latest from the region and the artistic director of MIA Photo Fair, Francesca Malgara, shares key highlights from this year’s programme.
Paul Weiss was targeted by an executive order from President Trump. Its chairman, who had worked against Mr. Trump during his first term, then went to the Oval Office and cut a deal.
The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening the sovereignty of the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa.
Documents and insiders reveal how one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates.
The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.
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