Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.
What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?
The company offers steady jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how China’s reopening will disrupt the world economy, a realistic path to a better relationship between Britain and the EU (8:54) and reinventing the Indo-Pacific (17:35).
The question of Europe has caused a decade of turmoil. Here’s how to use the next ten years better
Power struggles, public humiliation and a government shutdown may follow
 Photograph by Rafael Pavarotti for The New York Times. |
The New York Times Magazine – January 1, 2023 Issue:
Power struggles, resignations and made-for-TV moments — the untold story of the most important congressional investigation in generations.
For Jason Lentz, being a world-class competitive lumberjack was fated in his family tree.
Operating in shadows, he was a hero; in the light, he quickly became a villain.
Video timeline: 00:00 – The World Ahead 2023 00:35 – India’s population potential 04:30 – Psychedelic medicines 08:06 – Japan’s markets mayhem? 12:45 – Repairing the world 15:50 – The coronation’s colonial concerns
Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022
Why Autocrats Fear Women
MARCH/APRIL 2022
How All the Major Powers—Even the United States—Became Revisionists
AUGUST 3, 2022
The Guardian Weekly (December 23, 2022) issue:
As we near the end of another tumultuous year, one story has dominated the news agenda on almost every level. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February had been signposted for months, but the shattering of Europe’s postwar order still came as a seismic shock.
The economic and human cost inflicted by Russia on Ukraine has been enormous, while the concurrent shock waves of energy, food and migration crises have reverberated around the world. In a special essay for the final Guardian Weekly magazine of 2022, diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour examines the competing grand narratives of the past that lie at the heart of the conflict – and which make it so difficult to resolve.
In other reflections on 2022, we look back at a year of scientific successes, from medicine to mathematics via the moon. From the Observer, we remember those we lost over the course of the year, by those who knew them best. There’s a stunning photo gallery featuring work from the agency photographers of the year, and a comprehensive look at the best film and music of 2022 – not forgetting the now traditional roundup of the Guardian Weekly team’s must-see TV.
From Montreal came some hopeful news to round off an otherwise alarming year for the environment. The Cop15 biodiversity summit reached international agreement to try to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, including targets to protect 30% of the planet for nature by the end of the decade and restore 30% of degraded water, coastal and marine ecosystems. Biodiversity reporters Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe Weston have the details.
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