The New York Times Magazine – February 26, 2023:
Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when a writer immersed himself in a Covid oral-history project, he realized how much we’re still missing.
After losing crucial seats in the congressional midterms, a bitter civil war over the moribund state organization has spilled into the open.
After a year of fighting, what comes next?
How the media failed Julian Assange – Every year on the first of December, the Committee to Protect Journalists publishes its global prison census, documenting the number of journalists behind bars around the world. The 2022 edition set a grim record: 363 jailed journalists.
The business of books and the merger that wasn’t
Online chess reshapes the game of kings
February 20, 2023: A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why inflation will be hard to bring down, Peter Obi’s plans to transform Nigeria (9:55) and a promising step towards a male contraceptive pill (15:20).
Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past?
As unrest roils the country, a controversial figure from the far right helps Benjamin Netanyahu hold on to power.
When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.
The New York Times Magazine – February 19, 2023:
What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?
The Nashville songwriter Shane McAnally is behind many of country music’s No. 1 hits, which aren’t as straight as they seem.
How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately have set it on a path to being outlawed.
Investors are betting on good times. The likelier prospect is turbulence
They will damage the country at home and abroad
David Malpass’s record is better than his many critics will credit
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how chatbots will influence the lucrative business of internet search, the parable of Adani (11:25) and why France is arguing about work, and the right to be lazy (19:50).
The New York Times Magazine – February 12, 2023:
The U.S. prosecuted Brian Lemley for threats, not violence. Is that what it takes to fight extremism?
“There are people who don’t know how to spell, they don’t know how to think,” says the bestselling novelist.
A poem that shakes us awake, enacting and preserving the fugitive possibilities of “healing from the law.”
The Guardian Weekly (February 10, 2023) – Three years have passed since Britain officially left the European Union, but the country feels a long way from the “sunlit uplands” once memorably envisioned by Boris Johnson. Indeed, according to several polls released last week, more of the British population than ever are unhappy with the outcomes of Brexit – including, crucially, those who voted for it in the first place.
The Observer’s Michael Savage and Toby Helm consider what’s behind the upsurge in “Bregret” and ask what realistic hopes exist of Britain ever returning to the bloc. Then, opinion writer Nesrine Malik warns that, while many on the left may see validation in the current trends, it’s important to understand many of the UK’s structural problems stem from before the time of the Brexit referendum in 2016.
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