Our cover this week: Our last issue of the year always honors the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost over the past twelve months.
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) December 23, 2021
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Category Archives: Politics
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.
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.
Cover Previews: Harper’s Magazine – January 2022
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.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – December 27
Politics: The New Normal Has Arrived, Metaverse Lords, Future Of Europe
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the Christmas double issue of The Economist. This week: has the new normal already arrived? Plus, meet the lords of the metaverse (10:10) and, a century apart, two men with very different dreams contend for Europe’s future (17:50).
Sunday Morning: News From Zurich, London, Amsterdam And Tokyo
Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé and panellists Eemeli Isoaho and Chandra Kurt discuss the weekend’s biggest news stories. Plus: we check in with our friends and correspondents in London, Amsterdam and Tokyo.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Georgina Godwin and the weekend’s biggest topics. Vincent McAviney reviews the newspapers, Andrew Mueller explains what we’ve learned this week and Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck is back with his weekend column.
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