Monocle on Sunday, July 21, 2024: Marcus Schögel, Priska Amstutz and Gabe Bullard join Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, to discuss the weekend’s hottest topics.
We also speak to Monocle’s design editor, Nic Monisse, for the view from London and Monocle’s Asia editor, James Chambers, has an update from the region. Plus: the co-founder Bonjour Jacob, Hani Behlacene, joins from Paris ahead of the Olympics.
The strike was retaliation for a drone attack launched from Yemen a day earlier, which evaded Israel’s defenses and hit a building in Tel Aviv, killing one person.
As he recovers from Covid, the president has grown resentful toward Democratic congressional leaders and former President Barack Obama.
The effort, which includes expansive advertising and polling, assumes that the vice president would be the most likely candidate to replace the president at the top of the Democratic ticket.
To keep it from Russian forces, a writer hid his last manuscript under a cherry tree. Its rediscovery became part of a flowering of interest in Ukrainian literature.
The Drift Magazine (July 19, 2024): The latest issue features Maybe fortresses come to violence like an addiction. Maybe the water is just water. The tide abandons what it leaves. We have absolutely no way of controlling the cane toad. “I love anyone who hears my screams.” You ever cry with that knowledge? Do they kiss on the mouth? What will the bears say? I am not yet a trampoline. No doors exist and nobody’s home. Simply because they are eternally young, beautiful, and dead.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 22, 2024 ISSUE:
Donald Trump’s second presidency would mean more spending and inflation. Investors might like it—at first.
More women are reaching the upper tiers of the wealth management industry—just in time for a $30 trillion wealth transfer.
The policy statement recommends a revamp of the Fed’s mandate, balance sheet, and response to financial crises.
Monocle on Saturday (July 20, 2024): Latika Bourke and Georgina Godwin look through the week’s biggest news and culture stories.
Also, Thomas Heyne, co-founder of Scorpios, discusses ‘Encounters’, this year’s cultural programme at Scorpios Mykonos, which brings together art, nature and technology.
President Biden has repeatedly tried to erase the concerns over his age and mental acuity. But nothing has changed the narrative.
Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.
The Wall Street Journal reporter’s trial on espionage charges was widely viewed as a sham outside Russia. But the verdict could set the stage for a prisoner exchange.
The world’s richest man, once deeply skeptical of Donald J. Trump, has now endorsed him and has emerged as a central character in the presidential race.
The Globalist Podcast (July 19, 2024): US-based journalist HJ Mai joins us for the latest from the Republican National Convention as it wraps up in Milwaukee.
Also on the programme: we discuss Japan’s urgency to seek greater engagement to counter China’s influence in the Pacific as leaders meet in Tokyo. And: two weeks on from a Labour landslide in the UK general election, we ask political editor George Parker about the future of the Conservative Party. Plus: we get Andrew Mueller’s wonderful and wacky take on ‘What We Learned’ this week.
Donald Trump and his team displayed a ruthless efficiency in the process of making a platform, confiscating delegates’ cellphones and stifling dissent and even debate.
One person familiar with President Biden’s thinking cautioned that he had not yet made up his mind to leave the race, after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out.
The former speaker has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with President Biden that his re-election is in serious doubt.
The potential second lady models a new kind of Republican image-making.
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Glucagon-like peptide–1–based medicines have weight loss–independent actions
Foraging niches become more specialized toward bird range limits
Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists
The anti-globalist MAGA enthusiast is more consequential than the average veep pick
Investors’ exuberance in the face of political ructions is unlikely to pay off
Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?
Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
France is desperately searching for a government
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