Could Poland crash out of the EU? Plus: Spanish citizens sue the government over “illegal” lockdown laws and what we learned this week.
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Morning News: Violence In South Africa, Booster Shots, Decline Of Baseball
Widespread looting and the worst violence since apartheid continue, exposing ethnic divisions and the persistent influence of Jacob Zuma, a former president. How to quell the tensions?
As some countries administer third covid-19 “booster shots” we ask about the epidemiological and moral cases for and against them. And the bids to reverse the decline of America’s national pastime.
Morning News: Record Heat In U.S., $3.5T Health Plan & Cuba Protests
U.S. West dealing with record heat, Senate Democrats agree to $3.5 trillion healthcare and antipoverty plan, and this is the ‘best place’ to live in America.
Morning News: Global Corporate Tax Hurdle, Virgin Galactic In Space
A.M. Edition for July 12. WSJ’s Paul Hannon on how the international plan for a corporate minimum tax may face hurdles with U.S. lawmakers. Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight.
Big U.S. bank earnings are expected this week. Companies see business opportunities in stressed-out Americans. Keith Collins hosts.
Morning News: Unrest In Peru, Haiti Assassination, Dutch Writer Shooting
We hear the latest on the unrest in Peru and about the reaction to the shooting of a prominent Dutch journalist known for investigating the mob. Plus: a round-up of the latest aviation news.
Morning News: Syria & UN Aid, Hong Kong & Airbnb Restrictions In France
The latest on the UN Security Council showdown over humanitarian aid for Syria. Plus: we find out about Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam’s call for parents to monitor their children’s political beliefs and the French cities that are imposing restrictions on Airbnb.
Morning News: Tokyo Olympics Controversies, V.P. Politics & Freedom
The Olympics are less than three weeks away and over this past weekend we saw three big headlines, all having to do with restrictions that have primarily affected women of color and intersex people.
And it’s left many fans wondering who these Olympic rules are actually serving.
- And, infighting in the Vice President’s office.
- Plus, Noah Feldman — and you — on what freedom means in America now.
Guests: Axios’ Ina Fried, Margaret Talev and Harvard University constitutional law professor Noah Feldman.
Morning News: America’s Afghanistan Exit, Media Companies & Race Horses
Passport queues are lengthening; ad-hoc civilian militias are strengthening. As foreign powers bow out, Taliban militants take district after district—and the fear of the people is palpable.
The pandemic drove a boom in the attention economy, and media companies happily obliged. Now, it seems, an “attention recession” looms. And a look at the thoroughly inbred nature of thoroughbred horses.
Morning News: Covid-19 Delta Variant, Ethiopian Conflict, 4th of July Films
The coronavirus’s Delta variant accounts for ever more infections; we ask about mutational surprises yet to emerge, and what can be done about them.
The ousting of Ethiopia’s army from the Tigray region might precipitate far wider conflict—within the country and far beyond its borders. And ahead of the Fourth of July, we find no good films about the holiday.
Morning News: Future Of China’s Communist Party, Record Canada HeatWave
We discuss Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s future, as the country marks one hundred years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Plus: we round up the latest urbanism news and look closer at Canada’s sweltering heatwave.
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