A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, Europe’s crisis of energy and geopolitics, how crypto goes to zero (10:19) and the consequences of America’s success against organised crime (16:32).
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Preview: The Economist Magazine – Nov 26, 2022
Europe faces an enduring crisis of energy and geopolitics
This will weaken it and threaten its global position
Disney brings back a star of the past. But its real problem is the script
Hollywood is suffering from the brutal economics of streaming
Russian “offshore journalists” need help, not hindrance
Europe should let them do their jobs
Previews: The Guardian Weekly, November 25, 2022
Cop27’s climate anticlimax: inside the 25 November Guardian Weekly | Cop27 | The Guardian
Cop27 ended in a now-traditional blur of last-minute horse-trading, resulting in the welcome agreement of a finance deal for developing countries affected by global heating. But progress on eliminating fossil fuel usage – the key to slowing climate change – again seemed beyond the international community.
As winter descends on Ukraine, we focus on some of the war’s ripples around Europe. Jennifer Rankin reports from Antwerp, where the continued trade in Russian diamonds shines a light on loopholes in EU sanctions on Moscow. And Emma Graham-Harrison is in eastern Poland, where people’s proximity to the war is helping people to put aside past differences.
Then, in features, Luke Harding speaks to the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island – who famously sent an expletive-laden rebuttal to a Russian warship at the start of the conflict – and finds out what happened next.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov 28, 2022
Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
Climate Change from A to Z
The stories we tell ourselves about the future.
An Alaskan Town Is Losing Ground—and a Way of Life
For low-lying islands like Kivalina, climate change poses an existential threat.
THE BLADE RUNNERS POWERING A WIND FARM
In West Virginia, a crew of five watches over twenty-three giant turbines.
Analysis & Opinion: Is It The End Of Crypto?, Indonesia Matters, A New Trumpist
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, is this the end of crypto? Also, why Indonesia matters (11:00) and Glenn Youngkin’s unique approach to Trumpism (19:40).
Perspectives: Harper’s Magazine – December 2022
Apocalypse Nowish
The sense of an ending
You Talkin’ to Me?
Martha Stewart Living
by Martha Stewart, Chelsea Handler
His Folk Nation
No Times Like the Present
A Forest of Berlin
Political Analysis: Trump’s Effect, Imagine Peace In Ukraine, Qatar World Cup
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the Trump effect, (10:30) imagining peace in Ukraine and (18:00) should fans watch the World Cup in Qatar?
Previews: The Guardian Weekly November 11, 2022
Benjamin Netanyahu is nothing if not a fighter. Having been ousted as Israel’s prime minister a year ago by an alliance of political foes and now embroiled in a corruption trial (he denies all charges), one might have thought the 73-year-old’s career was up.
The Cop27 climate talks got under way in Egypt, as debate raged over the agenda as well as a furore over hosting the event in a country where political and human rights are a live issue. Environment editor Fiona Harvey explains what the talks – which run until 18 November – can hope to achieve, amid a slew of alarming reports about the rate of global heating.
This week’s magazine went to press too soon to feature news of the US midterm elections – there’ll be plenty on that in the next edition. In the meantime, Leyland Cecco reports from Canada, where there are claims China is operating a chain of clandestine police stations to keep tabs on its diaspora.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov 14, 2022
The Case Against the Twitter Apology
Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.
Emma Thompson’s Third Act
The actress and screenwriter takes on a musical.
Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward?
They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.
Analysis: Climate Policy Is Off Target, Qatar’s World Cup, Worries About Exams
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, climate policy is off target, (10:40) Qatar’s World Cup isn’t quite over the goal line and (18:35) why do people who worry about exams do worse?
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