We give you the latest on the war as Russia ramps up its attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and Volodymyr Zelensky lays out conditions for “genuine” peace talks. Plus: the US midterm elections and what the results mean for Ukraine, a flick through today’s papers and a check-in from Dubai Design Week.
Tag Archives: Politics
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?
Views: The New York Times Magazine – Nov 6, 2022
The Democrats’ Last Stand in Wisconsin
With the G.O.P. in control of a majority of statehouses, Democrats are fighting for seats in battleground states. Is it too late?
The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine
Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.
A Championship Season in Mariachi Country
Every year along the Texas border, high school teams battle it out in one of the nation’s most intense championship rivalries. But they’re not playing football.
Political Analysis: Final Midterm Campaign Issues
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the final hours of the midterm campaign and the factors that could determine the outcome.
Previews: The Guardian Weekly – November 4, 2022
Inside Guardian Weekly – For readers of the Guardian Weekly magazine’s North American edition this week, the cover focuses on the Democrats’ precarious hopes in the midterm elections. Elsewhere, the spotlight shines on the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.
The US midterm elections next week could see a Republican party still dominated by Donald Trump gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. David Smith asks whether an intervention by former president Barack Obama could give a late kickstart to the Democrats’ hopes.
Cautious optimism followed the last Cop conference in Glasgow, where an international roadmap was agreed to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating. On the eve of this year’s summit, however, a slew of alarming reports have shown that carbon emissions are still rising.
Previews: Foreign Affairs Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022
Inside Foreign Affairs November/December 2022 issue:
The World According to Xi Jinping
What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
Russia’s Dangerous Decline
The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
The Sources of Russian Misconduct
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov 7, 2022
Inside the The New Yorker Magazine, November 7, 2022:
How Election Subversion Went Mainstream in Pennsylvania
In the state’s midterms—which could determine the balance of the Senate and the integrity of the Presidential race in 2024—Democrats are fighting for the vote. Republicans are fighting to undermine it.
Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?
As the head of General Electric, he fired people in vast numbers and turned the manufacturing behemoth into a financial house of cards. Why was he so revered?
Is the Multiverse Where Originality Goes to Die?
The concept helps entertainment companies like Marvel Studios recycle old characters—but it can also unlock new kinds of storytelling.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Oct 29, 2022
Rishi Sunak’s promise of stability is a low bar for Britain
Reasons to be cheerful are scant
Will Iran’s women win?
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy
India’s next green revolution
The country’s clean-energy push shows a way to escape the coal addiction
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 31, 2022
Will Sanctions Against Russia End the War in Ukraine?
D.C. bureaucrats have worked stealthily with allies to open a financial front against Putin.
How Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution
A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.
Sergio García Sánchez’s “Old Haunts”
The artist discussed Día de todos los santos and taking inspiration from the Old Masters.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Sergio García Sánchez
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