A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the disunited states of America, why Britain can’t build (9:15) and Pakistan’s worst floods in recent memory (17:05).
Tag Archives: Politics
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 12, 2022
George Balanchine’s Soviet Reckoning
New York City Ballet’s 1962 tour of the U.S.S.R. forced the great choreographer to confront the regime he’d fled and the people he’d left behind.
John Cuneo’s “Top Dog”
The artist discusses canine stars, his first trip abroad, and keeping a sense of the spontaneous in his work.
Previews: The Guardian Weekly – September 2, 2022
Burn out: Inside the 2 September Guardian Weekly
The spiralling cost of living has been an increasingly urgent problem in the UK. But for many people, huge rises in energy bills are about to turn a difficult situation into an impossible one.
Stories: World Real Estate Markets Wobble, Cities As War Zones, What ‘Data’ Is
As interest rates rise, lots of pandemic-era property trends are fading—but not every market is equally vulnerable as the boom peters out.
Generals have long avoided fighting in cities: it is messy and dangerous. Increasingly, though, they have no choice. And our language columnist on the subtle question of whether “data” is plural or singular.
Opinion: Sanctions On Russia, Debt Forgiveness, Work Commute Waste
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, are sanctions on Russia working? Plus, Joe Biden’s sweeping debt-forgiveness plan (10:00) and in defence of commuting (15:10).
News Stories: Drought And Famine In Somalia, Hollywood Fights Back
Our correspondent reports from Somalia, which stands on the brink of famine thanks to a drought, soaring food costs and infrastructure destroyed by decades of fighting.
Old Hollywood studios are waging an epic battle against their upstart streaming rivals. And why London’s cemeteries are selling used graves.
Preview: The Economist Magazine – August 27, 2022
Are sanctions working?
- China’s changing debt diplomacyTime to work with Western creditors
- Gene tweaking: a new era beginsScience has made a genetic revolution possible
- How diversity training can backfire?Many programmes may do more to protect against litigation than to reduce discrimination
- Streaming wars: dragons v hobbitsA century-old studio wages a big-budget war against a streaming upstart
Preview: The Guardian Weekly – August 26, 2022
Life and death: Inside the 26 August Guardian Weekly
Six months of hell in Ukraine. Plus: recession stalks Europe.
The troop buildups, the belligerent speeches, the excruciatingly staged Kremlin policy meetings … for months, the signs had been there in plain sight. Nonetheless, the order in the early hours of 24 February from Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine came as a lightning bolt, one that would change Europe for years to come.
Headlines: Russia-Ukraine War At 6 Months, Student Debt Cancellation Plan
A.M. Edition for Aug. 24. After six months of war in Ukraine, battlefield momentum is tilting against Russia even as the conflict shows few signs of slowing.
WSJ reporter Marcus Walker and Moscow bureau chief Ann Simmons explain how officials in Kyiv and Moscow view the current state of war and their respective paths to victory. Luke Vargas hosts.
Opinion: Will Trump Run In 2024, Visa-Mastercard, A New British Prime Minister
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, will Donald Trump run again? Also, the future of the Visa-Mastercard payments duopoly (9:35) and, what kind of prime minister will Britain get? (21:45).
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