MONOCLE RADIO (February 23, 2025): Emma Nelson is joined by Latika Bourke and Stephen Dalziel to discuss the week’s biggest stories. Plus: Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins us from Bangkok and Monocle’s senior news editor, Christopher Cermak, reports on the latest German election news from Berlin.
Tag Archives: Politics
The New York Times – Sunday, February 23, 2025
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, broke a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman remains in place with a new president.
The Unabashedly Provocative Youth Driving Germany’s Far Right
A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in pre-election polls.
Shocked by Trump, Europe Turns Its Hopes to Germany’s Election
Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s response to a changing America.
In Trump’s Alternative Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change
The New York Times – Saturday, February 22, 2025
Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants
The move would be a drastic escalation by the White House to militarize immigration enforcement.
F.D.A. Firings Decimated Teams Reviewing A.I. and Food Safety
Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.
Russia Talks Peace While Troops Threaten New Region in Ukraine
Moscow’s forces are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a province they have never invaded. If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.
Fate of Bibas Family Recalls Trauma of Oct. 7, Renewing Fears for Gaza Truce
Hamas said it had returned the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two sons. The Israeli military announced that the boys were murdered in Gaza and that Ms. Bibas’s body was that of someone else.
Reason Magazine ————April 2025 Preview
REASON MAGAZINE (February 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads’…
Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward. Stephanie Slade
How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor
“Officially, it was a voluntary departure. But I sure felt like I’d been pushed out.” Roger Pielke Jr.
The American Right Is Abandoning Mises
The Austrian economist’s principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right. Brian Doherty
Harper’s Magazine – March 2025 Preview
Harper’s Magazine (February 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Round Two – Trump’s Futile War Against The Deep State; Listening for the Future of Music; RAchel Cusk on Marin Amis and The Softer Side of American Conspiracy Theories…
Rage Against the Machine
Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy by Andrew Cockburn
New World Symphonies
Listening for the future of music by Matthew Sherrill
The New York Times – Friday, February 14, 2025
Order to Drop Adams Case Prompts Resignations in New York and Washington
The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District and five officials with the federal public integrity unit quit after the Justice Department ordered charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.
Trump Says He’ll Rework Global Trading Relations With ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs
The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.
Senate Confirms Kennedy, a Prominent Vaccine Skeptic, as Health Secretary
The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.
‘Risk of a Collision and Loss of Life’: D.C. Crash Warnings Were Years in the Making
Concerns that a deadly collision could occur at Reagan National Airport had long been building. But attempts to draw attention to potentially dangerous conditions sometimes went unheeded.
The Economist Magazine – February 15, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Battle for the Pentagon‘ – Can Donald Trump remake American defense?
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?
America’s security depends upon their success
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
Europe has a chance to catch up, whereas America should ease up
Countering China’s diplomatic coup
China has turned much of the global south against Taiwan. That could be laying the ground for forced unification
Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?
He is on track to win the election, but to fix Europe he will have to fix his country first
The Guardian Weekly – February 14, 2025 Preview
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features The Orbánisation of America…
We’re just over three weeks into the second Donald Trump administration, and the pace of events both inside and outside the US has been dizzying and unprecedented.
Many of us have been alarmed by Trump’s shocking pronouncements on the Israel-Gaza war, trade tariffs and territorial claims on Greenland and Panama. But inside America, an equally startling transformation has been taking place.
Aided by the tech billionaire Elon Musk, Trump has moved swiftly to fire critics, reward allies, punish media, gut the federal government and exploit presidential immunity. Yet much of the blueprint comes not from Trump’s own policy team, but from a power-consolidation playbook established over the past decade by the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán.
The New York Times – Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025
Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Among the topics the leaders discussed in their first confirmed conversation of President Trump’s second term was ending the war in Ukraine, he said.
The Fiercest Fighting of the Ukraine War May Be in Russia
The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a sliver of Russian land. Trapped civilians fear catastrophe.
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
Many Groups Promised Federal Aid Still Have No Funds and No Answers
Judicial rulings have unfrozen some grants awaited by nonprofits, states and companies, but the reprieve has been uneven and many fear the relief is only temporary.
The New York Times – Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2025
Gaza Cease-Fire Imperiled as Netanyahu Threatens to Resume ‘Intense Fighting’
The Israeli leader’s warning came after Hamas said it would indefinitely postpone the next round of hostage releases.
Russia Releases U.S. Prisoner After Talks With Trump Envoy
The Kremlin freed Marc Fogel, a teacher held for more than three years on drug charges, in a deal negotiated by Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy.
Jordanian King Rebuffs Trump Proposal to Displace Palestinians in Gaza
His pushback came after President Trump insisted Tuesday that the United States has the authority to “take” Gaza.
‘I Was Dying’: Salman Rushdie Testifies About Terrifying Stabbing Attack
The author recounted in vivid testimony the moment when an attacker stabbed him about 15 times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
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