The Globalist Podcast (July 22, 2024): The latest as President Joe Biden ends his candidacy for re-election. What’s next for the Democratic party as the race for the US presidency enters uncharted territory?
Also, Global coverage of President Biden dropping out with a flick through the international papers and analysis of how markets are reacting.
The president’s withdrawal under pressure from fellow Democrats cleared the way for a new nominee to take on former President Donald J. Trump in the fall. He quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
Vice President Kamala Harris got off to a rocky start in office. She is now at the heart of a political drama that could make her the first woman of color to become a major party presidential nominee.
Advisers and major givers said they were being inundated with enthusiasm and plans for donations to support Ms. Harris if she won the nomination.
Democratic voters said they were relieved that President Biden was ending his campaign, but many said they remain worried about the political path ahead.
The strike was retaliation for a drone attack launched from Yemen a day earlier, which evaded Israel’s defenses and hit a building in Tel Aviv, killing one person.
As he recovers from Covid, the president has grown resentful toward Democratic congressional leaders and former President Barack Obama.
The effort, which includes expansive advertising and polling, assumes that the vice president would be the most likely candidate to replace the president at the top of the Democratic ticket.
To keep it from Russian forces, a writer hid his last manuscript under a cherry tree. Its rediscovery became part of a flowering of interest in Ukrainian literature.
Monocle on Saturday (July 20, 2024): Latika Bourke and Georgina Godwin look through the week’s biggest news and culture stories.
Also, Thomas Heyne, co-founder of Scorpios, discusses ‘Encounters’, this year’s cultural programme at Scorpios Mykonos, which brings together art, nature and technology.
President Biden has repeatedly tried to erase the concerns over his age and mental acuity. But nothing has changed the narrative.
Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.
The Wall Street Journal reporter’s trial on espionage charges was widely viewed as a sham outside Russia. But the verdict could set the stage for a prisoner exchange.
The world’s richest man, once deeply skeptical of Donald J. Trump, has now endorsed him and has emerged as a central character in the presidential race.
The Globalist Podcast (July 19, 2024): US-based journalist HJ Mai joins us for the latest from the Republican National Convention as it wraps up in Milwaukee.
Also on the programme: we discuss Japan’s urgency to seek greater engagement to counter China’s influence in the Pacific as leaders meet in Tokyo. And: two weeks on from a Labour landslide in the UK general election, we ask political editor George Parker about the future of the Conservative Party. Plus: we get Andrew Mueller’s wonderful and wacky take on ‘What We Learned’ this week.
Donald Trump and his team displayed a ruthless efficiency in the process of making a platform, confiscating delegates’ cellphones and stifling dissent and even debate.
One person familiar with President Biden’s thinking cautioned that he had not yet made up his mind to leave the race, after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out.
The former speaker has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with President Biden that his re-election is in serious doubt.
The potential second lady models a new kind of Republican image-making.
The anti-globalist MAGA enthusiast is more consequential than the average veep pick
Investors’ exuberance in the face of political ructions is unlikely to pay off
Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?
Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
France is desperately searching for a government
The Globalist Podcast (July 18, 2024): EU leaders are deciding today on whether to reappoint Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president. But what would her second term look like?
Then: we examine the reforms being proposed in China’s third plenum and look at Joe Biden’s announcement on Supreme Court changes. Plus: the latest from Dhaka as protests escalate and we discuss the Emmy Awards nominations.
It started with a meeting at Mar-a-Lago more than three years ago. Later, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and other key allies made direct appeals on his behalf.
The president has given no indication that he is changing his mind about staying in the race but is said to be more willing to listen to the case for bowing out.
There is growing anxiety that the country’s political divide is nearly beyond repair, and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump only made things worse.
Even though local police were on the lookout for a suspicious man, critical minutes ticked by, allowing a would-be assassin to slip past, a Times analysis found.
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