Monocle on Saturday (August 17, 2024): Why are the Swiss Alps the perfect setting for creativity?
Join us for a special programme from the St Moritz Makers & Shakers festival as we meet Swiss high jewellery designer Angelo de Luca, yoga instructor Viviana Ferrari and Rémy Bailloux, co-founder of Garde-Manger patisserie and delicatessen. With Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé, Sophie Grove and Nic Monisse.
In her first major policy speech, the vice president argued that her Republican opponent was too focused on the past, painting herself as someone who would protect the middle class for generations.
As Kamala Harris visits to unroll her economic agenda, Democrats in the state are feeling hopeful. Working against her is over four decades of Republican victories, interrupted only by Barack Obama.
The militant group has vowed to retaliate against Israel for the assassination of a commander. But if that leads to an all-out war, Lebanon may turn against it.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (August 17, 2024): The latest issue features..
The chair will lay the groundwork for the Fed’s next phase of monetary policy. It will be the highest-stakes event for the economy and markets this fall.
A 65-year-old retiring today can expect to spend an average of $165,000 in healthcare expenses throughout retirement, up nearly 5% from last year, according to Fidelity.
The vice president’s speech in Raleigh puts her squarely to the left of President Joe Biden, Barron’s ideas editor writes.
Economists and policy makers at the Federal Reserve symposium will probe the effectiveness and transmission of monetary policy, which took unorthodox turns in the past 15 years.
On John Constable’s The Hay Wain & the foundations of the West.
We write as The New Criterion’s annual period of aestivation enters its home stretch. The cicadas are buzzing, the days are noticeably shorter, and the leaves—some of them—are already edged with brown. Certain summers feature quiet expanses of lazy days. This one was different. In July, Donald Trump, except for the tip of his right ear, dodged a would-be assassin’s bullet; Joe Biden dropped (or, we now know, was pushed) out of the 2024 presidential race but, as of this writing, remains president; Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president, stepped into the vacancy and magically became the new candidate for president, choosing the Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
@nplusonemag (August 16, 2024): The ‘Inside Job’ issue features Pope Fiction, My AI Could Paint That, Literal Death Drive, Raven Leilani on Grief Writing; Biden – A Retrospective and A Satire by Saidiya Hartman…
The Globalist Podcast (August 16, 2024): We give you the latest on Ukraine’s Kursk offensive and the significance of Kyiv’s forces capturing its largest Russian town so far.
Plus: South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, seeks dialogue with the North, and Andrew Mueller’s weekly news roundup.
The offensive was developed in secret, devised to divert Russian troops away from the front lines in Ukraine and seize territory to use as a bargaining chip.
People close to President Biden say he believes he could have won a second term. But he came to realize that the fight would rip apart the Democratic Party that he had served his whole life.
More than 200 civilian settlers on a contested island in the South China Sea find themselves on the frontier of a possible conflict with China.
The Biden administration said it would have saved $6 billion had the new prices been in effect last year.
HARVARD MAGAZINE (August 15, 2024): The latest Academic Freedom and Free Speech – Contendin means, and meanings…
Robert Post explains how they differ—and why it matters, especially now by Lincoln Caplan
The impact on global GDP is likely six times greater than previously estimated.
The microbiome may be socially exchanged, modulating both health and metabolism.
Why social interactions are as vital as food and water by Erin O’Donnell
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We relaunch our presidential-election model for a transformed race
The superpower faces more adversaries, new technologies and less-confident allies
The country’s forces should be careful not to overreach
The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them
