A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the outlook for the world economy, how worried you should be about Elon Musk’s superpowers (12:50), and a study allays fears that covid vaccines harm menstrual cycles (16:50).
Category Archives: Opinion
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 17, 2022
The Post-Roe Abortion Underground
A multigenerational network of activists is getting abortion pills across the Mexican border to Americans.
Italy’s Great Historical Novel
Henry James decried the nineteenth century’s “loose baggy monsters,” but a new translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s “The Betrothed” demonstrates the genre’s power.
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Cover: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 9, 2022
Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines
Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash.
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading the way.
The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair
Lydia Millet believes the natural world can help us become more human.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
Inside Russia’s “Filtration Camps” in Eastern Ukraine
Civilians describe being snatched from their homes and sent away for ideological screening, prolonged detention, and, in some cases, starvation and torture. Is there a larger plan at work?
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.
Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.
Opinion: How Not To Run Britain, Xi Jinping ‘Grasped’, Fathers Shrinking Brains
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, Britain in crisis: how not to run a country. Also, how to make sense of China’s president (10:00), and why becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (18:05).
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – October 3, 2022
How to Invest for the Next 10 Years
The investment landscape is shifting. Here’s how to build a plan for long-term success—along with some stocks, bonds, and funds that can help you reach your goals.
Brazil’s Election Is Almost Here. Get Ready to Buy Petrobras Stock.
The Fed Is Starting to Break Things. Stocks Are Paying the Price.
The U.K.’s Sudden Bond Buying Is Setting Off Global Alarm Bells
House Prices Are Cooling Down. But That Doesn’t Mean We’re Heading for a Bust.
The Fed Put Isn’t Dead, but It’s Still a Long Way Off
Previews: The Economist Magazine – October 1, 2022
How not to run a country
Liz Truss’s new government may already be dead in the water
Hurricane Ian pummels Florida
The Sunshine State has seen 40% of America’s hurricanes and a huge population boom
Ukraine War Analysis: Time Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
Opinion: A New Look Gulf, Putin’s Desperate Draft & The Google-Meta Duopoly
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, a new-look Gulf, Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization (10:45), and the Google-Meta advertising duopoly (15:00).
Analysis: Biden Rebukes Putin, Republican Politics
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden’s rebuke of Russia and Putin at the U.N. and the state of Republican politics.
