Tag Archives: Political Magazines
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 26, 2022
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “#fallstyle”
The artist discusses Charlotte Gainsbourg, Uggs, and finding inspiration on Instagram.
Was Rudy Giuliani Always So Awful?
A lively new biography explores how the man once celebrated as “America’s mayor” fell into disgrace.
By Louis Menand
From Boy to Bono
I was born with melodies in my head, and I was looking for a way to hear them in the world.
By Bono
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Sept 10, 2022
Can Liz Truss fix Britain?
The new prime minister must eschew pantomime radicalism if she is to succeed. The sceptics have many reasons to be dubious—yet underestimating Liz Truss is a mistake her opponents have already made to their cost.
Previews: Foreign Affairs Magazine – Sept/Oct 2022
Foreign Affairs at 100 – The Magazine Marks a Century
The Beginning of History
Surviving the Era of Catastrophic Risk – By William MacAskill
The Dangerous Decade – A Foreign Policy for a World in Crisis By Richard Haass
Preview: The Economist Magazine – Sept 3, 2022
American states are now Petri dishes of polarisation
Only electoral reform can make them work properly
Two states, two very different states of mind. On August 25th California banned the sale of petrol-powered cars from 2035, a move that will reshape the car industry, reduce carbon emissions and strain the state’s electricity grid. On the same day in Texas a “trigger” law banned abortion from the moment of conception, without exceptions for rape or incest. Those who perform abortions face up to 99 years in prison.
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.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – August 20, 2022
Will Donald Trump run again?
And, if he does, would Republicans pick him as their nominee?
What kind of prime minister will Britain get?
It will be a technocrat who knows what to do, or a politician who knows how to do it
Preview: The Guardian Weekly – August 19, 2022
Joe Biden’s political capital is riding high after a key plank of his legislative programme came to fruition. But the US president has greeted this “hot streak” in his usual quiet fashion. For his predecessor, it was a decidedly rough week after his home was raided by the FBI, looking for official documents that Donald Trump had held on to after his presidential term had ended. The reaction was a typical explosion of rage and accusation. David Smith, our Washington bureau chief, follows this compare-and-contrast theme to see which of the two men, who at this juncture still look likely to face each other again in the 2024 presidential election, came out on top.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 22, 2022
Nicole Rifkin’s “Sun-Dappled”
The artist on her creative process and finding inspiration among artistic friends. By Françoise Mouly, Art by Nicole Rifkin
Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation.
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