New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including October surprises in the U.S. and crises on the world stage with just a month until the midterms.
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Preview: The Economist Magazine – Oct 8, 2022
A new macroeconomic era is emerging. What will it look like?
A great rebalancing between governments and central banks is under way.
For months there has been turmoil in financial markets and growing evidence of stress in the world economy. You might think that these are just the normal signs of a bear market and a coming recession. But, as our special report this week lays out, they also mark the painful emergence of a new regime in the world economy—a shift that may be as consequential as the rise of Keynesianism after the second world war, and the pivot to free markets and globalisation in the 1990s.
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).
News Analysis: Hurricane Ian, Right-Wing Politics
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the state and federal response to Hurricane Ian and recent election victories by right-wing political parties across Europe.
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
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – October 3, 2022
The New Yorker Magazine – October 3, 2022
The Shock and Aftershocks of “The Waste Land”
T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece is a hundred years old, but it has never stopped sounding new. By Anthony Lane
Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart.
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.
News: Elections In Italy, Ukraine Reacts To Russia Mobilization, Lisbon Arts
Italy heads to the polls – will the far-right come to power? Plus: the response in Ukraine to Russia’s mobilization, the latest technology news and Lisbon’s celebration of artisanal craftsmanship.
