Tag: global affairs

• BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance

  January 14, 2020

  In his influential annual letter to chief executives, Mr. Fink said his firm would avoid investments in companies that “present a high sustainability-related risk.” Laurence D. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-climate-change.html more ›

• Dominic Cummings calls for ‘weirdos and misfits’ for No 10 jobs

  January 11, 2020

  Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, has written a rambling blog calling for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to apply for new jobs within No 10. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/02/dominic-cummings-calls-for-weirdos-and-misfits-for-no-10-jobs more ›

• She Was a Star of New York Real Estate, but Her Life Story Was a Lie

  January 11, 2020

  Wrapped in furs, dripping with diamonds and with her blond hair perfectly coifed, Faith Hope Consolo cut a glamorous figure in the flashy, late 20th-century world of New York City… more ›

• Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future

  January 10, 2020

  Richard Clarke was in Abu Dhabi one morning in 2013 when his phone lit up. “You busy?” a familiar voice said. It was a rhetorical question. The caller was Mohammed… more ›

• UK accused of ‘behaving like cowboys’ over EU database copying

  January 10, 2020

  The British government has been accused of “behaving like a bunch of cowboys” after a confidential report revealed it had allowed illegal copying of an EU database. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/uk-accused-of-behaving-like-cowboys-over-eu-database-copying more ›

• The Shadow Commander

  January 7, 2020

  Last February, some of Iran’s most influential leaders gathered at the Amir al-Momenin Mosque, in northeast Tehran, inside a gated community reserved for officers of the Revolutionary Guard. They had… more ›

• 58 Words and Phrases That Got Us Through a Crazy Decade in Business

  January 5, 2020

  Brexit. Bigly. Fiscal cliff. Hipster antitrust. You can learn a lot about the decade we just got through by recalling the language we used—invented, repurposed, or plucked from obscurity—to describe it.… more ›

• 12 Articles That Changed My Views Over the Past Decade

  January 1, 2020

  Hi, it’s Nicolas from The Family. Today, I’m sharing articles that were published over the past decade and which had a profound impact on me. https://europeanstraits.substack.com/p/12-articles-that-changed-my-views more ›

• Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil’s Far Right

  December 30, 2019

  Olavo de Carvalho’s anger has inspired a number of Brazilian far-right politicians, the country’s president among them. Editor’s Note: This article is part of our “Democracy Undone” series about the… more ›

• What do we call Hong Kong’s nameless “2019 protests” in 2020?

  December 28, 2019

  It was Confucius who extolled the “rectification of names.” “If names be not correct,” he said, “language is not in accordance with the truth of things. https://qz.com/1772558/what-do-we-call-hong-kongs-2019-protests-in-2020/ more ›