Tag: global

• Globalisation: why it went into retreat

  August 6, 2022

  In a speech in Washington, D.C. in 2019, ex-British prime minister Tony Blair declared that ‘globalisation is a force of nature, not a policy; it is a fact.’ He echoed President Bill Clinton back in 2000: ‘Yet… more ›

• The Orient Express Is Resuming Its Legendary Journeys From Paris—and It’s More Glamorous Than Ever

  August 6, 2022

  The train that forever changed luxury travel almost 140 years ago—it debuted on October 4, 1883—is being brought back to life by French hospitality group Accor, which uses the Orient… more ›

• What it’s like being a woman in Afghanistan today: ‘death in slow motion’

  July 30, 2022

  On early Monday morning, just before the break of dawn, a 23-year-old Afghan journalist packed her bags, said quiet goodbyes to her family and left her home in a carefully… more ›

• Inside the global gig economy of werewolf erotica

  July 25, 2022

  Platforms are hiring gig workers around the world to write steamy romance novels for English-speaking readers. The emerging web novel industry spans the globe, taking a business model from Asia,… more ›

• Panama Papers Whistleblower Speaks Out: “Shell Companies are Putin’s Best Friend”

  July 23, 2022

  The anonymous whistleblower behind the bombshell leak known as the Panama Papers has emerged anew to warn how offshore companies are enabling Russia’s war machine. John Doe issued a manifesto weeks… more ›

• French Gallerist Cecile Fakhoury On The Contemporary African Art Scene

  July 10, 2022

  Abidjan, Dakar and Paris: the Ivory Coast-based art gallery owner Cécile Fakhoury today runs three eponymous spaces in three different world capitals dedicated to artists from the African continent, defending… more ›

• Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

  July 1, 2022

  Near a sharp bend on the Itaquaí River, perched on a steep muddy bank, a lone wooden structure marks the last outpost of a fragile resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/amazon-brazil-drugs-fish-logging-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira more ›

• The New Geography of the Russian Elite

  June 19, 2022

  Before the invasion of Ukraine, private jets taking off from Moscow flew to Paris, Milan and Geneva more often than anywhere else. Departures from Russia, Feb. 1 to Feb. 24.… more ›

• American Rasputin

  June 8, 2022

  There are certainly enough of them. He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he’s forever pecking away, issuing pronunciamentos with incontinent abandon—after midnight; during commercial breaks for his… more ›

• The Gene-Synthesis Revolution

  May 29, 2022

  Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. Today Twist charges nine cents a base pair for DNA, a nearly tenfold… more ›