Tag: politics

• The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently

  March 5, 2020

  Concierge doctors, yachts, chartered planes and germ-free hideaways. The new coronavirus knows no national borders or social boundaries. That doesn’t mean that social boundaries don’t exist. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/style/the-rich-are-preparing-for-coronavirus-differently.html more ›

• How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

  March 3, 2020

  The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States Haskell… more ›

• Pompeo in Senegal: Africa caught in US-China trade war

  February 17, 2020

  Mike Pompeo has arrived in Senegal on his first trip to Africa as US secretary of state. He is expected to discuss security and economic cooperation with President Macky Sall.… more ›

• China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.

  February 17, 2020

  This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and the Pulitzer Center. The Amazon tends to evoke an Edenic vision—of a mysterious and impenetrable land, pregnant with beasts from jaguars… more ›

• He Combs the Web for Russian Bots. That Makes Him a Target.

  February 11, 2020

  Ben Nimmo helped pioneer disinformation investigations. His work is now more urgent as misleading internet tactics spread. HADDINGTON, Scotland — In August 2017, Ben Nimmo was declared dead by 13,000… more ›

• This apartment design predicts a dystopian future of hunting and gathering for food and using canoes to get around — see inside

  February 9, 2020

  “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore” shows a vision of domestic life 50 years out, when rising ocean levels have flooded cities, and people are forced to grow their own foods and… more ›

• One year inside Trump’s monumental Facebook campaign

  January 30, 2020

  A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters by in San Francisco As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling… more ›

• Steve McQueen: ‘It’s all about the truth, nothing but the truth. End of’

  January 26, 2020

  First he was a Turner prize-winning artist, then a Oscar-winning film director. Now, with a knighthood and a Tate Modern retrospective, he explains why he’s still angry – and still… more ›

• Where Iran Goes to Party – Air Mail

  January 25, 2020

  TBILISI, Georgia—On a day when some 70 Iranians protested outside the Iranian Embassy here against the killing of General Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-1-25/where-iran-goes-to-party more ›

• In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how

  January 23, 2020

  What is human civilisation if not the result of all the stories we’ve been told? Centuries of evidence have shown that storytelling can change the course of history. Radical imagination,… more ›