Months after her own presidential dreams sputtered to a halt, Kamala Harris will now get another shot at the Democratic ticket. A year ago, the California senator had surged to the front of a crowded field of candidates on the back of a series of strong debate performances – and […]
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Emails between UK socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in a trove of unsealed court documents. Epstein tells Ms Maxwell she has done “nothing wrong” in the 2015 exchange, which appears to contradict her earlier claims of not having contacted him. And […]
FROM OUR OBSESSION Because China Even small changes in China have global effects. Like many of his colleagues in the Hong Kong civil service, V. has a calendar pinned up in his office cubicle. But his stands out: it features a slogan supporting the city’s pro-democracy protest movement. “My calendar […]
FROM OUR OBSESSION Global Economic Disruptions Globalization, automation, and inequality. With people staying home and whole industries shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic there is significantly less commerce than there used to be. Definitionally, this means that the sum of all of that commerce—known as GDP—has declined. Analysts and […]
FROM OUR OBSESSION Big Tech Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. Some products become a lot more valuable when you are forced to sit at home all day due to a pandemic. A serendipitous study of consumers in the UK tells us exactly which ones. From Feb. 27 […]
FROM OUR OBSESSION The Third Age of TV First came broadcast, then cable, now streaming. Most companies are having a tough time these days. Netflix, however, is doing just fine. The streaming service revealed today that it added more than 10 million global subscribers in the second quarter, beating both […]
Early in the morning of Feb. 23, an aircraft took off from Vienna carrying 25 metric tons of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks and gloves, to China. The city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged, had been in lockdown for a month. Nearly 2,500 people had died across the […]
Nigerian moviegoers could soon be feeling like they’re going back in time. Over the next 12 months, as many as five 1990s classic films in Nigeria’s Nollywood movie industry are getting either a sequel or being remade. It’s a growing trend as the local box office continues to mature given […]