Dove va il mondo

“The EU confronts huge challenges. These include accelerating innovation, deepening financial integration, protecting its security and maintaining the values of freedom, democracy and social welfare on which its society has been built since the second world war”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Martin Wolf Link: The EU must build on past successes

In the final season of “Succession,” the HBO drama about a fictional media clan, the show’s grisly patriarch, Logan Roy, dishes out some characteristically choice words to his privileged children: “I love you, but you are not serious people.” Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Merissa Marr Link: What Does Rupert Murdoch Do Now?

“Americans have complained about media bias for years, and it’s hard to deny that they’re on to something. The country is divided rather evenly along partisan lines: While Donald Trump comfortably won the Electoral College, the popular-vote margin fell within 2 points. Yet the media, including mainstream sources, rarely tries to appear neutral. From news […]

“At this time of year, many policymakers want to know how fast their economies will grow in the year ahead. China’s leaders set themselves a still tougher question: how fast their economy “should” grow. They are seeking not a forecast but a target”. Fonte: The Economist Link: What a censored speech says about China’s economy

“The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria should be a reminder of a general truth that often gets obscured in the blizzard of conflicting and contradictory news stories that absorb us day to day: The West’s adversaries are often weaker than we think”. Fonte: The Washington Post Autore: Fareed Zakaria Link: Russia is weaker […]

“AFTER 53 YEARS in power, the house of Assad left behind nothing but ruin, corruption and misery. As rebels advanced into Damascus on December 8th, the regime’s army melted into the air—it had run out of reasons to fight for Bashar al-Assad. Later, Syrians impoverished by his rule gawped at his abandoned palaces. Broken people […]

“This is my final column for The New York Times, where I began publishing my opinions in January 2000. I’m retiring from The Times, not the world, so I’ll still be expressing my views in other places. But this does seem like a good occasion to reflect on what has changed over these past 25 […]

“Has rapid economic growth in the world’s high-income countries come to an end? If so, did the bursting of the bubble economy in 2007 mark the turning point? Alternatively, are we at the start of a new age of rapid growth fuelled by artificial intelligence? The answers to these questions are likely to do much […]

“With the mosque’s glittering decorations providing a backdrop, Ahmed al-Sharaa described the fall of the house of Assad as “a victory for the Islamic nation” and called for reflection and prayer”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Jason Burke Link: Syria’s new leader has two identities – but which one will take the country forward?

Liberals moving away from X are giving up on the 20th-century ideal of a public sphere, best described by Hannah Arendt as a place that “gathers us together and yet prevents our falling over each other.” Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Clay Shirky Link: The Fragility of Bluesky’s Difference