GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS
Chastened Trudeau gets back to work after Canada delivers poll shrug: The prime minister has seized the center-ground in politics but lost his early energy.
FT
+ The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be limited to spectators who reside in China. Tickets will be sold to residents who meet COVID-19 prevention requirements
France’s humiliation by America will have lasting effects: Snubbed over subs, President Emmanuel Macron is even keener to build up European autonomy.
Economist
+ "You can’t lose four elections and not change." -- Sir Keir Starmer when asked if he is moving the Labour party away from ‘the left.’
DISRUPTION + INNOVATION
Climate change is the new dot-com bubble: The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet. There's just one problem: We can't afford another bust.
Wired
The future of getting there: Sustainability is an enormous question for cities and governments around the world. Carmakers and others are busy coming up with ideas about what mobility-to-come might look like.
FT
COMMERCE
The BlackBerry and me: What the near-extinct device says about aging and nostalgia.
Janan Ganesh
Petrol, pints, and pasta: Meet one of the lorry drivers plugging Britain’s shortages: Barry Davies supplies Britain with everything from avocados to papier-mâché dinosaurs – now truckers like him are in short supply. What drives him?
1843 Magazine
+ In a 2016 Harvard Business Review analysis, two writers calculated the annual cost of excess corporate bureaucracy as about $3 trillion, with an average of one manager per every 4.7 workers
CULTURE
Ma Yansong takes LA: How the quiet force behind George Lucas’ museum makes his mark
LAT
The real appeal of reality stars: Reality shows bring “ordinary people” into our homes as entertainment, presenting celebrities to us “cafeteria-style.”
JSTOR
SPORT
The NBA’s richest owner enters the arena arms race: WP reports Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft executive turned Los Angeles Clippers owner, broke ground on the Intuit Dome, which aims to be pro basketball’s premier arena. The Intuit Dome, which will be part of a complex that also houses the Clippers’ business offices and practice facility, could eventually cost more than $2 billion.
‘Do you know how to snowboard?’: Saudi Arabia tries out for its first Winter Olympics: Desert kingdom prepares for next year’s Beijing Games with an indoor ski slope at a Riyadh mall as its off-season base.
WSJ
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