Analysis: Xi Jinping's plan to rule for life is coming together: Third historical resolution and 2035 'common prosperity' target outline path forward.
Nikkei
US politics: Virginia governor’s race offers first test of Biden presidency: Victory for a Republican former private equity executive would serve as a warning for Democrats before next year’s midterms.
FT
Electric cars are shifting the center of the auto universe: EV’s are giving the South and Southwest a one-time chance to wrest control of the US automobile industry from the Midwest.
Conor Sen
+ “We are going through the greatest realignment of global value chains in our lifetime.” -- Mauricio Claver-Carone, president, Inter-American Development Bank
A Facebook rebrand could be a huge risk: Renaming the social media giant would be a way to deflect attention away from its content problems. A troubling but shrewd move.
Parmy Olson + Ben Schott
Using recycled cathodes makes better lithium batteries, study finds: The materials create a more porous structure for the ions to negotiate.
Jonathan Gitlin
+ Bitcoin rallied to a record, topping $66,000 for the first time
The true cost of upgrading your phone: Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee.
NYT
+ PayPal is exploring a $45 billion acquisition of Pinterest
It’s quitting season
Lindsay Crouse + Kirby Ferguson
Review: 'The French Dispatch' is a film of 4 quirky stories
AP
+ OTD: In 1992 the singer Madonna released her 128-page coffee-table book Sex, containing erotica and sexual fantasies.
Christian Horner: ‘You have to defend yourself if you come under attack’
Guardian
+ Red Bull’s team principal on his spiky rivalry with Toto Wolff and why a Max Verstappen title win would be his ‘biggest achievement’
In the new NFL, teams are scoring on two-minute drives like never before: Over the past two decades, NFL teams scored a little more than 13 percent of the time when getting the ball with less than two minutes left in a one-score game. This season, offenses have scored on almost 30 percent of such drives.
WP
Get Brigadoon ITK Daily in your inbox.
