GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS
The age of America first: Washington’s flawed new foreign policy consensus.
Richard Haass
Bombard the headquarters: Xi Jinping's crackdown keeps growing: The new 'common prosperity' doctrine hearkens back to the Mao era.
Nikkei
From big bang to a whimper: How to revive Britain’s stock market: London’s once high-flying bourse has spent the past decade tumbling back to earth.
Economist
DISRUPTION + INNOVATION
How artificial intelligence completed Beethoven’s unfinished Tenth Symphony: On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released.
The Conversation
COMMERCE
Clubhouse needs creators, but creators need cash: Hosts looked to Clubhouse for sponsors — it rarely delivered.
Verge
Jony Ive teams up with Ferrari to develop electric car: Former Apple designer’s LoveFrom signs deal with Agnelli family’s Exor.
FT
Electric Motor City: Ford and General Motors fight it out to electrify: The switch to battery power is the latest showdown between Detroit’s heavyweights.
Economist
CULTURE
The redemption of a televangelist: For decades, the mascara-laden Tammy Faye was relentlessly mocked. Maybe America got her wrong.
Jonathan Merritt
+ There are around 71,000 wild horses in the United States, with the bulk of them in Nevada with 43,000
Why is every young person in America watching ‘The Sopranos’? The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: A parable about a country in terminal decline.
NYT
SPORT
Sports gambling is a disaster waiting to happen: Betting on Tom Brady’s next completion may sound like harmless fun. But it’s not.
Will Leitch
+ 24.8m+ people played at least 1 round of golf in the US in 2020, a 2%+ increase YoY (the biggest jump in 17 years)
A rock star’s next act: Making Montana a skateboarding oasis: Jeff Ament, the bass guitarist and a founder of Pearl Jam, is seven years into his self-appointed mission to bring high-end skate parks to every city and town in Montana that will have one.
NYT
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