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The article explores the lasting economic and geopolitical impacts of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, examining how the "Iran Shock" continues to shape global oil markets and regional dynamics today.
The baby, who was born Wednesday with a severe heart defect, drew the attention of anti-abortion activists and the Texas attorney general after the intended parents wanted the surrogate mother to have an abortion
Should Andy Burnham deliver a covid style national emergency briefing to inform the public about the climate emergency? How do we foster cross-party consensus on the climate emergency? And, can we balance the need to build data centres and protect the environment? Join Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart and Caroline Lucas as they discuss all of these questions and more. To watch Caroline’s four part series on climate as a national security threat, sign up at therestispolitcs.com Read the red...
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Seeds of Something New The digital age has been kind to Éric Rohmer. One of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave of the 1950s and ’60s, Rohmer remains popular today, thanks to the recent streaming availability of his major films. From La collectionneuse (1967) to A Tale of Autumn (1998), his stories of chatty, fashionable characters who muse about their complicated emotions and personal moral codes at work, on the beach, and in the bedroom, are still as aspirational as they are insig...
How to support the movement resisting the Taliban’s extremism
Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world
The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing
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