AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatar2 days agoSatellite Images Show North Korea’s Increasing IsolationThe Wall Street Journal. - Liyan QiNorth Korea, already one of the world’s most isolated countries, has walled itself off further over the past years, data and satellite images show, with devastating effects for its population. Satellite images and trade data analyzed by Human Rights Watch document how when Covid-19 hit, North Korea …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo4 days agoIs Rahm Emanuel the 'Japan hand' Democrats have been searching for?日本経済新聞 - Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- Monday marks two years since Rahm Emanuel, U.S. President Joe Biden's ambassador to Japan, presented his credentials to Emperor …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarMar 21The hidden costs of Biden’s steel protectionismverified_publisherThe EconomistEver since news broke in December of the acquisition of US Steel, an iconic industrial firm, by Nippon Steel, a Japanese competitor, opponents have …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarMar 22What do plummeting birth rates mean for the future of the planet?The Spectator - Annabel DenhamFew Britons will have heard the phrase ‘apocalyptic winter’, but that may soon change. It’s how Italian politicians describe the season when deaths in the country outstrip births. In Italy, the total fertility rate (TFR), the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime, is now 1.24, …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA Map of Global Happiness By Country in 2024visualcapitalist.com - Pallavi RaoHappiness, like love, is perhaps one of the least understood and most sought-after emotions and experiences in human life. And while many inspiring …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarWhy aren’t American voters happier with the economy?verified_publisherThe EconomistIt’s not long since America was widely thought to be on the brink of recession. Instead the economy expanded by 3% in 2023, and continues to defy …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAre religions simply cults that have gone mainstream?bigthink.com - Jonny ThomsonHow would you feel if your next-door neighbor was in a cult? What if your son or daughter came home to inform you they had joined a “community of …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarMaking sense of the gulf between young men and womenverified_publisherThe EconomistMen and women have different experiences, so you would expect them to have different worldviews. Nonetheless, the growing gulf between young men and …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarFrancis Ford Coppola on how The Godfather was a stark warning for the USverified_publisherBBC Culture - Myles BurkeIn these exclusive BBC Archive clips, Francis Ford Coppola reveals how The Godfather's world of organised crime reflected the behaviour of post-World War Two US.
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarWhat the softening of the Sun says about Britainverified_publisherThe EconomistON ROLLS of microfilm, in the archives of the British Library, lie the remnants of a lost civilisation. Twenty years ago, in March 2004, the Sun was …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarThe history of the West is not quite what you learned in schoolverified_publisherThe EconomistHow the World Made the West. By Josephine Quinn. Random House; 592 pages; $38. Bloomsbury; £30 Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma …
AvatarJorge J TakahashiAvatarAvatarWestern values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’sverified_publisherThe EconomistInternational | Thinking for themselves People’s principles were expected to align as countries got richer. What happened? IN 1981 OVER 40% of the …