Note: ‘Millions Are Lost (Are We All in This Together?)’
111MHz: ‘Millions Are Lost (Are We All in This Together?).’ Half of the great early 2000s British duo Johnny Boy,
Note: Set adrift
Set adrift. The first move was economic: On February 13, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to
Note: ‘Una Cumbia en Kinshasa’
‘Una Cumbia en Kinshasa.’ From the new album Mapambazuko, this is a collaboration between the Peruvian musician Alejandra Cárdenas—aka
Shocks from underground
What’s driving the terrible conflict in Congo? The 2025 Oscar-nominee Johan Grimonprez on a history of violence and the costs of global competition over critical minerals.
Speaking Russian in Riyadh
Member’s despatch, Week VIII
Note: ‘Ô Signe des Temps (Iueke Dub Remix)’
‘Ô Signe des Temps (Iueke Dub Remix).’ In 1986, the Québécois artist Bernardino Femminielli put together a cover of Prince’
‘Gold rush’
How is AI changing global energy consumption? Nicholas Kumleben on the sudden transformation of the power industry—and its implications for climate change.
Note: ‘When We Swam Together’
111 MHz: ‘When We Swam Together.’ The Lebanese composer and producer Fadi Tabbal is back with I Recognize You From
Men in gray
What’s the Trump administration doing to the U.S. federal bureaucracy? Francis Fukuyama on the real drivers of waste in the American civil service and the democratic peril in attacking it politically.
Retreat from Europe
Member’s despatch, Week VII