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25
Feb

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,
24
Feb

Note: Set adrift

Set adrift. The first move was economic: On February 13, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to
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23
Feb

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
23
Feb
Shocks from underground

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.
10 min read
20
Feb
Speaking Russian in Riyadh

Speaking Russian in Riyadh

Member’s despatch, Week VIII
19 min read
18
Feb

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’
18
Feb
‘Gold rush’

‘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.
12 min read
16
Feb

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
16
Feb
Men in gray

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.
11 min read
13
Feb
Retreat from Europe

Retreat from Europe

Member’s despatch, Week VII
17 min read