【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Justin Trudeau’s reluctant departure will leave his Liberal party in freefall 正文：Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign as prime minister has jolted his ailing Liberal party, kicking off a leadership race that could determine the future – or the demise – of Canada’s “natural governing party”. On a frigid Monday morning, Trudeau said that while “every bone in my body tells me to fight”, a procedural standstill in parliament, as well as his dismal polling numbers, mean...
Jan 08, 2025•13 min•Ep. 481
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:MAGA’s war on talent frightens CEOs—and angers Elon Musk American businesses’ ability to tap the world’s human capital is under threat 正文：Foreigners are taking good American jobs. Some of the very best, frankly. Five of America’s eight trillion-dollar technology giants are run by people born in other countries. Jensen Huang of Nvidia hails from Taiwan; Hock Tan of Broadcom, another chip titan, comes from Malaysia. Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s corporate parent,...
Jan 07, 2025•9 min•Ep. 482
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why Japan is the perfect place to turn 50 A significant birthday feels less so in a country that has become a global pioneer of ageing — for better and for worse 正文：So. A big, round-numbered and menacing birthday coming up in a few weeks. Not to give too much away, but in the month I was born, Momoe Yamaguchi’s Fuyu no Iro was electrifying the charts, Terror of Mechagodzilla was about to hit cinemas, and Okinawa was busying itself with last-minute preparations for...
Jan 06, 2025•13 min•Ep. 483
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Capitalism Killed Squid Game 正文：In an early episode of Squid Game 2, the series’ working-class hero Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is summoned to a dance club on Halloween night. Weaving among revelers dressed as sexy nurses, cops, and skeletons, he eventually spots the masked figure he’s been pursuing, clad in the hot-pink tracksuit of a Squid Game guard. The scene may well be a nod on the part of creator Hwang Dong-hyuk to the ubiquity of Squid Game Halloween costu...
Jan 05, 2025•17 min•Ep. 484
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Events to Shake, or Gently Rattle, the World in 2025 正文：We approach an interesting juncture in 2025: the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. The first 25 years of any century feel a bit foundational. Consider the first 25 years of the 1900s: Orville and Wilbur Wright’s flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903 ushered in the golden age of air travel. In 1917, the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, the seat of the czarist government in St. Petersburg, paving...
Jan 04, 2025•16 min•Ep. 485
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The ironies of Trump’s tantrums about the dollar His policies would cement the US currency’s dominance while undercutting the institutional framework that is its bedrock 正文：US president-elect Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar in order to boost exports, protect American jobs from foreign competition and reduce the trade deficit. He also wants a strong dollar and will not brook any challenges to its dominance in global finance. If that is not enough of an inconsist...
Jan 03, 2025•20 min•Ep. 486
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why you’re not on holiday in India right now A fabulous destination for foreign tourists does little to lure them 正文：Seeing the Taj Mahal was on Bram van der Meij’s bucket list. His wife, however, could not stomach the idea of the long journey. So the 75-year-old Dutch-American made the trip on his own. He took in the “golden triangle” of Delhi (which boasts fine food and architecture), Agra (the Taj Mahal) and Rajasthan (palaces, forts, arts and crafts), before s...
Jan 02, 2025•18 min•Ep. 487
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero The support for the alleged shooter is rooted in an American tradition of exalting the outlaw. 正文：He is from a wealthy and prominent Maryland family, the valedictorian of a prestigious private school, an Ivy League graduate. His family and friends speak of him fondly, and they worried about him when he fell off the grid, some months ago. He is, by consensus, handsome, and jacked. “Holy happy trail, Batman!” Stephe...
Jan 01, 2025•27 min•Ep. 488
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Jimmy Carter, a one-term president who became a globe-trotting elder statesman, dies at 100. 正文：Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of White House scandal and who redefined post-presidential service, died Sunday at the age of 100. Carter had been in home hospice care since February 2023 after a series of short hospital stays. 知识点：vow v. /vaʊ/ vt. to make a formal and serious promis...
Dec 31, 2024•14 min•Ep. 489
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Nearly all 181 on plane that crashed in South Korea presumed dead, fire agency says 正文：All but two of the 181 people who were aboard a Jeju Air flight are presumed dead after the plane crashed while landing at an airport near South Korea’s southern tip Sunday morning, fire authorities said, in what appears to be the nation’s deadliest aviation accident in decades. At least 124 people were confirmed by the National Fire Agency to have been killed as of 3:33 p.m. lo...
Dec 30, 2024•14 min•Ep. 490
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker? And get greener too? 正文：The Venus de Milo; “Mona Lisa”; 250 skulls on a mirrored wall; a six-metre Tyrannosaurus rex. You can see all this and more at “The Art of the Brick”, a touring exhibition currently in Berlin. It is the work of Nathan Sawaya, a former lawyer. His chosen medium? Lego bricks. 知识点：skull n. /skʌl/ the bone structure that forms the head and surrounds and protects the brain颅⾻；头（盖）⾻ • a fractured skull...
Dec 29, 2024•13 min•Ep. 491
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Inside the world of crazy rich Indians The new wealthy elites are younger and more adventurous than the old lot 正文：All of India was transfixed , as February turned to March, by the spec tacle of Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding celebrations in Jamnagar, an unlovely industrial town in western India. Mr Ambani is the son of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and boss of Reliance, a giant conglo merate. 知识点：transfix v. /trænsˈfɪks/ to make sb unable to move because they ar...
Dec 28, 2024•15 min•Ep. 492
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Trump and the power of Mar-a-Lago The former property developer well understands how buildings and spaces can be used effectively as propaganda 正文：Who is currently in charge in the US? Jill Biden? Kamala Harris? President-on-paper Joe Biden? Or is it in fact president-elect Donald Trump? Many signs point to Trump, not least the undeniable reality that the centre of American political power has already shifted about 1,000 miles to the south: from the grand neoclass...
Dec 27, 2024•17 min•Ep. 493
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk’s X Endgame The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch. 正文：After months of negotiation, Congress was close to passing a spending bill on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. Elon Musk decided he had other ideas. He railed against the bill in more than 150 separate posts on X, complaining about the raises it would have given members of Congress, falsely exaggerating the proposed pay increase, and worrying about billions in government s...
Dec 26, 2024•19 min•Ep. 494
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Ten reasons to be cheerful about 2024 正文：Welcome back. In keeping with the Christmas season, I’m rounding off this year as in 2023 by picking out 10 bright spots that shone out in our troubled times. Last December, my list for 2023 included events such as Poland’s parliamentary election result, the award of the Nobel Peace prize to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, and Danish company Novo Nordisk’s launch of the Wegovy weight-loss drug in European co...
Dec 25, 2024•11 min•Ep. 495
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:3-Minute Christmas Market Rampage Shakes Germany 正文：It took an attacker just three minutes to kill five people and wound hundreds by ramming an S.U.V. into a crowded holiday market on Friday night, stunning Germany and shattering the peace of its Christmas season. 知识点：rampage n./ˈræmpeɪdʒ/ a sudden period of wild and violent behaviour, often causing damage and destruction暴跳如雷；狂暴⾏为 • Gangs of youths went on the rampage in the city yesterday.成群结伙的年轻⼈昨天在城⾥横冲直撞。 获取外刊的...
Dec 24, 2024•10 min•Ep. 496
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S. -China Relations 正文：I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai and let me get right to the point: While we were sleeping China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. If no one has told Donald Trump, then I will: His nickname on Chinese social media today is “Chuan Jianguo” — meaning “Trump the (Chinese) Nation Builder” —because of how his relentless China bashing and tariffs during his f...
Dec 23, 2024•13 min•Ep. 497
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year 正文：Mar-a-Lago was quiet three days before Thanksgiving. Donald Trump’s Moorish palace seemed all but deserted late that morning, the seaside estate’s cavernous living room traversed intermittently by a junior staffer or silent aide. Totems to Trump were displayed everywhere. Framed magazines with him on the cover hung by the front door. On a table near the fireplace sat a cast-bronze eagle awarded him by the singer Lee Gre...
Dec 22, 2024•20 min•Ep. 498
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The rights and wrongs of assisted dying Britain’s next great social reform is coming. Here’s how it should work 正文：Britain has become a much more li beral country in recent decades. In 1981 only 12% of Britons thought that homosexua lity was justifi the propor able, according to the World Values Survey; in 2022 the figure was 66%. Over the same period tion of people who were accepting of divorce rose from 18% to 64%. Where the public has led, politicians have foll...
Dec 21, 2024•16 min•Ep. 499
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:A Weary Biden Heads for the Exit 正文： It was a long day in Angola. President Biden had already visited a port facility bracketed with cranes and toured a factory filled with conveyor belts. So by the time he sat down at a large wooden circular table in a warm, stuffy room with African leaders, he put his head in his hand and briefly closed his eyes as the speeches droned on. Flying across the world would have tired even a president younger than 82. But the point, a...
Dec 20, 2024•19 min•Ep. 500
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Masa Son is promising a massive investment in Trump’s America. Don’t hold your breath 正文：Another day, another enigmatic billionaire turning up at Mar-a-Lago to pump up the Donald Trump brand as the president-elect prepares to return to the White House 知识点：enigmatic adj./ˌenɪɡˈmætɪk/ Someone or something that is enigmatic is mysterious and difficult to understand. 神秘难解的 • She starred in one of Welles's most enigmatic films. 她主演了威尔斯最神秘的电影当中的⼀部。 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信...
Dec 19, 2024•9 min•Ep. 501
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Silicon Valley Heads to Mar-a-ago The tech industry’s Trump taboo is quickly becoming a distant memory. 正文：The days of tech CEOs tussling with Donald Trump are fading. After distancing themselves from Trump during his first administration—and publicly rebuking him after the events of January 6, 2021—many Silicon Valley leaders are now taking a softer approach. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have each pledged, through their companies or thei...
Dec 18, 2024•23 min•Ep. 502
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk is Donald Trump’s disrupter-in-chief The entrepreneur will be let loose on America’s government 正文：In 2017 Elon Musk branded Donald Trump a “con man” and “one of the world’s best bullshitters”. Now he is known at Mar-a-Lago as Uncle Elon and is in the president-elect’s inner circle. This week they watched a rocket launch together. The alliance of the world’s leading politician and its richest man creates a concentration of power both want to use to explo...
Dec 17, 2024•18 min•Ep. 503
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:South Korea’s president is impeached Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law destroyed his presidency. For the country the reckoning has just begun 正文：The day of reckoning has arrived for Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president. The country’s National Assembly voted on December 14th to impeach him for his short-lived attempt to impose martial law earlier this month. Outside the assembly, crowds of tens of thousands erupted into cheers and applause when the resul...
Dec 16, 2024•23 min•Ep. 504
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Climbing Everest is the extreme sport du jour More people are reaching the summit, but more people are dying on the way, too 正文：Climbing mount Everest used to be a feat of staggering bravery,endurance and skill. In the 40 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit in 1953, an average of 12 people a year followed in their footsteps. In 2023 more than 1,200 people attempted the climb, with 655 making it to the top. 知识点：feat n. /fiːt/ ...
Dec 15, 2024•14 min•Ep. 505
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What would get China’s consumers spending? Clues from a grocer in a fourth tier city 正文：On a regular Tuesday morning, a large crowd has gathered outside a grocery store in Xuchang, a city of 4m people. Visit Pangdonglai at the weekend and things are even busier. Thousands, some having travelled hundreds of kilometres, arrive before dawn to take their place in a queue that snakes back and forth in front of the store’s entrance. At a time when China’s ritziest shopp...
Dec 14, 2024•18 min•Ep. 506
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Nvidia’s profit smorgasbord attracts an ant invasion China’s antitrust authorities aren’t the only ones eyeing the chipmaker’s hold over the market 正文：Is it worse to be disliked or ignored? Nvidia is too big for the latter, so the former will have to do. The chipmaker that dominates the market for artificial intelligence hardware is in the crosshairs of Chinese antitrust regulators, other chipmakers, and maybe even its own customers. These mounting challenges are ...
Dec 13, 2024•15 min•Ep. 507
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Murder at Dawn: A Top Executive’s Final Moments in Manhattan 正文：UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor day began much like any other corporate event. There was breakfast and then around 8 a.m. Wednesday the collection of investors, executives and Wall Street analysts filed into a capacious third-floor ballroom at the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan to hear upbeat presentations about the company’s future. Unbeknown to them, one of the company’s top executives had b...
Dec 12, 2024•14 min•Ep. 508
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The Most Hyped Bot Since ChatGPT Remember Sora? 正文：For more than two years, every new AI announcement has lived in the shadow of ChatGPT. No model from any company has eclipsed or matched that initial fever. But perhaps the closest any firm has come to replicating the buzz was this past February, when OpenAI first teased its video-generating AI model, Sora. Tantalizing clips—woolly mammoths kicking up clouds of snow, Pixar-esque animations of adorable fluffy critt...
Dec 11, 2024•24 min•Ep. 509
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Bashar al-Assad, an Ophthalmologist Who Became a Dictator, Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty 正文：Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t expected to be the last of the line for his family’s despotic dynasty, either—at least not this soon. A lightning advance by Syrian rebel groups took just over a week to roll throu...
Dec 10, 2024•16 min•Ep. 510
