【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Nicki Minaj calls herself T's 'number one fan' and shows off gold card visa 正文：Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper Nicki Minaj declared herself to be T's "number one fan" on Wednesday, while also showing off her T "gold card" visa, which offers applicants residency and a path to US citizenship. The US President called the star up on stage in Washington DC after she announced her support for the so-called "Trump Accounts", which provide trust funds for children. Previo...
Feb 07, 2026•7 min•Ep. 91
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Born of a Factory Mistake, This Sad Toy Horse Captures China’s Mood A manufacturing error turned a Lunar New Year toy into an unlikely emblem of workplace fatigue. 正文：A frowny-faced horse plushie, the result of a factory mistake, has become the internet’s unofficial mascot for the Lunar New Year. Fans say it resonates with overworked office employees. When Vivian Hao, a 39-year-old editor in China’s Anhui Province, came across the red horse plushie on social media...
Feb 06, 2026•20 min•Ep. 92
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：British PM starts China visit amid intensive trips by Western leaders; Starmer tells delegates ‘you're making history’ 正文：Accompanied by around 60 British business and cultural leaders, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for an official visit to China through Saturday. Addressing business delegates in Beijing, Starmer was quoted by BBC as saying, "on this delegation, you're making history. You're part of the change that we're bring...
Feb 05, 2026•12 min•Ep. 93
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Chinese AI is a risk for Europe. So is shunning it Especially now that America is becoming a less reliable partner 正文： On January 20th 2025 DeepSeek was an obscure hedge-fund-turned-tech-startup from Hangzhou. Within a week it had become the byword for a new wave of Chinese innovation, after launching an artificial-intelligence model as capable as Silicon Valley’s bleeding edge but much cheaper to build and run. Having slugged it out in China’s cutthroat domestic ...
Feb 04, 2026•35 min•Ep. 94
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Gold tops $5,000 for first time ever, adding to historic rally 正文：The price of gold has risen above $5,000 (£3,659) an ounce for the first time ever, extending a historic rally that saw the precious metal jump by more than 60% last year. 知识点： ounce n. /aʊns/ a unit of weight equal to 28.35 grams 盎司 • Gold is traditionally measured and traded in troy ounces. 黄金传统上以金衡盎司计量和交易。 • Every ounce of effort contributes to the final success. 每一分努力都对最终的成功有贡献。 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，...
Feb 03, 2026•10 min•Ep. 95
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Another horrifying shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis What happens when armed men are given impunity 正文：THE LATEST shooting by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis unfolded just after 9am on January 24th. At least half a dozen masked Border Patrol agents were conducting a “targeted operation”, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), when they encountered a man on a part of Nicollet Avenue known as “Eat Street” and tackled him. A vide...
Feb 02, 2026•16 min•Ep. 96
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China Moves to Ban ‘CEO Romance’ Dramas Due to Fears Young Women Are Being Fed Billionaire Delusions 正文：China is taking aim at a wildly popular entertainment genre that has captivated millions of young women across the country: micro dramas featuring romance between ordinary women and ultra-wealthy CEOs. According to sources, authorities have announced plans to regulate these short-form video dramas, which typically run just a few minutes per episode and are consu...
Feb 01, 2026•10 min•Ep. 97
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Chloé Zhao Is Yearning to Know How to Love 正文：Chloé Zhao is an anomaly. At only 43, with just five feature films under her belt, she has already established herself as one of cinema’s most distinguished and distinctive directors. And she has done it at a time when the movie business is increasingly averse to artistic risk and originality — two qualities on shimmering display in all her work. 知识点： anomaly n. /əˈnɒməli/ something that is unusual or unexpected and do...
Jan 31, 2026•12 min•Ep. 98
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Health experts scramble to contain outbreak of deadly Nipah virus Two nurses at a hospital in India are infected with the bat-borne pathogen that inspired the Hollywood film Contagion 正文： Two cases of Nipah virus, a rare, bat-borne pathogen, have been confirmed in an Indian hospital, prompting a nationwide alert as well as local quarantine and surveillance measures. The cases, both in nurses working at the private Narayana Multispeciality Hospital in Barasat, West...
Jan 30, 2026•20 min•Ep. 99
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T is Making China—Not America—Great Again, Global Survey Suggests 正文：. A year after T’s return to the White House, a 21-nation survey conducted by the influential European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank reveals a striking global perception: the U.S. president’s “America First” agenda appears to be bolstering China’s rise rather than restoring American dominance. 知识点： conduct /ˈkɑːndʌkt/ (n.) behavior; the way someone acts 行为；举止 e.g., His conduct du...
Jan 29, 2026•12 min•Ep. 100
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers. 正文：Until recently, Harvard was the most productive research university in the world, according to a global ranking that looks at academic publication. That position may be teetering, the most recent evidence of a troubling trend for America...
Jan 28, 2026•16 min•Ep. 101
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A new generation of Chinese companies is expanding around the world 正文：A few years ago it would have been hard to imagine Chinese brands making it big in America. Yet today shoppers in Manhattan can pop by the 2,800-square-metre store of Urban Revivo to pick up one of the Chinese retailer’s trendy outfits, which are all the rage on TikTok, a short-video app owned by ByteDance, another Chinese company. They can follow that up with a latte from Luckin Coffee, which ...
Jan 27, 2026•12 min•Ep. 102
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds —— by Ivan Zhao 正文：Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds. If history teaches us anything, those who master the material define the era. 知识点：infinite adj. /ˈɪnfɪnət/ having no limit or end. 无限的 e.g. A parent's patience sometimes feels infinite, but it can be tested by a toddler's tantrums. 父母的耐心有时感觉是无限的，但也可能被幼儿的脾气所考验。...
Jan 26, 2026•14 min•Ep. 103
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Beckham v Peltz Beckham: Could Brooklyn torpedo the family brand? Brooklyn Peltz Beckham has claimed "performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships" were a fixture of his life. 正文：Sir David and Lady Beckham's son has accused them of putting "Brand Beckham" first as they built up their global image and business empire. His bombshell statement threatens to derail both their public reputation and their private life. 知识点：accuse /əˈkjuːz/...
Jan 25, 2026•12 min•Ep. 104
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. 正文：Across social media, people are proclaiming that “You met me at a very Chinese time of my life,” while performing stereotypically Chinese-coded activities like eating dim sum or wearing the viral Adidas Chinese jacket. The trend blew up so much that celebrities like...
Jan 24, 2026•15 min•Ep. 105
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：‘Like an Earthquake’: How 40 People Died in a Spanish Train Crash 正文：Salvador Jiménez was on a high-speed train to Madrid on Sunday evening, speeding through the arid countryside of southern Spain, when the carriage shook so violently that he thought it had hit an animal on the tracks. 知识点：speed v. /spiːd/ to move or travel quickly 快速行进；疾驰 • Cars sped along the motorway late at night. 夜深时，汽车在高速公路上疾驰。 • The train was speeding through the countryside. 列车正飞速穿过乡村。 获取外...
Jan 23, 2026•8 min•Ep. 106
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：‘China’s POTUS’ told us how he went viral. And yes, it started as a bet 正文：Employing the casual hyperbole of his presidential idol, the “Chinese POTUS” gave our interview a 67 out of 10. He said it calmly. Cheerfully. With absolute confidence. Like people do when they’re standing in a megacity with fans seemingly on every street corner. Here in Chongqing, southwestern China, population 32 million, business manager Ryan Chen has mastered an impression so uncanny th...
Jan 22, 2026•16 min•Ep. 107
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What the collapse of Iran's regime would mean Thousands have died and America has threatened to strike back against the horror there 正文：WHEN PROTESTERS took to the bazaars and streets of Iran, the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, met them with bullets. After two weeks of chants of “death to the dictator”, militiamen allied with the Revolutionary Guards and toting automatic rifles rode in on swarms of motorbikes. With snipers, they shot their fellow citizens, aiming a...
Jan 21, 2026•22 min•Ep. 108
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid puts meat, dairy at the top. What you should eat? 正文：If you’re eating several servings of fruits and vegetables daily, avoiding ultraprocessed foods and baking your chicken instead of frying it, you’re already following some of the newly updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 知识点：serving n. /ˈsɜːrvɪŋ/ A single portion of food or drink; the amount of a food item typically consumed at one time. 一份食物或饮料；通常一次食用的食物量。 · Adults should aim fo...
Jan 20, 2026•10 min•Ep. 109
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s ‘Are You Dead?’ app checks in on growing cohort of people living alone Popularity among Chinese Apple users highlights concerns created by rapidly changing demographics 正文：An app called “Are You Dead?” that checks up on people living alone has become the most popular paid Apple Store download in China, a sign of concerns created by the country’s rapidly changing demographics. The app, called Sile Me in Chinese, requires users to “check in” by pressing a bu...
Jan 19, 2026•18 min•Ep. 110
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The White House weighs how to acquire Greenland Leaders in Greenland and Denmark are in shock. Is the president serious? 正文：T’s appetite in the western hemisphere appears insatiable. Just a day after snatching Nicolás Maduro, Mr. T set his sights on Greenland. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” the president told reporters on January 4th. His allies amplified the message. Stephen Miller argued American control was necessary to secure the...
Jan 18, 2026•18 min•Ep. 111
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The options America faces in Iran T promises to “rescue” Iranian protesters. How could he try? 正文：To hear T tell it, the end of the Islamic Republic is nigh. “Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” he announced on social media on January 10th. “The USA stands ready to help!” The American president has made similar pronouncements every few days since a wave of protest began sweeping Iran on December 28th. He warned that America is “locked and loade...
Jan 17, 2026•20 min•Ep. 112
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Is Life a Game? 正文：Every summer for the past few years, I’ve taught a multiday seminar for philosophy professors who want to write for magazines. The seminars involve a fair amount of after-dinner chitchat under the stars, during which talk often winds its way to the weirdness of being a professional philosopher. It turns out, for instance, that philosophy departments are ruled by rankings. A single website, the Philosophical Gourmet, ranks graduate programs in ph...
Jan 16, 2026•11 min•Ep. 113
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：American Violence Is Pushing Families to Think About Leaving 正文：The one group in the United States most interested in leaving the country and permanently living somewhere else is American women ages 15 to 44. According to Gallup, 40 percent of women polled in my age bracket expressed this desire, double the rate of all U.S. adults. That tells me that the women who are building their lives and the lives of the next generation are looking for the exit. 知识点：permanent...
Jan 15, 2026•12 min•Ep. 114
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：These Teenagers Are Already Running Their Own AI Companies They might not yet drive, but they’re getting an early start in business by leveraging vibe-coding and social media. 正文：Like any good tech founder, Nick Dobroshinsky puts in late nights and early mornings working on his startup. But this particular founder doesn’t have much choice: Between 8 a.m. and 2:55 p.m., he’s in high school. He’s 15. “Around the end of eighth grade, I wanted to make some sort of bus...
Jan 14, 2026•20 min•Ep. 115
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：As new jobs in finance dry up, New York City’s fiscal model is wilting 正文：At 270 PARK AVENUE in midtown Manhattan, employees have moved into the immense new headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. The building boasts 2.5m square feet of office space and is almost 1,400 feet tall—more or less the same as the Empire State Building. Measuring an entire city block across, and built by a bank whose market capitalisation is climbing towards $1trn, the building gives the impress...
Jan 13, 2026•23 min•Ep. 116
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：America chases down the shadow fleet serving Venezuela POTUS is determined to enforce its oil blockade 正文：It was a slow-motion naval chase. Last month in the Caribbean the US Coast Guard attempted to board the Bella 1, an oil tanker used to smuggle oil in defiance of American sanctions. The attempt failed. Weeks later the Bella 1 turned up in the Atlantic with a new name (the Marinera) and a new flag (Russian). A Russian submarine was en route to protect it. But o...
Jan 12, 2026•23 min•Ep. 117
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Venezuela’s Crisis Is No Accident: How Oil and Intervention Shaped a State How Chávez’s unfinished revolution, U.S. interventionism and strategic oil politics culminated in the 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro. 正文：Hugo Chávez’s ascent to power in 1998 was rooted in domestic collapse rather than ideological novelty. His victory reflected the exhaustion of Venezuela’s political system, entrenched inequality and the social consequences of economic reforms that had deli...
Jan 11, 2026•23 min•Ep. 118
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Rage bait, goblin mode … do words of the year have any real value? Analysis shows obscure and barely used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time 正文： If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another one? 知识点：bait /beɪt/ (n. & v.) n. food used to attract fish or animals; something used to tempt sb 诱饵；诱惑物 v. to put bait on a hook or in a trap...
Jan 10, 2026•7 min•Ep. 119
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro 正文：In August, a clandestine team of C.I.A. officers slipped into Venezuela with a plan to collect information on Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, whom the Trump administration had labeled a narco-terrorist. 知识点：clandestine adj. /klænˈdɛstɪn/ Kept secret or done secretly, often for an illicit purpose. 秘密的，通常是为了非法目的而秘密进行的。 • They held a clandestine meeting in a hidden location. 他们在一个隐蔽的地点...
Jan 09, 2026•9 min•Ep. 120
