CENTER ON RACE, POVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

This monthly series features conversations between FT reporters and the most influential business leaders, innovators and academics working in sustainability, energy and the environment.

April 22, 2024

Political books

US 2024 election: The 10 books to read ahead of the ballot in November

...There is no shortage of great books on the race for the White House, and the state of the US presidency and politics in general....

March 19, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

The Big Read

How the UK is falling behind on tackling child poverty

...The party says that it will “focus on reducing child poverty” as one of its key “five missions” for government....

March 17, 2024

UK society

Fastest rise in UK child poverty for 30 years, data shows

...The share of children living in absolute poverty in the UK has risen by its highest rate for 30 years, official data shows, triggering outcry from charities which called on the government to urgently overhaul...

March 21, 2024

Special ReportFuture of Water

Space agencies race to find water on the moon

...habitable environment....

March 22, 2024

News

Alisa Weilerstein, Kennedy Center review — skill and emotional intelligence

...asked my husband, a keen amateur cellist and great admirer of the virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein, before Saturday’s double bill at the Kennedy Center. “I don’t quite know,” I admitted....

April 11, 2024

FT Live

Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?

Exclusively for FT subscribers

ReviewTheatre

Corruption, Lincoln Center review — energetic drama lifts the lid on the UK’s phone-hacking scandal

...delightful Olympian candour) to underwrite the costs of taking on the News of the World....

March 13, 2024

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

High-profile governorship race now on the cards in North Carolina

...The down-ballot race — viewed by both parties as crucial — is expected to be expensive....

March 6, 2024

Letter

Letter: Who consigned China’s millions to poverty?

...The more important and zeitgeisty question is, who doomed those millions into poverty in the first place?...

March 19, 2024

Frank Field

Former Labour minister and peer Frank Field dies aged 81

...A director of the Child Poverty Action Group, he became Labour MP for Birkenhead on Merseyside in 1979, establishing a reputation as a campaigner against poverty....

April 24, 2024

Verity Harding

What the cold war space race can teach us on AI

...“space race.”...

March 13, 2024

US Election Countdown

The billionaire helping Trump hold on to his real estate

...This is particularly notable in what is expected to be a tight race. But Kennedy has his work cut out for him. Utah is the only state that has confirmed he is on the ballot....

April 4, 2024

Pollution

Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race to go ahead despite ‘dangerous’ pollution in Thames

...The situation has also cast doubt on whether the winning team will stick with the long-running tradition of jumping into the river after the race, which attracts about 250,000 spectators along a four-mile...

March 28, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Climate revelations and reminders — a round-up of environment books

...In the natural world, meanwhile, the science journalist Olive Heffernan offers a disturbing new take on marine matters in The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean (Profile Books, £22...

April 15, 2024

Letter

Letter: Ministerial assurances on biosecurity border checks

...from the EU aren’t being introduced on April 30....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia

Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability

FT Schools

Psychology class: Spa wars — the race to be the best retreat in the world

...Specification: Biopsychology Click the link below to read the and then answer the questions: Spa wars — the race to be the best retreat in the world Distinguish between exogenous zeitgebers and endogenous...

April 15, 2024

Politics23 min

Sketchy Politics: the rules of the electoral race

...You can have the lettuce. OK, it's "Sketchy Politics-- the Race is On." Well, Robert everyone needs a break in their routine. So I thought we'd have a day at the races. ROBERT SHRIMSLEY: Absolutely....

February 12, 2024

Newsletter

US Election Countdown: Follow the money and politics shaping the race for the White House

...How parties raise and spend money is set to be a vital lens for how we understand the presidential race....

February 24, 2024

Disrupted Times

‘Reality check’ for the green transition

...A “subsidy race” with the US and China will damage Europe’s economy, the IMF warned. Policymakers should instead focus on gains from lifting internal barriers to EU trade, the fund said....

April 19, 2024

HTSI

Ready for the one-mile race?

...The events draw participants from as young as 8 – and “we had an 80-year old run on the track this year”, says Taylor....

January 19, 2024

Stephen Bush

Do mixed-race people really enjoy the ‘best of both worlds’?

...On the whole, the number of mixed-race people in a country does tell us something positive about that country....

February 13, 2024

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

My career race is in the home stretch, here’s what I know

...As my generation enters the final stretch of the career race, I’m wondering: what did we learn about jobs, life and money that might benefit someone starting now?...

April 18, 2024

Inside BusinessDavid Keohane

Why Nissan needs more than a gamble on solid-state batteries

...Nissan, meanwhile, is struggling, having fallen behind in the EV race and lacking the scale needed to compete globally....

April 24, 2024

Beauty

Spa wars – the race to be the best retreat in the world

...“You can look at your liver, your body and if you can find the right environment, you can change things.” The spaces keen to lure the wellbeing pound are but rising to the challenge....

February 27, 2024

UK infrastructure

UK seeks to quell public anger on sewage with £11mn restoration fund

...The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to convene an urgent meeting to assess the impact of water effluent on public health....

April 8, 2024

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