People of The State of Illinois

Netflix adaptation of sci-fi novel ‘The Three-Body Problem’ sparks anger in China

...Politically, the Chinese party-state has “never been comfortable with unfettered access to western cultural products”, said Josh Stenberg, associate professor of Chinese studies at the University of Sydney...

March 29, 2024

Zeinab Badawi

What the people of Sudan need from us

...The long-beleaguered people of Darfur, where the majority of provinces are in the hands of the RSF, have borne a particularly brutal burden. Reports of ethnic cleansing are grimly credible....

April 17, 2024

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Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...“The whole ‘Willies’ culture [work in London, live in Edinburgh] has been there for years and lots of people do it given the importance of London for finance.”...

March 31, 2024

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...The Financial Times’ UK poll tracker combines voting intention surveys published by major British pollsters ahead of the general election expected this year....

April 15, 2024

UK local elections

UK ‘pothole crisis’ threatens Conservative party ahead of local elections

...For a party that is “proudly pro-car”, in the words of transport secretary Mark Harper, the state of Britain’s roads is a serious problem, reflecting on years of constraints on the local councils charged...

April 16, 2024

OutlookPatti Waldmeir

Cicada-geddon: a rare insect event draws fans to the Midwest

...It will be the first time in 221 years that cicadas from broods XIII and XIX — one on a 17-year cycle and the other a 13-year cycle — will emerge together, overlapping in a small area of my home state of...

April 15, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Working It podcast14 min listen

What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

News updates from the Iowa caucuses: Trump called as winner of state race, DeSantis edges out Haley to finish second

‘No difference’ between Trump and his rivals, says Illinois governor

...Illinois’ Democratic governor said there is “no difference” between Donald Trump and his Republican rivals for president as Joe Biden’s re-election campaign sought to depict all contenders at the Iowa caucuses...

January 15, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...given everyone’s lungs a break, it is likely to do lasting harm to the health of young people who graduated into the teeth of that downturn....

March 8, 2024

ReviewFiction

Caledonian Road — Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-Britain novel

...If this is a state-of-the-nation novel, O’Hagan paints a bleak portrait....

March 28, 2024

US Election Countdown

The next phase in the US election

...But first, we’ll hear from Biden in his State of the Union address later this evening. More on that below....

March 7, 2024

The Weekend Essay

What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

...There are multiple ways of contacting and meeting people, digitally and socially. No longer are they London homes from home for out-of-towners....

March 30, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The parable of Soho House

...But there is lots of it, lots of resentment in return and no understanding history without a sense of this eternal friction between people with cachet and people with cash....

February 16, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Highlights from Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech

...Here are the key takeaways from Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech. Did Biden dispel doubts about his age?...

March 8, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen

Swamp Notes: Did Biden's State of the Union hit the mark?

...Joe Biden was in the spotlight this week as he made his annual State of the Union address....

March 9, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: The main takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union speech

...The US will set up a port on the Gaza coast for large ships carrying humanitarian supplies, the president confirmed in his State of the Union speech last night....

March 8, 2024

Life & Arts

The lessons and legacy of Rwanda’s genocide

...Rwanda’s extremist government, which had overseen the killing of more than three-quarters of a million of its people in just 100 days, had recently fled into exile....

April 5, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...HFEA data shows that in 2020-21 the average age of people freezing their eggs was 35....

March 23, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state

...The deeper problem is the failure of the Nigerian state. The country had a challenging start....

March 12, 2024

Janan Ganesh

Welcome to the era of the non-state actor

...Some 195mn people live under the control — whether settled or “fluid” — of such informal forces. We are meant to be living through the comeback of the state, remember....

January 30, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Swamp Notes — Did Biden’s State of the Union hit the mark?

...We’ve talked about this a little bit, but I think one of the most revealing things came during the response to the State of the Union, when the party not in power has a chance to rebut the State of the Union...

March 10, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The real quandary of AI isn’t what people think

...This week, I’d like to suggest a final precursor: the iPhone. When Steve Jobs launched the genre-defining iPhone in 2007, few people imagined just how ubiquitous smartphones would become....

February 16, 2024

Letter

Letter: We can beat the baby bust — with the right policies

...in the network of aid used by the Italian province of Alto Adige (South Tyrol), whose birth rate has held steady over decades, as The New York Times recently reported on....

April 5, 2024

The Oscars 2024: all you need to know

Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer: ‘I’m suspicious of people making Holocaust films’

...Nothing was confected: the pair collected “field recordings” in Germany, including the cries of people in the Berlin subway and shouts during a football match in Hamburg....

February 23, 2024

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