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Transcript: Is there a way out of Haiti’s nightmare?
...My guest is Robert Fatton, professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and author of books including The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti...
March 14, 2024
Venice Biennale 2024
Rising nationalism and falling funding are reshaping the Venice Biennale
...For many of its 800,000-plus visitors, the Venice Biennale balances art and aspiration with curiosity about the world past and present....
April 13, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
How Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann found creativity in the countryside
...A large part of her job, then, is to be selective; to, as Virginia Woolf had it, sift “the little from the big”....
March 21, 2024
Letter
Letter: We can beat the baby bust — with the right policies
...The package of support will have to include “discounted nursery schools, baby products, groceries, healthcare, energy bills, transportation, after-school activities and summer camps”, all of which are included...
April 5, 2024
Travel
Rodrigues: the far-flung outpost of Mauritius — with far fewer visitors
...Plastic bags are already banned and measures are in place to use solar energy and harvest rainwater. His plan is to add three or four new hotels and increase visitor numbers by 40 per cent....
February 28, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #64: Edgar Allan Poe
...The cottage itself — one of four US houses dedicated to Poe (the others are in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Richmond, Virginia) — needs some physical repair and a refresh of some tired displays....
April 20, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded
Is Virginia for lovers of Haley?
...The Roanoke College poll found in a hypothetical match-up, Haley would beat Biden by nearly nine points in Virginia, with the support of 49 per cent of the electorate, compared with 40 per cent for Biden...
March 5, 2024
Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded
Exit poll: Haley voters in Virginia motivated by opposition to Trump
...More than four in 10 Haley voters in Virginia considered themselves independent, a quarter identified as Democrats and a third said they “think of themselves” as Republicans....
March 5, 2024
Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded
Residents in Virginia’s wealthy Falls Church weigh in on race candidates
...“Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime,” said one voter, a 65 year-old economist who declined to give his name, but said he thought the country would be safer with Haley on the ballot instead of...
March 5, 2024
Travel
Into the wild in Gabon, Africa’s ‘last Eden’
...Just as with the Lopé mandrills, joining researchers is the only way for visitors to see the primates, with a chunk of our fee going directly to the project....
January 22, 2024
Trade Secrets
The Manchinations of Senator Joe Premium content
...contempt for gun control and carbon pricing by hanging up a copy of the bill in some West Virginia woods and shooting it with a hunting rifle....
November 13, 2023
Live news: Macron calls for overhaul of eurozone monetary policy
KKR to buy Blackstone student housing portfolio for $1.64bn
...Blackstone is selling a portfolio of 19 dormitories near the campuses of large public US universities in Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee to KKR for $1.64bn, a deal that will raise cash and monetise a large...
April 25, 2024
Letter
Letter: Berkshire Hathaway’s risk cannibalism challenge
...Chris Hilson Professor of Law and Director of the Reading Centre for Climate and Justice, University of Reading, Berkshire, UK...
March 15, 2024
US society
Columbia University calls in police to break up pro-Palestinian protest
...Virginia Foxx, chair of the congressional education committee, welcomed Shafik’s intervention but said the committee had “serious concerns regarding misleading and inaccurate statements from yesterday’s...
April 18, 2024
Letter
Letter: Philanthropy and the grind of active citizenship
...Prof David Grayson Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University School of Management; Chair, The Institute of Business Ethics, London SE11, UK...
January 5, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Haiti
Haiti names transitional council to handle crisis
...“The government was trying to impose that each member of the council complies with the constitutional requirements to become president,” said Jacky Lumarque, rector of the private Quisqueya university in...
April 17, 2024
Letter
Letter: The story of Bank Polski’s reserves has echoes today
...Harold James Professor of History and International Affairs, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies, Princeton University Princeton, NJ, US...
January 8, 2024
Letter
Letter: Collapsing Sumerians or standing-firm Pharaohs
...But where Roy’s book attempts to place the nature of “identity politics” as a new feature without precedent, the moral of the story of Heinlein’s mysterious visitor from Mars is that man’s greatest danger...
April 12, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
New York police arrest NYU protesters as US campus tensions rise
...Several of the US’s most elite universities have faced damaging controversies related to protests over the war in Gaza, which has led to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and the University of...
April 23, 2024
Letter
Letter: Schools need to restore the awe and wonder of science
...If we really want a scientifically literate population, then we must put the needs of the majority to the fore and think how we can offer them a glimpse of the awe and intellectual achievements...
December 22, 2023
Letter
Letter: Bankman-Fried and the Benthamite moral code
...Roger CrispProfessor of Moral Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK...
November 13, 2023
Travel & leisure industry
Restore tax-free shopping for visitors to the UK, urges tourist industry
...While the number of visitors from the US has picked up quickly, Donoghue said the UK was yet to witness “the full return” of European and Chinese tourists....
March 18, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Volcanic by John Brewer — Vesuvius and its many visitors
...Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions by John Brewer Yale University Press, £30, 544 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
November 2, 2023
Climate legislation
Republican states step up legal threats to Biden’s climate agenda
...Jonathan Adler, professor of environmental law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, said the legal onslaught was partly a result of the Biden administration issuing more climate rules than previous...
April 12, 2024
The Art Market
Controversial AI photo comes to the market
...The museum plans an exhibition of a portion of the gifted works in 2026, a spokesperson confirms, while visitors can see them all through the NGA’s study room....
April 25, 2024

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