GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT
The age of America first: Washington’s flawed new foreign policy consensus.
Richard Haass
The transatlantic relationship descends into a food fight: America and Europe have competing visions of how to feed the world — and we could all be caught in the cross-fire.
Politico
China’s radical new vision of globalization: Xi’s vision of “dual circulation” is a darkly pessimistic economic strategy, fit for a new Cold War.
James Crabtree
POLITICS
Politico: Brexit is ‘going badly,’ say Brits in new poll
+ More than half of Britons think Brexit is “going badly” — and the number of people with that opinion is growing
DISRUPTION
How artificial intelligence completed Beethoven’s unfinished Tenth Symphony: On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released.
The Conversation
COMMERCE
Jony Ive teams up with Ferrari to develop electric car: Former Apple designer’s LoveFrom signs deal with Agnelli family’s Exor.
FT
Electric Motor City: Ford and General Motors fight it out to electrify: The switch to battery power is the latest showdown between Detroit’s heavyweights.
Economist
Innovating in existing markets: 3 lessons from LEGO: LEGO’s journey from market leader to the brink of bankruptcy and back yields valuable insights for companies seeking to revitalize mature products.
MIT
CULTURE
The redemption of a televangelist: For decades, the mascara-laden Tammy Faye was relentlessly mocked. Maybe America got her wrong.
Jonathan Merritt
+ There are around 71,000 wild horses in the United States, with the bulk of them in Nevada with 43,000
Why is every young person in America watching ‘The Sopranos’? The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: A parable about a country in terminal decline.
NYT
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