Turkey joining the EU? Yeah, not gonna happen, and it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with respect for the rule of law and freedom of expression.
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Zanny gets a leg bump in this one, but surprisingly, it didn’t feel awkward.
From The Economist Insider:
An Interview with Rahm Emanuel
https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/an-interview-with-rahm-emanuel
An interview with Rahm Emanuel | The Economist Insider
Few people know the ins and outs of Democratic politics like Rahm Emanuel. He served the party’s three most recent presidents, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden; was a member of the House of Representatives; and spent two terms as mayor of Chicago. Now, he’s eyeing a bigger office: the presidency. Where does he think his party’s problems lie? And what needs to be done to make them match-fit for 2028? Our editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes sat down with Mr Emanuel in Los Angeles this week to explore those questions, and to ask him what kind of world President Trump will leave behind.
I believe Israel should exist, but I also believe it needs to coexist, which obviously can be a challenge after decades and decades of endless reprisals. But hey, Europe managed to get through all those centuries of sectarianism. But would it have happened so quickly there if broadcast tv was around? Say post-2021 Channel 14? Maybe not.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/05/10/there-are-no-innocents-in-gaza-channel-14-the-israeli-television-channel-accused-of-genocidal-rhetoric_6753311_4.html
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/05/10/there-are-no-innocents-in-gaza-channel-14-the-israeli-television-channel-accused-of-genocidal-rhetoric_6753311_4.html
Politics distills complex things into bumper sticker jingles that stick in your head. Most end up on the ash heap of vapourware policy history. Appropriately, Rham, the deliverer of dead fish (https://www.chicagotribune.com/2018/01/24/rahm-once-sent-a-man-a-dead-fish-the-dish-is-returned-served-cold/), and a centrist Transactional-Dealmaker-In-Chief contender, realizes “Two-state solution” is one of those. He proposes a very ear-wormy “23-state solution” as its replacement. Given Channel 14’s awful optics (and broadcast standard violations), it couldn’t come at a better time.
Thankfully Indians don’t have to rely on hyper-partisan ideological television to get their news, unfortunately many of them do.
From The Economist: India’s broadcast media wage war on their audience: When hyper-nationalism goes feral
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/05/15/indias-broadcast-media-wage-war-on-their-audience
At first I was like, “of all the names you could choose, why that one?” And then, the question remained, but instead of it being directed at The Economist, it shifted to Lucasfilm, the Disney studio (not that other one that Apple TV’s Margo probably discovered as she researched her new job).
Anywho, you can read the first edition of Ashoka, The Economist’s new weekly column on India here: https://www.economist.com/topics/ashoka
Why’d they choose that name? Read more here: https://economist.com/asia/2026/05/21/essential-india-newsletter-introducing-ashoka-our-new-column
Today’s Café Europa might as well be from the National Enquirer.
https://view.e.economist.com/?vawpToken=ORMK3BXLUBTUHOBPP255BUNNBA.70253
Ok, so weighted OMOV in Canada isn’t exactly the same thing as OMOV in the UK. Maybe Labour should give weighted a try as well as that whole “vision thing”?
One member, one vote
(OMOV), as used in the parliamentary politics of the United Kingdom,[1][2] Canada,[3] and the Canadian provinces,[4] is a proposal to select party leaders and/or determine party policy, by a direct vote of the members of each party. Traditionally