The Monocle Weekly heads to Los Angeles this week and discovers if plans to install high-speed rail across the state of California are on track.

For our latest installment we get a foreign correspondent's take on the upcoming UK general elections from Der Spiegel's man in London, Marco Evers.

The Economist’s John Andrews forecasts the next few decades and Michael Govan, director of Los Angeles County Museum of Art discusses its latest controversial installment.

We talk to a chemical weapons expert about Syria’s arsenal and learn about digital camouflage in the fourth instalment of our defence series.

For the second instalment of the Monocle Weekly from Rio de Janeiro, Tyler Brûlé talks to the city's mayor, Eduardo Paes, who gives a candid view on his plans for the future of the city.

Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief Fiona Wilson sets the day’s news agenda, we look at how Bulgaria’s elections will change the country, and in the first instalment of this week’s Eurovision series – we discuss why the competi…