A vibrant tech scene has breathed new life into the city by the bay. A paradise for foodies, hipsters and hippies, this hilly metropolis also has a spectacular setting, with water on three sides. However, you'll want to…
The national identity of countries can shift radically and at a speed that leaves their inhabitants gasping. As the United States continues to suffer from low approval ratings all over the world, Paula Scher, one of the…
Monday 1 August
At some point before midnight, Barack Obama will likely put his name to an austerity plan passed last night by Congress, with just hours to spare before the United States reaches its borrowing limit, a deadline that would…
‘Magic walls’ and ‘QVR’ are in the lexicon this year for TV anchors covering the US election. Monocle looks at the networks’ top 10 secret weapons in the battle to report the winners and losers of the big day.
Sunday 24 June
As November approaches, the US presidential candidates are going full throttle on the campaign trail.
Thursday 13 June
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was headline news until word of secret NSA surveillance emerged. Should Jones be allowed to rant away on national television after all?
As the US presidential elections draw closer, at Monocle we’ve been turning our attention to who we’d like to see in the Cabinet. From CEOs to hip hop moguls, we’ve found a team who could change America’s image around the…
The American Forces Network has the largest geographical coverage of any media network in the world. Its 1,100 staff serve 800,000 overseas troops in even the remotest locations with a mix of entertainment, film, sport and…
Wednesday 31 October
Natural disasters are supposed to be apolitical. Campaigning ceases, adverts are pared back, the daily round of polls disappears. Yet with just a few days to go until a presidential election, nothing is apolitical.
Monday 21 May
It’s hardly an earth-shattering observation but my god the United States of America is a big place.
To counter dipping audience figures and falling advertising revenues, TV news increasingly offers a diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes. Who is to blame, a public unwilling to engage with global affairs…
US voters are perceived as being oblivious to the world outside their country. But war, immigration and an increasingly globalised economy mean that foreign affairs will play a bigger part in the 2008 election than they…
This month we begin a new series looking at the US presidential election through the eyes of foreign correspondents. First is Venezuelan Roselena Ramírez, who heads the Washington DC bureau of TeleSUR, a Venezuelan-contr…
Standing out against a backdrop of drab, square tower blocks on the north bank of the Chicago River, the white “corncobs” of Bertrand Goldberg’s distinctive Marina City buildings are still inspiring, both inside and out.
It is a tiny Muslim nation in one of the world’s most politically hostile regions. But Djibouti is also in the perfect position to keep tabs on Islamist militants. That’s why the US army is here and, thanks to a hearts- and…
Wednesday 10 November
It looked as though China stepped up the game to challenge the US, or at least US space-supremacy, at the end of last month when it launched another satellite in its second-generation Compass Navigation Satellite System …
Monocle attends the Sundance Film Festival to ask whether you still need a screening to break the box office.
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