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The Globalist - Wednesday 1 June
1 June 2016
The head of Berlin’s stock exchange tells us why Germany’s unemployment rate is at its lowest since the collapse of Communism and discuss how the press and public are reacting to Israel’s lurch to the right. Plus: we get…
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Monocle on Design - On Design 29: What is metabolic architecture?
23 February 2017
This week Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief Fiona Wilson tells us about Metabolism, an obscure and futuristic Japanese architectural movement from the 1960s that drew on influences ranging from living organisms to communism.
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The Monocle Daily - Wednesday 18 August
18 August 2021
Ramita Navai and Jonathan Fenby on the experience of journalists left behind in Afghanistan. And as Xi Jinping calls for greater wealth distribution, is China pivoting back to communism? Plus, politicians on holiday.
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The Foreign Desk - Tear Down This Wall: Life behind the Iron Curtain
16 November 2019
In the second part of our series on the fall of communism 30 years ago, Andrew Mueller is joined by Carmen Bugan, Anna Funder and Tim Mohr to look at what life was like behind the Iron Curtain, including the surveillance…
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The Monocle Arts Review - Books: Christopher Frey
18 February 2016
We call our Toronto correspondent to discuss the idea of consciousness in Howard Akler’s latest book ‘Men of Action’, find out why we’ve been gazing into our crystal balls for too long with Hal Niedzviecki’s latest release…
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The Monocle Daily - Monday 4 May
4 May 2015
We discuss Sino-European relations and protests in Israel, meet the director of the documentary ‘Chuck Norris vs. Communism’ and the photographer behind ‘Every Bodega In Manhattan’, comedy writer Jon Macks discusses his new…
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Monocle on Design - Extra: Warsaw’s graphic past
23 May 2019
Can you understand a country by looking at its graphic-design industry? Warsaw underwent a dramatic swing from communism in the 1980s to a fascination with capitalism in the 1990s. Today the city’s identity is striking more…
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The Foreign Desk - Tear Down This Wall: Tipping Points
9 November 2019
In the first episode of a four-part series exploring the end of communism in Eastern Europe, we look at the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago this week, and ask when and where the cracks began. Andrew Mueller is joined…
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Monocle on Design - On Design 21: What is mafia baroque architecture?
15 December 2016
After Bulgaria’s first elections were held in 1990, the free market rushed in to fill the economic vacuum left by the fall of communism. On one side there arose a new class of oligarchs and on the other, against a backdrop…