As popularity and revenue soars, how much longer can the NBA - which effectively controls the W - hold their line that it is still losing money? 🤔

Lovely vignette on the making of Gone With The Wind (from Bruce Chadwick’s Reel Civil War)

11 days to go until Canada's election, and I'm struggling to think of a poll swing quite as extraordinary in such a short space of time. Corbyn/May 2017? Check out our full tracker here:
www.economist.com/interactive/...

Comes after median rent in Manhattan recently hit a record high of $4500 (!)
elliman.com/media/Rental...

Ah Broadway, never change...

Took the (almost) exact pic here with unseemly weather last May- stunning spot!

Sarah Wynn-Williams should write a new chapter on Facebook's absurd efforts to shut her book down... "Careless People", a brilliant read, currently tops the NYT bestsellers list 👀

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Britain has been quietly making significant progress in women's representation across business and politics.
Data for all 29 OECD countries in our annual glass-ceiling index 👇
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Some takeways: progress is slow, particularly on the wage gap, which is stuck at an average 11.4%. But on most fronts countries are very gradually moving in the right direction. And after last year's vote-a-rama, the average share of women in parliaments rose to a record 34%. Glimmers of good news!

www.ft.com/content/9921... 😐

USAID's website is (of course) down; but it disburses the vast bulk of foreign assistance- $44bn out of $72bn in FY 2023.
Some useful resources that are still functioning, for now:
foreignassistance.gov
fts.unocha.org/home/2024/co...

Worth noting how reliant major organisations are on America. The US funds a quarter of Save the Children's budget and over half of the World Food Programme's 👇

A lot's been written about the rightwards shift of young men in the US. But perhaps more surprisingly, a higher % of women under 30 went for the Republicans than in any of the past four cycles (data from the Centre for American Women and Politics)
cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-...

Great FT column comparing Trump's ascendancy to the (erstwhile) incomparable Martha Stewart
www.ft.com/content/8bff...