When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
By Azra Isakovic
Tuesday, March 02
Good morning
Welcome to Your Tuesday Briefing
Books
Médias –L’Information est un bien public – Julia Cagé et Benoît Huet | Editions du Seuil
Censorship – Amazon Gets Into the Censorship Business Roger Kimball, American Greatness
Censorship – Senators Ask Bezos Why Amazon Pulled Book James Gordon, Daily Mail
Review – What Freud Got Right Jess Keiser, The Washington Post
Must-Reads
Biden/MBS – Biden Lets a Saudi Murderer Walk Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Biden/MBS – Biden Fails to Make MBS a Pariah Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg
Japan – Japan’s Fredo Corleone Moment Is Not Very Cinematic William Pesek | Nikkei
Italy – Italy and Defense Under Draghi Karolina Muti & Arturo Varvelli | ECFR
Tech War – Latin America Caught Up in U.S.-China Tech War Oliver Stuenkel | Foreign Policy
Somalia – The Way Out of Somalia’s Political Impasse Afyare Abdi Elmi | Al Jazeera
US/China/Asia/Europe – U.S. Enlists Allies to Counter China’s Technology Push, Bob Davis | Wall Street Journal
US/Climate – Clean Resilient States: The Role of U.S. States in Addressing Climate Action, Morgan Higman, Sarah Ladislaw, Nikos Tsafos | CSIS
UK – UK Regulation after Brexit, Hussein Kassim, Sean Ennis, Andrew Jordan, UK in a Changing Europe
Greece/Turkey – Why Greeks and Turks Fight, Costas M. Constantinou | Current History
China/India – China Seems to Warn India the Lights May Go Out D. Sanger & E. Schmall, NYT
Research & Analysis
Corruption – Turning the Tide on Dirty Money: Why the World’s Democracies Need a Global Kleptocracy Initiative, Trevor Sutton and Ben Judah, Center for American Progress
Digital – Cyber Threats 2020: A Year in Retrospect | PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC
Digital/Finance – Preconditions for a general-purpose central bank digital currency, Jess Cheng, Angela N. Lawson, and Paul Wong, U.S. Federal Reserve
Podcast
Médias – Comment démocratiser l’information ? | France Culture
Films
Srebrenica – “Quo Vadis, Aida?” by Janine di Giovanni | Foreign Policy
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