New Yorker
The US came out of the Cold War and into the new century cloaked in an aura of mostly beneficent omnipotence. If the aura was a myth, it was a useful myth: it served as a means of persuasion and a deterrent to mischief. It was a kind of hard soft power—a velvet fist in an iron glove. That and more was squandered in Iraq.
NY Times
When future archeologists dig up the remains of that epoch, they will likely conclude that sometime around 1996, the U.S. was afflicted by a plague of claustrophobia and drove itself bankrupt in search of relief. But that economy went poof, and social norms have since changed. The oversized now looks slightly ridiculous. Values have changed as well.
Spiegel
The effort to rescue 33 trapped miners in Copiapó, Chile, has become a national mission. German technology may ultimately help save the men. But in the meantime, the journalists from around the world who have gathered in the mining camps have little to do.
Zaradi večjih vzdrževalnih del in nadgradnje sistema je dostop do strani že nekaj dni občasno oviran. Potrebujemo še nekaj časa.
Hvala za potrpežljivost in razumevanje!
Slate
Income inequality in the United States remained roughly stable through the postwar economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, grew through the 1980s, slackened briefly at the end of the 1990s, and then resumed with a vengeance in the aughts. From 1980 to 2005, more than 80 percent of total increase in Americans' income went to the top 1 percent.
Economist
France has not touched the legal retirement age since the early 1980s, when it was cut to 60 years. Previous governments have tinkered with contribution rules to try to make the numbers add up, but never dared to meddle with retirement at 60. Back in 1995 Alain Juppé was forced to withdraw a more modest pension reform after weeks of chaos on French streets.
