The Brutalist Report

Quartz

• The White House’s BA.5 variant plan is to do everything that didn’t work before [1166d]
• The euro may be historically cheap, but your European vacation won’t be [1166d]
• Amazon warehouses aren’t just unionizing—they’re upending labor organizing in the process [1167d]
• Industrial policy [1167d]
• Prices in the US soared again last month, with inflation at a 40-year high [1167d]
• Covid was twice as deadly in poor countries as in rich ones [1167d]
• The G7 is playing catch-up with China in Africa [1167d]
• Kids’ mental health and the needs of working parents [1167d]
• An Indian startup has lost its plea for “direct access” to the world’s largest selling biscuits [1167d]
• Employee anger is now adding to Indian aviation’s air safety troubles [1167d]
• ✦ The informal retailers driving Africa’s economy [1167d]
• Tablets from Kenya’s failed digital literacy program are now being sold in Uganda’s black market [1167d]
• Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa escapes to the Maldives [1167d]