We begin with some exciting news. India landed on the moon — and it's the first landing close to the south pole ever:
USA Today: India moon lander successfully reaches lunar south pole, begins hunt for water ice South China Morning Post: The new moon race That same evening, the first Republican debate of what will be a long U.S. election season took place:
FiveThirtyEight: Who Won The First Republican Debate? The New York Times: Which Candidates Got the Most Speaking Time in the Republican Debate SPIEGEL: Wer tritt gegen Biden an? Axios: Age haunts Biden vs. “crooked” Trump The Wall Street Journal: Why Tribalism Took Over Our Politics Financial Times: Republican candidates split over Donald Trump, abortion and Ukraine at debate The Washington Post: Our Republican debate poll finds Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy won The Washington Post: Without Trump, Republican debate attacks focus on Ramaswamy and Biden USA Today: How many times did primary candidates mention Trump in the first Republican debate? Axios: 1 big thing: MSNBC's Trump bump The Wall Street Journal: Tracking the Charges in Trump’s Indictments As summer begins to cool in the Western Hemisphere, newsrooms took another look at the record heat caused by climate change :
The Wall Street Journal: Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire: Was Summer 2023 the New Normal? The Wall Street Journal: Heating Waters Force Change in Industries That Depend on the Ocean ZEIT Online: So trennt Hitze die deutschen Städte SPIEGEL: Acht Milliarden - sind wir bald zu viele Menschen auf der Erde? Among the consequences of climate change visualized this week are drought and wildfires:
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Financial Times: Europe’s water crisis: how supplies turned to ‘gold dust’ Bloomberg: Eighteen People Found Dead as Wildfires Rage in Greece The Wall Street Journal: Everybody Knew the Invasive Grass of Maui Posed a Deadly Fire Threat, but Few Acted Le Monde: El Niño et La Niña, les « enfants terribles » du climat San Francisco Chronicle: The Big Melt transformed California. A journey down a great river shows how And it's hurricane season in the Atlantic. As we're writing this, Hurricane Idalia is making her way toward the Florida coast:
The Washington Post: Tracking the path of Hurricane Idalia USA Today: How the National Hurricane Center predicts, and tracks a powerful storm's path The Wall Street Journal: Tropical Storm Idalia Forecast to Become Major Hurricane on Its Path to Florida USA Today: Maps show Idalia's path as powerful storm approaches Florida and Georgia The New York Times: Tracking Hurricane Idalia Another big topic this week: Infrastructure . How much are people traveling around, and under which conditions? Newsrooms visualized it all:
Financial Times: Big US city downtowns ‘stuck’ behind smaller rivals in pandemic recovery SPIEGEL: Baut Volker Wissing Straßen, die keiner braucht? Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Bloomberg: America’s Loneliest Road Is Finally EV-Ready Financial Times: The Nimby tax on Britain and America Notes on Growth: Britain's infrastructure is too expensive Folha de S.Paulo: Obras paradas e projetos antigos correspondem a 43% do Novo PAC The war in the Ukraine was also a big focus this week thanks to stories about the crashed jet of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, emigration, and grain exports:
Reuters: Mapping the Prigozhin plane’s final flight The Wall Street Journal: A Look at the U.S. Missiles Ukraine Seeks to Hit Russian Forces The Wall Street Journal: Ukraine’s Reset: A Slow and Bloody Advance on Foot The Economist: Russians have emigrated in huge numbers since the war in Ukraine Georgios Karamanis: "Refugees in Europe for this week's #TidyTuesday. Alluvial bump chart made with {ggsankey} with data from @Refugees," August 27 (Tweet The Wall Street Journal: ‘The Market Is Dead’: Ukraine’s Farmers Count the Cost of Grain Deal’s Collapse Apropos grain and immigrants – our economics section covers both, too:
Reuters: Brazil clears bottlenecks to oust US as top corn exporter Bloomberg: Apple's iPhone Supply Chain Splinters Under US-China Tensions The Washington Post: AI is so hot even KFC and Williams-Sonoma execs are talking about it FlowingData: Renting vs. Owning a Home, by State Economic Innovation Group: Immigration Policy Is Innovation Policy And our miscellaneous section has everything from vultures, tides, cannabis, book bans, to Canadian gun crime:
The Economist: The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people The Courier: What are the busiest times for Tayside and Fife A&E departments? Le Monde: La marée, ce cycle immuable et vital qui intrigue les savants depuis l’Antiquité Bloomberg: NRA-Style Politics Transformed Canada’s Gun Culture — and Shootings Rose 869% Berliner Morgenpost: Wo Kiffen weiter verboten sein soll CNN: Requests to ban books hit a 21-year high. See which titles were the most challenged The New York Times: After the Loss of a Son, a Football Coach Confronts a Terrible Truth El Confidencial: Se busca compañera de piso: ¿por qué las chicas no quieren convivir con chicos? San Francisco Chronicle: College admissions: One factor has huge impact on who attends top U.S. schools 
