Monocle reports from the World Governments Summit in Dubai. Plus: overtourism shadows cherry blossom season in Japan, a look at Oscar-nominated film ‘The Secret Agent’ and Taiwan advises parents on teen K-pop obsession.

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Andrew Mueller tells us what we learned this week, including more public figures implicated in the latest Epstein files release, the US media reacts to ‘Melania’ and ‘The Washington Post’ announces sweeping layoffs.

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We hear about the efforts to broadcast into Iran using shortwave radio, meet Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao and take the temperature of Paris Fashion Week Men’s. Plus: ‘Vogue Italia’, maximalist textiles and much more.

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Andrew Mueller tells us what we learned from the Republicans’ response after Alex Pretti’s death, the trailer for Melania Trump’s new documentary and the Doomsday Clock’s new time.TSKTSK

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Highlights from our team in Davos for the World Economic Forum, and insightful reportage from our colleagues on the ground in Nuuk.

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Andrew Mueller reports from Nuuk as Trump’s Greenland threats develop. Plus: why did 2025’s actual Nobel Peace laureate, María Corina Machado, give the US president her award?

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Fifteen years of quarterly magazine Delayed Gratification, US writer EA Hanks discusses her debut memoir, The 10, and we meet the curator of a new exhibition dedicated to celebrated photographer Richard Avedon.

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Andrew Mueller unpacks the news this week, including Trump’s attempts to claim Greenland, the new “depression meal” recommended by the US government and the K-pop jam between the leaders of South Korea and Japan.

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