The Globalist

As the US government shutdown becomes the longest of its kind in the country's history, we ask how much longer the stalemate can continue. Plus: France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ protesters take to the streets once more, a closer look at the shadowy figure known as ‘Putin's chef’ and what the City of Culture title can do for a place.

How is the government shutdown affecting daily life in the US? Plus: how Angela Merkel’s allies are building defences against rising populism, Turkey considers its options in Syria and a wrap of the CES electronics fair.

The UK’s parliament is due to vote on the Brexit deal within days but few are certain of what will come next. Plus: the future of Japanese investment, the Congo’s troubled election and the latest from Pitti Uomo.

We assess the US secretary of state’s tour of the Middle East and how it could impact Iranian diplomacy. Plus: Italy’s flirtation with an anti-EU league, Carlos Ghosn speaks out and more from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

With US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recovering from surgery, we explain why her health could directly impact a political generation. Plus: why an Australian senator used taxpayer money to attend a far-right gathering and AI enters the bathroom at the CES technology fair in Las Vegas.

Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas predicts who’ll blink first as Donald Trump’s demand for a wall on the US border with Mexico continues to put a freeze on government business.

In this special edition we look back at one of the year’s best interviews on ‘The Big Interview’. The director of ‘Moonlight’, which won the Oscar for best picture in 2017, talks about everything from getting into film-making while growing up in a rough neighbourhood, to adapting James Baldwin to the screen in his new drama ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, and the responsibility that comes with having a voice.

In this special edition we look back at one of the year’s best interviews on ‘The Big Interview’. Dave Eggers is the author behind bestselling and award-winning books such as ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, ‘What is the What’ and ‘The Circle’. He met Monocle’s Ed Stocker to talk about his work, influences and more.

In this special edition we look back at one of the year’s best interviews on ‘The Big Interview’. Sally Field won an Oscar for best actress in ‘Norma Rae’ in 1980 and another in 1985 for ‘Places in the Heart’. She has now written a memoir, ‘In Pieces’, and talks to Georgina Godwin about childhood trauma and losing herself in acting.

In this special edition we look back at one of the year’s best interviews on ‘The Big Interview’. The Finnish composer and conductor, currently principal conductor for London’s Philharmonia and conductor laureate for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, muses over the idea of danger in classical music, pushing virtuosos’ comfort zones and giving back to the system.