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| 2025 |
City quality of life indices
Monocle publishes its Quality of Life Survey for 2025, with Paris ranking first, followed by Madrid and Athens. The survey continues to evaluate cities on multiple comprehensive criteria.
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| 2025 |
City quality of life indices
IMD released the Smart City Index, ranking Zurich, Oslo, Geneva, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi as the top 5 most livable cities globally.
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| June 2025 |
City quality of life indices
Numbeo released its Quality of Life Index ranking for 2025, featuring 242 cities globally. The Hague, Netherlands topped the list, with Dutch cities prominently occupying multiple top positions.
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| 2025 | Paul began her role as a writer at large for The Wall Street Journal, concluding her tenure as an opinion columnist for The New York Times. |
| May 2025 | Morris announced a new newsletter called 'Strength in Numbers', which he intends to develop as a potential successor to FiveThirtyEight. |
| 2025 | Left the New York Times during a round of job cuts in the Opinion section. |
| March 2025 |
Laid off along with the entire FiveThirtyEight staff when the site was shut down.
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| 2025 | Anticipated publication of 'Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea'. |
| February 2025 | Joyce spoke at an event at Balliol College, Oxford, discussing her views on transgender issues, sex, and gender, which resulted in a walkout by pro-trans protesters and a petition signed by over 600 people protesting 'transphobia'. |
| January 2025 | Keynes announced the birth of her second child, a daughter named Leila Allies, via Bluesky. |
| 2024 |
City quality of life indices
Monocle released its 2024 Quality of Life Survey, with Munich ranking first, followed by Vienna and Zürich. The survey continues to evaluate cities across criteria including safety, connectivity, climate, architecture, public transport, tolerance, and environmental factors.
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| 2024 |
City quality of life indices
Release of the Happy City Index ranking, which evaluates cities based on 23 different areas of activity across five key categories to determine residents' quality of life and happiness.
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| 2024 |
City quality of life indices
Movingto Global Liveability Index released, ranking cities worldwide based on stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Vienna tops the list as the most livable city for 2024.
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| 2024 |
City quality of life indices
Mercer released its annual Quality of Living Survey, ranking cities globally based on 39 criteria. Zürich, Switzerland ranked first, followed by Vienna, Austria, and Geneva, Switzerland.
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| 2024 | Published book 'A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War' with Basic Books publishing house. |
| 2024 | Published 'Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World' through Doubleday |
| 2024 | Completes his tenure as Beijing bureau chief and author of the Chaguan column on China for The Economist. |
| 2024 | Contested the general election as a Liberal Democrat candidate, finishing third with 4,335 votes. |
| 2024 |
Glass Ceiling Index
The most recent Glass Ceiling Index expanded to ten indicators and now covers 29 OECD countries, highlighting gender disparities in areas such as education, workforce participation, management roles, and leadership positions.
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| 2024 | Awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), a prestigious international literary award. |
| 2024 | John Heilemann's marriage to Diana Rhoten ended. |
| October 2024 |
John Micklethwait
Interviewed President-elect Donald Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago as Bloomberg's top editor.
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| September 2024 |
John Micklethwait
John Micklethwait quietly married actress Kristin Scott Thomas following a five-year romantic relationship.
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| June 2024 | Joyce applauded the Conservative Government's decision not to pursue a ban on conversion therapy. |
| May 2024 | Begins hosting a new podcast for the Financial Times on economic matters. |
| May 2024 | Launched H2Org with Rabbi Harvey Belovski, a venture aimed at inspiring and supporting personal growth and success. |
| February 2 2024 | Published a 5,000-word opinion piece titled 'Gender Dysphoric Kids Deserve Better Care', which discussed stories of people who detransitioned after receiving gender-affirming care in their youth. |
| 2023 | Published her book 'A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War', providing a detailed account of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. |
| 2023 | Won the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia for The Economist special report on China and the world order. |
| 2023 | Published 'Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World' through Yale University Press, exploring the historical significance of Vienna. |
| 2023 | Joyce's book 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality' was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize. |
| 2023 | Published "Calming the storms: the Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises since 1825", analyzing British financial crises and arguing that the Bank of England's monetary policy changes have significant implications for economic stability. |
| 2023 | Appointed as Junior Proctor of the University of Cambridge for the 2023/24 academic year. |
| 2023 | Her husband Radosław Sikorski returned to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. |
| December 2023 | Bennet wrote a 16,000-word essay in The Economist criticizing the Times' shift away from journalistic objectivity and explaining the circumstances of his resignation. |
| August 28 2023 | Replaced as Wired's editor-in-chief by Katie Drummond. |
| June 2023 | Announced stepping down as Wired's editor-in-chief by September. |
| May 2023 | Hired by ABC News to lead FiveThirtyEight as editorial director of data analytics after Nate Silver's departure. |
| February 2023 | Joined Politico as Executive Editor - Head of Audio. |
| February 2023 | Gained national media attention through a Twitter thread discussing economic policy warnings related to the UK government's mini-budget, which was referenced in The Guardian. |
| January 2023 | Announced the birth of her first child, a son named Casper Allies, who is a descendant of Charles Darwin. |
| 2022 |
The Economist editorial stance
The Economist opposed the proposed new Chilean Constitution, characterizing it as a 'fiscally irresponsible left-wing wish list'.
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| 2022 | Received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, recognizing his distinguished academic and professional achievements. |
| 2022 | Published 'Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story' through DK in New York and London |
| 2022 | Began co-presenting The Economist podcast 'Drum Tower' with Alice Su. |
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