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Performing personhood has perhaps never been as panoptical, and top of mind, as it is today. Social-media platforms prioritize the…
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Swedan Margen contributes to L'Officiel Lifestyle with a focus on business and entrepreneurship.
Swedan covers business developments, emerging companies, entrepreneurial stories, and trends influencing industries and the broader economy.
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Business
Saudi National Bank’s US$1 billion loan adds to Middle East spree
Saudi National Bank is seeking a US$1 billion syndicated loan, continuing a borrowing rush by the kingdom’s lenders that are helping…
Business
Indonesia assigns US$1 billion to Brics-led New Development Bank
Indonesia will assign US$1 billion to the Brics-led New Development Bank, further boosting ties with the group of developing nations. The…
Fashion
Shein probed by Texas attorney general over labour practices, product safety
The company is headquartered in Singapore but sources most of its products from China, where it has several thousand suppliers Texas…
Politics
Shooting of National Guard members prompts flurry of U.S. immigration restrictions
Since last week's shooting of two National Guard members in the nation's capital by a suspect who is an Afghan national, the Trump…
News
Appeals Court: Alina Habba May Not Serve as De Facto U.S. Attorney
Trump and Bondi’s finagling with the appointment process has gotten them nowhere. Source link
Business
EV sales take a dive without taxpayer subsidies
Americans were already feeling uneasy about purchasing an electric vehicle. Then the generous tax subsidies ended. Source link
Politics
No, Trump Is Not to Blame for the National Guard Shooting
The reaction in the media to this attack is as predictable as it is revolting. Source link
Business
JPMorgan doubles Swiss business by targeting wealthy clients
JPMorgan doubled its Swiss domestic private banking business between 2020 and 2024 and aims to do so again by 2030 as it targets the…
News
Schneider Electric looks to digitalisation, new partners to tackle rapid electrification
Electricity demand’s unprecedented growth is coming from both technology and sectors undergoing electrification through digitalisation.…
News
What Makes Goethe So Special?
On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early-sixteenth-century knight with a prosthetic iron hand,…
News
The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
Much like her childhood identification with communism, her writing began as something of a joke. She was utterly devoted to the Party’s…
Politics
Klaas Verplancke’s “White House of Gold”
For the cover of the December 8, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Klaas Verplancke wanted to capture how, as he put it, “shiny gold pales in…
Culture
The Best Albums of 2025
Looking back at the songs I played the most in 2025, I can sense my own hunger for music that felt wounded, carnal, unfamiliar, tactile,…
Business
Tim Robinson Finds Humanity—and Tests It—in “The Chair Company”
In this outline, “The Chair Company” could be a sketch premise: “guy loses it after embarrassing himself at a big meeting.” This was the…
Culture
“An Enemy of the People” Becomes a Spanish Opera
Perhaps Rigola should have been more willful in his handling of the text, since his libretto unfolds more like a selection of highlights…
News
Airbus says most of its recalled 6,000 A320 jets now modified
It is the first time Airbus has had to deal with global safety attention on such a scale since that crisis Airbus fleets were returning…
Business
MetaOptics shares soar nearly 14% on proposed share placement
Proceeds are expected to strengthen the group’s financial position and expand its capital base to support a growing pipeline of global…
News
Trump defends Hegseth over reports of a second strike on alleged drug boat
President Trump on Sunday downplayed reports that his defense secretary ordered military members to strike a suspected drug boat a second…
Politics
Fed contender Hasset says market is ready for Trump chair pick
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett touted a positive market response to indications that US President Donald…
News
Feds clam up a year after New Jersey drone sightings
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's -- well, it's been a year since the drone sightings over New Jersey and we still…
News
Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” his 1966 Shakespearian meta-theatrical puzzle, about tertiary characters grappling with their…
Politics
What Brought the Trump Administration to the Brink with the Venezuelan Regime
Venezuela’s regime is the archetype of a cartel-state synthesis. Source link
Politics
Sen. Mark Kelly calls Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 'unqualified' amid video probe
Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday that President Trump "doesn't understand the Constitution" and that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be…