It's yet another wild week for News and Politics, and OZY has the forward-looking coverage you crave. Amid chaos in Iowa, we're on the ground in New Hampshire for the next phase of the presidential primary. We're looking at the financial implications of coronavirus. And with the Super Bowl done, it's college hoops season, so it's time to get to know Kentucky's fleet-footed big man (pictured).
| The stakes just got higher in New Hampshire, where Bernie Sanders is showing serious strength. As the early Iowa caucus results started rolling in, call-and-answer chants of “Hari Har” and “Shakti Devi” filled a dimly lit yoga studio in the tiny New Hampshire town of Keene more than a thousand miles away. To the beat of drums, cymbals and an acoustic guitar, 15 people gathered to chant and “send our positive intentions out to the world,” as the organizer described the event. Their stated goal? To perform Kirtan hymns (and some old-fashioned outreach) in the hopes of great voter turnout for the presidential election. But despite that nondenominational nod, almost everyone here had a more specific hope: that Sen. Bernie Sanders could soon be their Democratic nominee for president. But as the night moved on, there was no clear response to their prayers, as severe problems with the Iowa Democratic Party’s reporting process led to massive delays in releasing caucus results. The debate threatens to overshadow whoever will eventually be declared the winner — particularly as the news cycle moves on to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address and expected impeachment acquittal — as the candidates crowd into New Hampshire starting today. | READ NOW |
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| | Amid concerns over the global economic impact of the spread of the virus, investors are turning to safer options. A rally swept through bond markets last month, expanding the global tally of negative-yielding debt to more than $13 trillion and confounding investors who had bet on higher yields. Fears over the outbreak of the coronavirus in China have pushed investors to dump risky assets in recent days — wiping about $1.4 trillion off the value of global stocks since mid-January — and buy up the safest government debt. | READ NOW |
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| | By blocking witnesses out of fear, Senate Republicans ensure that John Bolton will have his say at the time of his choosing. |
| | Chinese state media ridicules the U.S. president, but for many young Han nationalists, he's a “visionary leader.” |
| | There’s a $740 billion elephant in the room, and presidential hopefuls need to speak up. |
| | President Martín Vizcarra suspended Congress. But he's winning his electorate's support to clean up the country's endemic corruption. |
| | After gaining resolve from his mother, Nick Richards has finally arrived as a star for a team with national title dreams. |
| | Tara McGowan is pioneering strategies that could upend politics as we know it. |
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