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Two Washingtons: A French Correspondent's Logbook of Trump's Second Term
Marine, a journalist accredited at the White House as a US correspondent for French television, lives with one foot in each of two worlds. By day there is the center of Trumpist power. At home there i
40:01"Life After Reserve Duty": Israeli Soldiers Between Gaza, India and the Beach
An ARTE investigation meets Israeli reservists who have fought in Gaza and Lebanon since October 7, 2023, and asks what the war does to them after they take off their uniforms. Some set off on a long
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Finding Pull Instead of Pushing: Rob Snyder's Step-by-Step Guide to Product-Market Fit
Rob Snyder, author of The Power of Pull and the newsletter The Physics of Startups, says his approach came from failure. As a founder, he spent two years pushing a product nobody wanted. He then pivot
9:51Can the European Union Expand Without Falling Apart?
The last time the European Union admitted a new member was more than 13 years ago. According to this episode of ARTE's Inside Europe, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed that. Since the wa
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Nanase Aikawa Shares "The Aikawa Family's Okonomiyaki": A Kansai Home-Cooked Taste Made Every Week and Eaten with Rice
In this episode of "Buzz Recipe," the channel run by cooking researcher Ryuji, singer Nanase Aikawa, who is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut, appears as a guest. Ryuji usually does the
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How Tom Holland Built His Spider-Man Physique: The 1,500-Rep "Ladder" and the Mistakes He Owned Up To
Pull-ups, dips, push-ups, sit-ups and squats. You climb up through these five exercises, adding one rep at a time, then come back down to one. The total comes to 1,500 reps. Tom Holland reportedly wor
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Richard Katz on Why Raising Wages Is the Key to Japan's Revival
Richard Katz, a New York–based special correspondent for Toyo Keizai who has followed Japan's economy for roughly 45 to 50 years, came to PIVOT to discuss his book Raise Wages and Japan Will Revive (『
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France's Four Crises: How High School Protests Exposed the Limits of the Welfare State
Across France, there is a growing sense that something has to change. This Bloomberg report argues that the country is facing several overlapping crises at once. One commentator lists them as a politi
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Replacing Unplanned Downtime with Personal Downtime: AssetWatch on Condition Monitoring
This bonus episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour features host Chris with two guests from AssetWatch, a sponsor of the show: Dustin Moore, who comes from hands-on field maintenance work, and Patrick Car
8:00Israel–United States: A Strategic Alliance Under Strain, but Not at Breaking Point
According to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, ties between Israel and the United States have never been as close as they are with the two of them in power. Yet this ARTE report shows that in both
1:28:54Europe 1952/53: Between the Iron Curtain and the Coal and Steel Community
The ARTE documentary "1952–1953: The Cold War in Europe" portrays a continent seven years after the end of the war. It sees this period as a time of catching one's breath and of hope, but also of cris
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Abyss Ring Let's Play: Defeating Monsters, Cooking Them, and Clearing Three Floors of the Labyrinth While Keeping Hunger at Bay
Abyss Ring is a game in which you aim to conquer a dungeon while staving off hunger by cooking monsters. In this let's play, voiced by Kizuna Akari, a novice adventurer makes their way from the first
25:25Ryuji's "Pork Offcut Salt Hot Pot," Made Tender with Liquid Shio Koji
Pork offcuts are cheap, but they tend to turn tough when you put them straight into a hot pot. Cooking expert Ryuji says that marinating them in Hanamaruki's liquid shio koji solves this weakness. In
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Banana Yoshimoto on Why They Earned Their Sister's Medical Bills on note, and the Choices They Make to Keep Writing as a Novelist
Novelist Banana Yoshimoto published an article on note to raise money for their older sister's medical treatment. The article described the relationship between their mother and sister, as well as the
36:17Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao on Japan, Prison, Free Education, and an AI-Driven Crypto Economy
In this exclusive interview for PIVOT GLOBAL, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ), speaking from Abu Dhabi, looks back on how Japan shaped Binance's early days, gives his view of Japan's crypto tax re
23:35Alexandr Wang on Muse's Japan Launch and Meta's Bet on Personal Superintelligence
Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, launched in the United States and Canada and has now arrived in Japan. In this interview, TBS CROSS DIG business editor Masahiro Nakagawa asks Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chi
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Pharrell Williams and Pusha T on Virginia, "Grindin'," and Making Music at 5 a.m.
Pharrell Williams and Pusha T sat down with Vogue to interview each other about a friendship that goes back to their teenage years in Virginia. The conversation covers how they met, the first Clipse v
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7 Budget Serums: Kazunosuke's 2026 Picks That Are "a Miracle They're Not Department-Store Cosmetics"
Cosmetic chemist Kazunosuke had never made a video devoted solely to budget-priced serums. The reason, they say, is that most serums they could confidently recommend as effective cost around 5,000–7,0
12:18How Daniel Craig Built Bond's Body for Casino Royale
In 2005, when Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond, criticism poured in from around the world. A blond Bond was unthinkable, people said; he was too short, he didn't look like Bond. Someon
11:01Settler Violence in the West Bank and the EU's Stalled Debate Over Sanctioning Israel
This edition of ARTE Europe Weekly asks whether the European Union should use its trade relationship to hold Israel accountable for escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. The program presents