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Every edition of The Canters begins with the same question: what does the world look like right now and what does it mean for the people reading us? This issue answers that in a dozen different directions.
We travel first through ceremony and custom, tracing how India, China and Japan mark the union of two lives, before stepping back to look at the international days that quietly shape our collective calendar. From there we turn inward, questioning the diet culture that
so many of us have absorbed without ever choosing it and following the science linking sugary drinks to a rising risk of stomach cancer.
Technology and climate share the middle pages this time, first through artificial intelligence’s growing role in medicine and then through the uncomfortable truth that natural disasters are becoming less the exception and more the pattern. Closer to home we sit with an unfinished conversation about independence itself, one that asks what freedom has actually delivered.
There is lighter ground too. August brings the year’s biggest skywatching event, 2027 promises a heavyweight slate of films and a new generation of basketball players is already rewriting what the game demands of its stars. We close on something more structural: how countries around the world choose their civil servants and what that process reveals about the values a nation holds.
As always, this issue is less a collection of separate stories than a single conversation, one we hope you’ll want to join.
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