The Intelligence: An aid drop over Gaza
It is becoming harder to get supplies into the enclave, which is facing a growing risk of famine....
The Intelligence: An aid drop over Gaza
It is becoming harder to get supplies into the enclave, which is facing a growing risk of famine....
Drum Tower: Tick tock for TikTok
On March 13th America’s House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok nationwide...
The Intelligence: when Sall tempted Faye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was little-known before this election. Despite the incumbent president’s...
Editor’s Picks: March 25th 2024
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This...
The Intelligence: Moscow massacre
Warnings from the Americans went unheeded, police took too long to respond, and now the Kremlin...
The Weekend Intelligence: Should I own a gun?
By the end of this podcast Economist correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr might own a gun. Recently,...
The case against the tech giant has been brewing since 2019 and while the smartphone maker is...
Money Talks: Should Amazon be afraid of Temu?
Amazon started with a plan to disrupt bookselling. It sold cheap books online, delivering them...
The Intelligence: Fed reckoning
America’s central bank left rates untouched, to widespread market delight. Why is this economic...
The Intelligence: Leave your umbrella at home
It took more than 20 years for Hong Kong’s legislature to pass Article 23, a sweeping and...
The Intelligence: The power of positive tinkering
The Bank of Japan has ended its grand experiment in unconventional monetary policy—how did it...
The Intelligence: F is for falling standards
America is producing more high-school graduates—but on average, they know less. We ask how a push...
Checks and Balance: Growth states
It’s not long since America was widely thought to be on the brink of recession. Instead the...
The Intelligence: Russia’s sham election
Voting begins today in an election that has already been won – all the opposition politicians are...
The Intelligence: Is time up for TikTok?
The US Congress is refusing to scroll past the app’s links to China. If the bill they passed...
The Intelligence: Russia pushes back on Kharkiv
The northeastern province has been subject to more and more shelling, and Western officials are...
The Intelligence: Europe is not so hot on its green parties
Melting ski slopes, floods and droughts are enraging the continent’s citizens, but not quite...
The Intelligence: Kim Jong Un’s fighting talk
As the hermit kingdom is getting ever cosier with Russia, it is becoming bolder in its...
The Weekend Intelligence: The view from the pecan orchard
When Magali and Hugo Urbina bought a pecan orchard outside Eagle Pass, Texas, they were dreaming...
The Intelligence: Haiti’s latest nightmare
Despite growing pressure from powerful local gangs, Ariel Henry, the prime minister, is refusing...