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Every weekday our global network of correspondents makes sense of the stories beneath the headlines. We bring you surprising trends and tales from around the world, current affairs, business and finance — as well as science and technology.
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The Weekend Intelligence: Capturing UFOs
When a story about UFOs came across the desk of The Economist’s Michelle Hennessy, she was sceptical. A powerful cultural legacy of flying saucers and aliens is hard to ignore. But a recent flurry of interest from U.S defence agencies and NASA, stress the serious and scientific task of shedding light on what’s happening in the skies above.
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The Weekend Intelligence: Capturing UFOs
When a story about UFOs came across the desk of The Economist’s Michelle Hennessy, she was sceptical. A powerful cultural legacy of flying saucers and aliens is hard to ignore. But a recent flurry of interest from U.S defence agencies and NASA, stress the serious and scientific task of shedding light on what’s happening in the skies above.
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The Intelligence: Our meeting with Macron
France’s president is known for pronouncements of grand scope with one eye toward history. But when our journalists visited him at his residence his assessment of the state of the world was bleak—a dark, prophetic call to arms. In this special episode, we ask whether his view is accurate, whether his proposed solutions would work and whether he is the person to enact them.
Read the full transcript of our interview here.
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Checks and Balance: Chaos on campus
Student protests and encampments have mushroomed across America. Some students fear for their safety and more than 2,000 people have been arrested, as police in riot gear clear campuses. What do these protests mean for free speech, and what impact will they have on November’s election?
Charlotte Howard hosts with James Bennet and Idrees Kahloon. The Economist’s Daniella Raz and John Prideaux also contribute.
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The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out
When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than the popular narrative would have you believe. We examine what India’s push to soup up its nukes means for the global arms race (09:30). And even as global fertility rates fall, sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a relative baby boom (17:11).
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Money Talks: An interview with Joseph Stiglitz
For decades, the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz looked like an outsider in his field. As the world opened up to trade in the 1990s, the former chair of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and Chief Economist for the World Bank grew disillusioned, eventually becoming one of the most prominent critics of globalisation. Now Joe Biden is pulling back from unfettered trade with China and has turned to massive subsidies in an effort to reindustrialise America. So is Joseph Stiglitz finally having his moment?
Hosts: Tom Lee-Devlin, Alice Fulwood and Mike Bird. Guests: Joseph Stiglitz
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Customer Reviews
Keen and sharp insight
Always interesting, often engaging, sometimes challenging, The Economist's articles stimulate thought and discussion on topics far afield from the worst understood of the social sciences. No longer overly UK-centric, the audio version is far more appealing than the type of the printed copy, though it lacks the ironic cartoons and useful graphs, though it makes up with excellent background soundtracks.
I make it a part of a broad spectrum of news sources.
A big THUMBS UP ;-)
A bit too Bias
This is a pretty good podcast on interesting topics but can be a bit to biased at times.
Usually great, but some blunders
It is incredible that you put out that Robin de Angelo interview without more commentary on the fundamental errors in her theory.
Also, during the last year, you have tended to repeat as gospel truth that police disproportionally kills blacks as a result of racism. This is a quite controversial claim, which statistics do not seem to support (after factoring in e.g. differences in crime statistics, demographics/age, statistics for immigrant populations etc).