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Editor's Picks from The Economist The Economist
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Stay ahead with a selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Published every Monday.
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Editor’s Picks: December 4th 2023
A selection of four essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Our cover story in Europe this week asks: is Vladimir Putin winning the war in Ukraine? Elsewhere, our cover explores why conventional wisdom on inequality is wrong (10:30). Also, following the death of Henry Kissinger, we reflect on what his diplomacy can teach the world (17:45). Plus, an artificial intelligence system has found more than two million materials that were previously unknown to science (22:45).
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Editor’s Picks: November 27th 2023
A selection of four essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Our cover story in most of the world explains why the world must try harder on climate change. Our cover story in the Middle East and Africa investigates the ambitious ascent of the United Arab Emirates (11:05). Also, we look at why non-white voters in America are abandoning Democrats (18:35) and our analysis finds the obesity pay gap is bigger than previously thought (27:00).
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Editor’s Picks: November 20th 2023
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024. Also, we investigate how experiments with funding can supercharge scientific innovation (09:35) and our Bartleby column, on work and management, explores the curse of the badly run meeting (14:30).
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Editor’s Picks: November 13th 2023
A selection of four essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, our cover story in most of the world asks: how scary is China? Also, we investigate why sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in America (11:15). Our cover story in Europe and Britain ponders how artificial intelligence will transform fame (15:35). Plus, South Africa’s spicy chicken wars (24:05).
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Editor’s Picks: November 6th 2023
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the contradiction at the heart of the world economy. Also, why doctors in America earn so much (11:40) and a new AI-assisted Beatles track could satisfy old fans and introduce the band to new ones too (17:20).
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Editor’s Picks: October 30th 2023
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, a test of American power: how Joe Biden manages the war between Israel and Hamas will define America’s global role. Also, our Bartleby column asks: what is the difference between managers and leaders? (9:24) Plus, China approves the world’s first flying taxi (16:16).
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Customer Reviews
Impressive Reporting
I have taken The Economist for years. The articles were well written and, surprisingly supported by data and facts. The readers on the app are very good reading material that for some find challenging. The Economist has a center right orientation which may be interpreted in the US, especially after the recent administration ‘s distortion of speaking and writing with a contemptuous attitude to experts and facts. Decades ago experience in the college market showed a steep drop in rigor over time both in textbooks, demands of professors and student interest in learning. I believe I see the results of that period of relaxation of standards in politicians and in many other college graduates in the business world. Stay the course Economst.
Double plus good propaganda
Tune in for today’s truth from the mouthpiece of the deep state
Subpar
Listening for example, to the article :”Will the Women of Iran Win”, one would be forgiven, if they thought it was written by a member of the NAIAC council (an IR lobby group active in the US since early 2000’s)
I was deeply disturbed by the invalidating slant and spin given to what is decidedly one of the most important movements happening in the region since less than half a century ago.
Doesn’t matter if the Economist is indeed commissioned to write articles like this or whether it’s due to their natural bias, the direction they’ve taken, I’m sorry to say, has decidedly cast an ugly shadow on the the entire publication.