Riot-geared: the tensions behind France’s unrest

Riot-geared: the tensions behind France’s unrest

The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squeezed on both political sides. In high-inflation times, rising wages worry economists—“wage-price spirals” are a textbook bogeyman. But perhaps the risk is overblown (10:34). And the researchers making burgers from extinct animals (18:22).


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Shots or fired: America’s vaccine mandates

Shots or fired: America’s vaccine mandates

Inoculation or testing requirements are spreading nearly as fast as the Delta variant. But it is not clear they will actually drive more people to get vaccinated. A broad semiconductor shortage has hi...

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Hot prospects: a sobering IPCC report

Hot prospects: a sobering IPCC report

The UN climate body’s latest doorstopper report is unequivocal: climate change is human-caused, and already here—and 1.5°C of warming is looking ever harder to avoid. In Bolivia, debate still rages as...

9 Elo 202121min

Coming in harder: Iran’s new president

Coming in harder: Iran’s new president

Ebrahim Raisi takes office as the country is blamed for multiple attacks in the region; a more mistrustful, hardline and aggressive regime awaits. Our correspondent meets a woman first trafficked into...

6 Elo 202122min

No consent of the governed: Andrew Cuomo on the brink

No consent of the governed: Andrew Cuomo on the brink

After a damning report into sexual-harassment allegations, support for New York’s governor has cratered. He is hanging on—for now. LinkedIn seems to do a brisk trade in China, without revealing how it...

5 Elo 202120min

No port, still a storm: Lebanon a year after the blast

No port, still a storm: Lebanon a year after the blast

The explosion at Beirut’s port was a symptom, not a cause, of the country’s malaise. We find more questions than answers about the blast and a political class unshaken by it. For half a century, one B...

4 Elo 202122min

Block off the old chips? Nvidia’s fraught merger

Block off the old chips? Nvidia’s fraught merger

The semiconductor giant wants to acquire ARM—a British firm that is more complement than competitor—but regulators may balk. We look at what’s at stake in chips. Something is changing in Americans’ sp...

3 Elo 202121min

No-sanctuary cities: the Taliban’s latest surge

No-sanctuary cities: the Taliban’s latest surge

Sweeping rural gains made as American forces have slipped out are now giving way to bids for urban areas; an enormous, symbolic victory for the insurgents looms. Singapore has enjoyed relative racial ...

2 Elo 202121min

Neither borrower nor renter be: America’s coming foreclosures

Neither borrower nor renter be: America’s coming foreclosures

America’s pandemic-driven measures granting relief on mortgages and rent arrears will soon expire, and millions of people are in danger of losing their homes. The Netherlands’ history of slavery is of...

30 Heinä 202122min

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