Theresa looks left: Brexit negotiations
Economist Podcasts5 Huhti 2019

Theresa looks left: Brexit negotiations

Having seemingly exhausted options within her own party, Prime Minister Theresa May is now trying to strike an EU divorce deal with Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the opposition. We profile the hard-left Labour leader. This weekend marks 25 years since one of history’s most horrifying campaigns of slaughter; our correspondent reflects on Rwanda, then and now. And, a prominent scientist seeks a molecule that confers all of the fun of alcohol, but none of the risks.

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Demonstrative: a global wave of protest

Demonstrative: a global wave of protest

Today’s public-sector demonstrations in Zimbabwe are just the latest in a wave of protests around the world. We look into why there are so many, and what might be driving them. It’s not all sound and ...

6 Marras 201922min

Stone unturned? Trump’s adviser on trial

Stone unturned? Trump’s adviser on trial

Today Roger Stone, a colourful associate of President Donald Trump for 40 years, goes on trial facing seven charges; he denies them. Could his testimony worry the Trump camp? In the international race...

5 Marras 201924min

Facebooklets: breaking up Big Tech

Facebooklets: breaking up Big Tech

Few politicians are as ambitious about dismantling the tech behemoths as Elizabeth Warren, one of America’s Democratic presidential contenders. What she is proposing, though, would be neither easy nor...

4 Marras 201921min

Impeach-y keen: Trump investigation goes public

Impeach-y keen: Trump investigation goes public

America’s House of Representatives took its first vote on how to proceed with impeachment proceedings against the president. Republicans will now struggle to defend him. Uighurs, China’s Muslim minori...

1 Marras 201923min

Iraq in a hard place: deadly protests continue

Iraq in a hard place: deadly protests continue

Demonstrations have been growing for a month and show no signs of abating. But would the reforms that the protesters are demanding actually work? We examine a pioneering bit of Lithuanian software tha...

31 Loka 201920min

May as well: Boris Johnson’s electoral bet

May as well: Boris Johnson’s electoral bet

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has at last secured a general election. Just as with his predecessor Theresa May, that may not result in easier Brexit arithmetic. We speak to Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic-...

30 Loka 201922min

Not fare enough: Chile’s protests

Not fare enough: Chile’s protests

The ongoing unrest is no longer about a rise in metro fares; Chileans have risen up to demand that the prosperity of their country be distributed more evenly. The “Visegrad Four” economies of central ...

29 Loka 201920min

State of disarray: the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

State of disarray: the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

The man who brought Islamic State to the world stage with visions of a brutal “caliphate” has been killed. But the jihadist movement, while weakened, lives on. Argentines voted their reformist preside...

28 Loka 201920min

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