Sticking to their guns: violence in America

Sticking to their guns: violence in America

Two mass shootings over the weekend add to the unrelenting stream of gun violence in America. We look at the political and social forces that ensure it will continue. The collapse of Venezuela’s infrastructure has left its people desperate for medical care. We meet some of the women crossing into Colombia to seek help. And, the politics behind the ever-shifting travel advice dispensed in the Middle East.


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No middle ground: Iran’s dangerous division

No middle ground: Iran’s dangerous division

As the smoke of a murderous crackdown clears, Iranians have hardened into two camps. Moderates and reformists are out; a sense of looming civil war is in. As America nears its 250th birthday, we launc...

29 Tammi 22min

We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump

We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump

Many of the continent’s populist-right leaders once saw President Donald Trump as an example-setting fellow traveller. But his actions and policies on Venezuela, Greenland and Canada have them pulling...

28 Tammi 19min

General ejection: China’s military purge

General ejection: China’s military purge

The two men under investigation are in the army’s highest echelon, and are some of President Xi Jinping’s closest counsel. We examine the probable motives for a surprising purge. In Ukraine’s freezing...

27 Tammi 22min

Resistance is fatal: another killing in Minneapolis

Resistance is fatal: another killing in Minneapolis

For the second time this month, federal agents in Minneapolis killed a citizen under disputed circumstances. We take a wider look at the immigration-enforcement effort and what, if anything, might lim...

26 Tammi 26min

Trailer: Boss Class Season 3

Trailer: Boss Class Season 3

AI is changing how we work. It's turning us all into managers. Be a good one. The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, takes on the bots in the third season of Boss Class. From cloning to ...

24 Tammi 2min

ISIS control: Syria’s prison camp changes hands

ISIS control: Syria’s prison camp changes hands

Our Middle East correspondent reports from the largest holding camp for ISIS fighters in northern Syria, which government troops have just retaken from Kurdish control. What will happen to the inmates...

23 Tammi 27min

Grave new world: the Greenland row’s lasting damage

Grave new world: the Greenland row’s lasting damage

After an astonishing week, Donald Trump has said America will not take Greenland by force, nor put tariffs on those who oppose his acquisition plan. Our correspondent asks if America-Europe relations ...

22 Tammi 21min

House of Kurds: on the ground in northern Syria

House of Kurds: on the ground in northern Syria

In recent days Syrian government troops have tried to retake territory held by the country’s Kurdish minority. Our correspondent reports from the region. Factions are fighting to control Vietnam’s Com...

21 Tammi 20min

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