Pestilent peninsula: covid in North Korea
Economist Podcasts19 Touko 2022

Pestilent peninsula: covid in North Korea

North Korea’s zero-covid strategy appears to have failed. The country has officially acknowledged 162 cases; the true number is probably orders of magnitude more. The country’s health-care system is inadequate, and pre-existing conditions such as tuberculosis and malnutrition are rampant. With elections impending in Turkey, politicians have begun competing with each other to scapegoat refugees. And why girls outperform boys in the Arab world’s schools.

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The Intelligence: meeting Senegal’s president

The Intelligence: meeting Senegal’s president

As country after country in the Sahel has fallen prey to coups, President Macky Sall’s Senegal seemed an outpost of stability. Yet our correspondent finds him less than sanguine about democracy in the...

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The Intelligence: Israel’s Gaza offensive

The Intelligence: Israel’s Gaza offensive

The long-anticipated invasion is not the expected blitzkrieg; we ask how a longer, more cautious war will be fought. Kemal Ataturk is still wildly popular a century after he founded modern Turkey—so i...

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Checks and Balance: Well enough alone?

Checks and Balance: Well enough alone?

On foreign policy, trade and immigration, the Republican Party wants America to push the world away. This is a departure, but also a return to what the party used to believe. How did the Republican Pa...

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The Intelligence: Iran’s dangerous game in Gaza

The Intelligence: Iran’s dangerous game in Gaza

American airstrikes on Syrian bases linked to Iran are a reminder that Iran’s proxies lie behind many Middle East conflicts. But the ayatollahs’ angling for wider war in Gaza is a deeply dangerous gam...

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Money Talks: The future of crypto, part two

Money Talks: The future of crypto, part two

Last week, we spoke to the author Michael Lewis, who was embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried, as FTX, the crypto-trading empire he built, came crashing down amid allegations of fraud, which Mr Bankman-Fri...

26 Loka 202343min

The Intelligence: America gets a House speaker

The Intelligence: America gets a House speaker

With the accession of Mike Johnson as the lower chamber’s majority leader, Congress can at last get back to lawmaking—unless the leadership circus starts again. China’s banks may be loaded up with hid...

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Introducing The Weekend Intelligence

Introducing The Weekend Intelligence

The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a space for our reporters and writers to take a break from the news cycle, to tell the stories that mean th...

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Babbage: How to avoid a battery shortage

Babbage: How to avoid a battery shortage

In the coming decades, electric vehicles will dominate the roads and renewables will provide energy to homes. But for the green transition to be successful, unprecedented amounts of energy storage is ...

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