Menace to democracy: The January 6th hearings
Economist Podcasts17 Kesä 2022

Menace to democracy: The January 6th hearings

In its third public hearing yesterday, the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol insurrection detailed the pressure put on Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election—as well as the continuing threat to American democracy posed by Donald Trump. Can artificial intelligence become sentient, and if it did, how would we know? And why internet shutdowns are a costly and ineffective way to stop students from cheating. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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The gains in Ukraine: stalled Russia plainly wanes

The gains in Ukraine: stalled Russia plainly wanes

Ukraine’s army has pushed Russian forces back in the south and east. We ask how they’ve managed to make such impressive gains so quickly, whether more could follow and what Russia’s reaction might be....

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Bloody and forgotten: Conflict in eastern Congo

Bloody and forgotten: Conflict in eastern Congo

Our correspondent reports from eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousands, and forced more than five million people from their homes--with no end in sight. Researchers are ...

6 Loka 202227min

It does mean a thing: America’s swing voters

It does mean a thing: America’s swing voters

In the next instalment of our midterms series, we head to the suburbs of Atlanta in search of that rarest of political creatures: the swing voter. There aren’t many of them, but they may well determin...

5 Loka 202227min

Misplaced Truss? Britain’s ruling party meets

Misplaced Truss? Britain’s ruling party meets

Prime Minister Liz Truss has had a bruising first few weeks in office. Amid policy U-turns and plummeting poll numbers, her Tory party’s annual shindig is a venue for much soul-searching. Russia’s “pa...

4 Loka 202225min

Poll vaulter: Brazil’s surprise election result

Poll vaulter: Brazil’s surprise election result

Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent president, did unexpectedly well—giving his campaign a boost and foreshadowing a tough run-up to the second round. Malawi’s incipient democracy stands as a shining region...

3 Loka 202223min

Form-annex trick: Russia’s Ukraine-seizure bid

Form-annex trick: Russia’s Ukraine-seizure bid

After a series of sham referendums, President Vladimir Putin is expected to annex four partly occupied regions of Ukraine. We ask what risks that move would pose. What has driven China’s president to ...

30 Syys 202223min

Lula loop: meeting Brazil’s presidential front-runner

Lula loop: meeting Brazil’s presidential front-runner

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, looks well-placed to win a third term. But which Lula would Brazil get—the fiscal conservative or the populist spendthrift? Germany has an earned...

29 Syys 202227min

Off the top of their heads: Iran’s widespread protests

Off the top of their heads: Iran’s widespread protests

Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the unrest has come to be about far more than the heavy hands of the morality police. The murder of Abe Shinzo, a former Japan...

28 Syys 202225min

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