The big gag: Hong Kong’s crackdown on freedom

The big gag: Hong Kong’s crackdown on freedom

There has been a slow strangling of freedom in the territory where pro-democracy activists have been convicted; an annual vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing in 1989 has been replaced by a food fair. A boom in startups suggests America is recovering its pioneering spirit (8:06). And remembering June Mendoza, portrait painter to the royals, and the less well-known (16:28).


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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...

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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 Jan 22min

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 c...

26 Jan 2min

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 Jan 26min

Trailer: Boss Class Season 3

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25 Jan 2min

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