The Intelligence: Lebanon’s peace plan for Gaza
One month on from Hamas’ attack on Israel, we meet Najib Mikati. He is hoping to prevent Hizbullah from joining the conflict, and broader spillover into the rest of the Middle East. Can he? The Americ...
7 Nov 202326min
The Intelligence: embedded in Gaza
Israeli troops are gearing up to enter Gaza city, bracing for the next round of urban warfare. Our correspondent spends some time with a brigade on the front-lines. How prepared are they for the task ...
6 Nov 202323min
The Weekend Intelligence: The hope and the heartbreak of IVF
In our second episode of The Weekend Intelligence, The Economist correspondents Catherine Brahic and Sacha Nauta tell a different story about fertility treatment. A story about the pain, the hope and ...
4 Nov 202349min
The Intelligence: Sam Bankman-Fried convicted
From can-do-no-wrong wunderkind to one of the biggest fraudsters in the history of finance: we look at Sam Bankman-Fried’s fall and conviction, and what it has done to the wider cryptocurrency industr...
3 Nov 202328min
The Intelligence: stalemate in Ukraine
General Valery Zaluzhny concedes that five months of counter-offensive have not gained much—and can see from history why the impasse may be impassable. Paris is starting to nip at London’s heels in th...
2 Nov 202322min
The Intelligence: Gaza sparks a global culture war
Online and on-screen reactions to the conflict reflect a subtle but important shift in Western attitudes, driven by three related forces: technology, demography and ideology. Britain’s King Charles is...
1 Nov 202324min
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...
31 Okt 202323min
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...
30 Okt 202328min
