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The Weekend Intelligence: Capturing UFOs
When a story about UFOs came across the desk of The Economist’s Michelle Hennessy, she was sceptical. A powerful cultural legacy of flying saucers an…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: Our meeting with Macron
France’s president is known for pronouncements of grand scope with one eye toward history. But when our journalists visited him at his residence his …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out
When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than the popular narrative would have you believe. We…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: Going back to raid school
A dramatic overnight raid in New York City was just one sign that protests at American universities are set to continue—a clear historical echo in an…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: Dengue’s grip on Latin America
The dengue-fever case counts now break regional records every year—and the structural reasons behind the spike suggest this sometimes-deadly virus wi…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: A civil society in waiting
The ruling military junta that seized power in a coup in 2021 is losing ground, slowly—and the rebels are now thinking about what happens if they win…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: Britain’s latest bad idea
As Parliament has now agreed to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, many members of the ruling Conservative party want to quit the court that tried to blo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: The world’s biggest humanitarian crisis
Ravaged by a civil war, Sudan could see a nationwide famine by August. With humanitarian aid being blocked on both sides, it is increasingly difficul…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: America’s college crackdowns
Police clashes with protesters at Columbia University have spilled over into other institutions, raising the question of how to protect free speech o…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Intelligence: AI rest my case
The companies behind this wonder of tech are facing allegations of using copyrighted material to build their large language models (LLMs). But will t…
1 year, 10 months ago