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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 st…
2 years, 9 months ago
Introducing The Weekend Intelligence
The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist that will transport you away from the hectic week towards broa…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Intelligence: Israeli hostages’ fortunes
A network of captives’ families has sprung up to accomplish what Israel’s government has so far failed to do—and may yet emerge as a political force.…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Intelligence: Navalny’s peril deepens
President Vladimir Putin has long had it in for Alexei Navalny, Russia’s principal opposition figure. But now his lawyers are in peril, too, and Mr N…
2 years, 9 months ago
Poll vault: Argentina’s Peronist surprise
After dominating the polls for months, Javier Miliei, a right-wing firebrand, was outshone by the candidate from the ruling Peronist administration. …
2 years, 9 months ago
The day Hamas came: a report from an Israeli kibbutz
They fled round after round of gunfire, hid for hours and saved hundreds of lives. It is a rare story of survival on what was a horrific day for Isra…
2 years, 9 months ago
Genocide returns: slaughter in Sudan
From a refugee camp in Chad, we speak with those fleeing murder in Darfur. Reporting on the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and a powerful para…
2 years, 9 months ago
Diplomacy up in smoke: Biden visits Israel
A fatal explosion at a hospital-cum-shelter has led to outrage and the canceling of the very summit that the US president had flown in for. America’s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Invaluable bonds: rising borrowing costs
America may have avoided a government shutdown last month but its fiscal worries are far from over. And unease in bond markets will spill over into t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Pole position: elections in Poland
After two terms in power, Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist party looks to have lost its majority. For Donald Tusk’s pro-Europe centrists, it’s bargai…
2 years, 10 months ago