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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 …
2 years, 4 months ago
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 po…
2 years, 4 months ago
Checks and Balance: Well enough alone?
On foreign policy, trade and immigration, the Republican Party wants America to push the world away. This is a departure, but also a return to what t…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Intelligence: Iran’s dangerous game in Gaza
American airstrikes on Syrian bases linked to Iran are a reminder that Iran’s proxies lie behind many Middle East conflicts. But the ayatollahs’ angl…
2 years, 4 months ago
Money Talks: The future of crypto, part two
Last week, we spoke to the author Michael Lewis, who was embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried, as FTX, the crypto-trading empire he built, came crashing d…
2 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 months ago
Introducing The Weekend Intelligence
The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a space for our reporters and writers to take a break fr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Babbage: How to avoid a battery shortage
In the coming decades, electric vehicles will dominate the roads and renewables will provide energy to homes. But for the green transition to be succ…
2 years, 4 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, 4 months ago
Drum Tower: What does it mean to be Taiwanese?
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many have worried: is Taiwan next? China is giving Taiwan a terrifying choice: unify with China, or face war. Peo…
2 years, 4 months ago