Economist Podcasts
By The Economist
Every weekday our global network of correspondents makes sense of the stories beneath the headlines. We bring you surprising trends and tales from around the world, current affairs, business and finance — as well as science and technology.
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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 assessment of the state of the world was bleak—a dark, prophetic -
The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out
When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are -
Babbage: Teens and their screens
Ever since there have been smartphones and social media, there have been concerns about how they might be affecting children. Over the past decade, doctors have seen a decline in mental health in the young in much of the rich world. But whet… -
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 -
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 Intelligence: A civil society in waiting
The ruling military junta that seized power in a coup in 2021 is -
Checks and Balance: Aid, and a bet
For months, a big foreign-aid deal looked like it was -
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 -
The Intelligence: The world’s biggest humanitarian crisis
Ravaged by a civil war, Sudan could see a -
The Intelligence: America’s college crackdowns
Police clashes with protesters at Columbia University h…