Will Americans trust the outcome of the 2024 election?
2024-10-29
Americans have the lowest confidence of all G7 countries in their national institutions. With a pivotal election looming, this is deeply worrying. Our social affairs editor explains why.
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Mapping Putin’s covert war in Europe
2024-10-15
Arson, cyber attacks and assassination attempts. There’s been a sudden increase in suspicious incidents across Europe—all linked to Russia. We’ve mapped these events and found a pattern in Vladimir Putin’s new tactics.
Will both the House and Senate flip?
2024-10-14
Never before in a US election have chambers of Congress, split between the two parties, both flipped. But according to our US election forecast model, there’s a very good chance it could happen this November. Idrees Kahloon, our Washington bureau chief, explains why the race for Capitol Hill should be attracting more attention.
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Extremes come true: Germany’s far-right triumph
2024-09-02
The hard right has taken Germany into uncharted territory (https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/09/01/the-hard-right-takes-germany-into-uncharted-territory?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners), winning one state election and racking up a large share in another. The far left is on the march too. Is Germany dividing into East and West again? Motorbike taxis (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/08/15/cheap-asian-motorcycles-are-transforming-african-cities?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) are transforming Africa’s cities
What Trump means for nuclear defence
2024-08-15
Donald Trump is a fan of nuclear weapons. If he were to win the 2024 election he would make nuclear deterrence even more unstable
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1843: Inside a nuclear-power station on Ukraine’s front line: https://econ.st/4dIfjql
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AIOU: what if the AI boom busts?
2024-08-13
Corporate investment in artificial-intelligence infrastructure reaches $1.4trn by some estimates. We ask what might threaten (https://www.economist.com/business/2024/07/28/what-could-kill-the-1trn-artificial-intelligence-boom?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) the expected windfalls that justify the spending. A Japanese mine’s bid to be listed by UNESCO was made harder because it ignores South Korean wartime forced labour (10:49). And why a nicotine pouch
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