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2026-01-14

Donald Trump has said America is “screwed” if the Supreme Court rules that his tariffs are illegal. With a ruling expected to arrive as soon as today, the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, tells The Economist’s Geopolitics editor, David Rennie, about the administration’s plan B.

2026-01-10

Why is Sherlock Holmes a gay icon in China? Jiehao Chen, co-host of the Drum Tower podcast, and Joel Budd, our senior affairs editor, discuss the famous detective’s popularity among Chinese women and what his prominence in slash fiction reveals about deeper anxieties surrounding love, marriage, and gender roles in contemporary China.

00:00 – Why are Chinese tourists visiting London for Sherlock?
01:13 – How did Sherlock become more popular than classic British literature in China?
02:25 – Why do Chinese fans see Sherlock and Watson as a love story?
03:26 – What does Sherlock fan fiction reveal about love and marriage in China?

Listen to the full episode: https://econ.st/4pImDZk
Asian tourists are returning to Britain. But they look different: https://econ.st/4hv0wlY
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2026-01-05

Donald Trump has captured the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and put him in American custody. The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes asks a panel of our experts which countries could be next on the president’s list.

00:00 – Which country is most at risk?
01:10 – What pushed Donald Trump to capture Nicolás Maduro
01:50 – The threat to Greenland
03:48 – How worried are people about annexation?

Watch the full show: https://econ.st/4jwMEZE

The United States has captured Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro: https://econ.st/4969Qu2

How the Pentagon snatched Nicolás Maduro: https://econ.st/4qvMFyY

Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere: https://econ.st/45Dimyi

The many risks to Donald Trump’s plans to “run” Venezuela:

2025-11-19

The UN has predicted that the global population will peak in 2084. Our top economics editors explain why we could reach that milestone sooner than expected. Plus, what people often get wrong about why birth rates are falling.

Watch the full show to learn about the economic impact of falling fertility rates—and whether that spells catastrophe.

00:00 – Where fertility rates have fallen
01:28 – When will the world’s population peak?
05:16 – Why women are having fewer babies

Watch the full show: https://econ.st/4ppyDyF

Don’t panic about the global fertility crash: https://econ.st/4nxGpFl

Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think: https://econ.st/4oS6u3l

A contracting population need not be a catastrophe: https://econ.st/43CEXKy

America’s fertility crash reaches a new low:

2025-11-17

For most of history parents have wanted sons, but in recent years mums and dads in the rich world have shown an emerging preference for girls. We explain why this is.

Politicians have begun taking an interest. Click the link [in our bio] to find out how they are trying to “uplift” boys

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2025-09-30

Following pressure from Donald Trump, Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has been strong-armed into a Gaza peace deal. Our Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom considers whether Hamas will agree to the deal.

2025-09-25

President Trump has taken the unusual step of stabilising Argentina’s peso, showing just how far he’ll go to support ideological allies like Javier Milei. Our Latin America correspondent, Kinley Salmon, explains why this intervention may do little for Argentina’s economy—or Milei’s re-election

2025-09-15

As cars are increasingly designed to be smartphones on wheels, Jan Piotrowski, our business columnist, argues that they should be manufactured like smartphones, too #cars #iphone #manufacturing