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2026-04-15

Donald Trump’s central war aim in Iran is to stop the country’s nuclear-weapons programme. But the conflict may have aggravated the nuclear threat. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, sits down with David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, to discuss the current state of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme and what—if anything— could stop the regime from building a bomb.

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00:00 – The current state of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme
02:32 – Was Iran close to getting a bomb before the war?
04:30 – Will the Iranian regime sprint for a bomb?
07:09 – Can Iran’s nuclear programme be bombed out of existence?

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2026-04-11

Peter Magyar, the leader of Hungary’s opposition, is presenting a serious challenge to Viktor Orban’s 16-year rein in the upcoming elections.

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2026-03-06

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s boss, says he will challenge Donald Trump’s ban in court. Last week the administration banned federal agencies from using Anthropic’s AI tools after the company insisted that Claude, its main model, not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.

Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, sat down with the Anthropic boss to discuss this power struggle and the difficulty of preventing an AI race to the bottom. Click the link in our bio to watch the full interview on Friday at 6pm London time.

#ai #artificialintelligence #anthropic #claude #trump

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2026-02-28

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, its army has suffered approximately 1.2 million casualties, but Vladimir Putin still won’t end the war. Why?

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2026-01-09

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he wants to reduce Israel’s reliance on American military aid to zero within ten years. In an interview with The Economist, Mr Netanyahu said while it was “much appreciated”, his country had “come of age” and its economy would soon reach “a trillion dollars”.

2026-01-07

As warfare becomes increasingly autonomous, who should make life-and-death decisions—humans or machines?
Torsten Reil, the co-founder of Helsing, explains why humans must always remain in the loop, even as rivals like Russia and China grow more comfortable handing control to AI.Click the link in our bio to watch the full episode.

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

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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:

2025-11-12

On the eve of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a British delegation warned Russian generals not to go ahead. Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, speaks to one of those who issued that warning: John Foreman, Britain’s former defence attaché in Moscow. They discuss what it was like to hear his Russian counterparts lie about their intentions in Ukraine, how Vladimir Putin miscalculated the invasion and the weaknesses of Russia’s armed forces.

00:00 – In the room with Russia on the brink of war
02:48 – Was Vladimir Putin lying to his generals?
03:49 – Russian hubris in the full-scale invasion
05:14 – The intelligence “bubble” around Putin
06:40 – The future of the Russian armed forces

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