How powerful is Nigel Farage?

2025-04-28

Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.

The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, is here to help. The second season of Boss Class features leaders at some of the world’s best performing companies, from Levi’s to Novo Nordisk to Google.

New episodes are out weekly starting May 12th.

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2025-04-24

From mid-week golf to living in the suburbs, working from home has brought many benefits. The Economist’s Archie Hall discusses the pros and cons on The Intelligence

2025-04-21

He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor reflects on the life of a reform-minded pontiff (https://www.economist.com/obituary/2025/04/21/pope-francis-changed-the-catholic-church-but-not-as-much-as-he-hoped?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) who preferred to be among his flock. High-protein snacks (https://www.economist.com/business/2025/03/06/catering-to-protein-rich-diets-is-a-tasty-business?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 on an absolute tear, and one explanation is

2025-02-18

Google DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei, are two of the world’s foremost leaders in artificial intelligence. Our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, sat down with them to discuss AI safety, timelines for artificial general intelligence and whether they fear becoming the Oppenheimers of our time, in a conversation for Visionaries Club.

How AI will divide the best from the rest: https://econ.st/3X8yVhv
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong: https://econ.st/3ELKkgX
Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump: https://econ.st/4hUcDs0

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2025-02-14

Lab-grown diamonds have become increasingly popular in recent years but, with prices now falling, have they started to become too successful for their own good?

2025-02-10

The Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in the 1980s as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are over- or under-valued. Here‘s how it works.

2025-02-08

How do you run a scam operation?

Perks, recruitment, outsourcing and a monthly landscaping budget—this is Scam Inc.

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2024-12-03

The country has been turning increasingly away from Europe and towards Russia—but a halt to EU-accession talks has sparked enormous demonstrations (https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/12/02/huge-anti-russian-protests-in-tbilisi-echo-ukraines-maidan?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). Researchers know unequivocally that ultra-processed foods are bad for you; we look into the persistent question of why