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2025-01-29

Is America becoming a tech oligarchy? Our business columnist explains why Silicon Valley’s moguls don’t have as much influence over President Trump as it might seem

2025-01-23

Nations that subjugate women tend to be more unstable and violent. Here’s why.

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00:00 – Why nations that fail women, fail
00:55 – South Sudan: deadly cattle raids
02:10 – How bride price is destabilising
03:45 – Child marriage
05:29 – Polygamous unions
06:57 – Male kinship group
08:25 – Misogyny and instability
10:07 – Women in leadership
11.04 – Liberia’s women peace movement
12:46 – Women in peace negotiations

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2025-01-20

Quiet skies, returned Israeli hostages, Gazans going back home: there is much to celebrate (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/01/19/the-start-of-a-fragile-truce-in-gaza-offers-relief-and-joy?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), for the moment. We examine the path to a more robust and lasting peace. Britain’s minimum-wage rise is good news for those who earned less—but those who earned not much more are feeling more squeezed

2024-11-21

AI is driving a transformation across all fields of science, from developing drugs for incurable diseases and improving the understanding of animal communication to self-driving labs. Could this prompt a new golden age of discovery?

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00:00 – How AI is revolutionising science
02:53 – Drug discovery
04:31 – AlphaFold
05:30 – Adoption of AI in science
07:08 – Animal communication
09:26 – Scientific fraud
11:03 – Self-driving labs
14:36 – Future of AI in science

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2024-11-13

A week after Donald Trump won a decisive victory in the presidential election, he is making appointments (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/11/12/how-to-get-hired-by-donald-trump?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) to his new White House. What do they tell us about his second term? Many European governments are turning against immigration but they still need agricultural migrants (https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/10/31/the-immigrants-europe-quietly-wants-more-of?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) (10:29). And why place

2024-11-08

By picking J.D. Vance as his vice-president, Donald Trump crowned an heir apparent to the MAGA movement. But how did the one-time liberal darling and Trump critic become the next president’s right-hand man? We explain

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2024-09-13

Capsule that can withstand vacuum? Check. Low-pressure spacesuit? Check. Space-friendly Doritos? Check. The first spacewalk by private citizens (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/28/billionaire-space-travel-heads-for-a-new-frontier?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) showcases SpaceX’s prowess, the viability of privately funded exploration—and extraplanetary product placement. Gene editing

2024-09-10

The EU’s unofficial chief technocrat issued a doorstop of a report outlining how the bloc can boost growth (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/09/09/can-anything-spark-europes-economy-back-to-life?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) and keep up in a changing world. Is it all too ambitious? Mexico’s lame-duck president has one last project in mind: undermining the judiciary (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/08/29/amlos-dangerous-last-blast-threatens-mexico?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) (10:44). And as the