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The Intelligence from The Economist

by The Economist

Executive disorder: Trump’s first 100 days

30.04.2025 • 00:25:21

Since Donald Trump took office, there has been a deluge of news. Our correspondent considers what might happen next. Fifty years on from the fall of S...

The Carney army: Canada unites against Trump

29.04.2025 • 00:21:11

Canada’s election campaign was dominated by Donald Trump’s threats against the nation. Now the Liberal party has won, it faces a tougher fight: confro...

Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?

28.04.2025 • 00:20:31

Tensions between India and Pakistan have flared after the terrorist attack in Kashmir last week. Our correspondent explains what Narendra Modi may do ...

Carney score: last days of Canada’s campaign

25.04.2025 • 00:26:19

Canada’s sovereignty has loomed large in the federal election campaign, but beyond the show of national unity the country’s media and political landsc...

Fed man walking? Trump v Powell

24.04.2025 • 00:23:18

First, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was for the chop; then he was safe. As elsewhere President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping chips a...

Division multiplication: the UAE’s foreign meddling

23.04.2025 • 00:22:32

The United Arab Emirates projects an image of level-headed calm in the Gulf. Its actions abroad, however, betray a far more divisive and ideological a...

Cardinals in: choosing the next pope

22.04.2025 • 00:20:36

As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. Which of the church’s challenges will the next pope...

A man of the people: Pope Francis has died

21.04.2025 • 00:20:17

He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor reflects on the life of a reform-minded pontiff wh...

Gene genies: CRISPR’s critical moment

18.04.2025 • 00:24:01

It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine what must change in order to capture those benefits. A...

Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

17.04.2025 • 00:24:57

President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. President Donald Trump’s is not. That dynamic is complic...