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The Intelligence from The Economist — 62 episodes

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Right in front: AfD could win German state

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After the flood: Nepal’s ongoing rescue

3

Big shot: does a cancer vaccine work?

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Slip the surly bonds? Scott Bessent goes on a yield trip

5

An interview with Yuval Noah Harari

6

Bombs and bombshells: Zelensky under pressure

7

Wake-up haul: an Ozempic moment for the brain

8

Settler bet: a West Bank flashpoint

9

It’s not easy being Green: Zack Polanski

10

Afghanistan, five years on: our correspondent visits

11

Caracas under pressure: democracy in Venezuela

12

Pump and circumstance: is China the new OPEC?

13

Spring, then fall: a weakened Muslim Brotherhood

14

Under strAIn: breaking the British state

15

Outsider chance: ending Sudan’s proxy war

16

Socialist mobility: a telling Michigan vote

17

Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures

18

In arms’ way: Gaza-deal sticking points

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Taken littorally: Spain’s sudden crisis in Ceuta

20

Omission accomplished: why the Iran-war cycle spins on

21

Working memory: the surprising decline of dementia

22

Brave New whirl: Turkey’s opposition overhaul

23

Burning questions: a more fire-prone world

24

Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India’s remarkable protests

25

An interview with Elon Musk

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For bucks’ sake: the rise of self-made billionaires

27

Kyiv brawl: Ukraine’s top general fired

28

You’ve come a long way, Bibi: Israel’s crucial election

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In it to bin it: Nigel Farage v Count Binface

30

Strait and narrowing: the Iran deal crumbles

31

The case of the missing totem: Aung San Suu Kyi

32

The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday

33

Roaring trades: oil majors’ secret success story

34

Fear-jerker: America’s AI backlash

35

Starmergeddon: British PM resigns

36

Coming in Andy: Britain's prime minister-in-waiting

37

First rate: Kevin Warsh’s Fed debut

38

View from the summit: what did the G7 achieve?

39

Kicking and screaming: protests at World Cup

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Number crunch: why Britons ignore immigrant drop

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There Xi goes: visiting North Korea

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Ceasefire alarm: Iran and Israel trade strikes

43

Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility

44

A murder exploited: Britain’s George Floyd moment that wasn’t

45

Focused group: Ukraine is now Europe’s war

46

Head out of the cloud: Nvidia’s personal-computer shift

47

Mistrusting the process: containing Congo’s Ebola outbreak

48

New world of warcraft: how conflict has forever changed

49

Deal or ordeal: Trump’s bad options in Cuba

50

What price victory? Ukraine on the front foot

51

No big deal: murky Iran-war negotiations

52

Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading

53

Big boosts to fill: SpaceX’s giant IPO

54

The Peking order: Xi meets Putin after Trump

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Bibi, one more time? Israel’s election launches

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Spread too thin: Africa’s next Ebola outbreak

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Equal before the law? Transitional justice in Syria

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Top dog-whistler: Tommy Robinson and Britain’s far right

59

Apocalypse soon? AI could hasten bioweapons

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On the off chancellor: Friedrich Merz, one year in

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Naval piercing: strait shooting in Iran war

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Spoils of war: money flows into defence tech