6. 2020 - Lost in yesterday
Opposition to the Radical Right defined the youth of many in the 1940s generation. How did one of their number become its leader?
The radical right was visible somewhere in the background all the way through the boomers’ lives. Now one of their number had made himself the hero of that movement and led it to power. Under the pressure of a pandemic, Americans had a choice. Should they give Donald Trump another chance? Or turn to another man of the 1940s, Joe Biden, who promised to rebuild the kind of economy in which he’d grown up. Unless it was all too late...
The Intelligence
The global asylum system is broken—this is how to fix it
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Editor’s Picks
The delusions plagueing Britain’s warming summers
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
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Babbage
Scientists are using AI to invent proteins from scratch
Our podcast on science and technology. Scientists can design and make novel proteins. One day they may even be able to build entire genomes.
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The Intelligence
Another delay of hostilities in Trump’s global trade war
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Editor’s Picks
An insight into Jeff Bezos’s approach to life
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
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Drum Tower
China is closing the gap with America in high-tech weaponry
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we examine the role Chinese weapons played in the recent India-Pakistan conflict—and what it means for the future of warfare
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