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The Economist

Join Jason Palmer and Rosie Blau for noise-cancelling news and analysis from The Economist's global network of correspondents. Every weekday this award-winning podcast picks three stories shaping your world—the big shifts in politics, business and culture, plus things you never knew you needed to know. On Saturdays, download The Weekend Intelligence to dive deep into a single story, vividly told. 

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The Intelligence from The Economist

Even before America crimped Cuba’s oil, the country was teetering. We ask what is to blame for the Cuban people’s plight, and whether anything better is in prospect. The craze of injecting peptides is not only scientifically unsupported—it is potentially dangerous. Chuck Norris once got mad at dinosaurs. Just once. Our obituaries editor recounts his unlikely rise to international manly stardom. 

Guests and host:

 • Sarah Birke, Central America and Caribbean bureau chief
 • Natasha Loder, health editor
 • Tim Cross, senior science writer
 • Ann Wroe, obituaries editor
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Cuba, Trump administration
 • peptides, wellness, pseudoscience
 • Chuck Norris

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Hasta la victoria, quizás: Cuba’s broken economy

A jury in California agreed with a plaintiff who argued that Meta and Google, two social-media giants, designed their platforms to be addictive. That opens the floodgates to more litigation and perhaps to regulatory change. We examine the world’s maritime chokepoints and how they shape geopolitics—littorally, not figuratively. And how digitally animated films came to dominate the box office.

Guests and host:

 • Tom Wainwright, media editor
 • Anton La Guardia, diplomatic editor
 • Alex Selby-Boothroyd, head of data journalism
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • social-media sites, internet use, online addiction
 • geopolitics, chokepoints, Strait of Hormuz
 • animated films

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Algorithm and blues: a watershed social-media verdict

In the daily tea leaves one might read that President Donald Trump would prefer a deal with Iran to a continuing military campaign. Where would that leave Israel and its goals? Cryptocurrencies have gained a particular foothold in Asian economies; will they become real financial infrastructure or just tools of fraud? And tracing the history of mafias through the ages. 

Guests and host:

 • Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent
 • Sue-Lin Wong, Asia correspondent
 • Jon Fasman, senior culture correspondent
 • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Iran war, Israel, America
 • cryptocurrency, Asia
 • mafias, crime families, history

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On goal difference: are America and Israel diverging on Iran?

Air strikes and border raids have turned cross-border tensions into hot conflict. We ask what raised the temperature, and whether the Iran war may act to lower it. Meanwhile that war’s oil shock brings with it fears of rising inflation; we examine how recent disruptions might inform policy decisions. And “listening parties”, once for music-industry insiders, are becoming the norm. 

Guests and host:

 • Tom Sasse, south Asia bureau chief
 • Joshua Roberts, capital markets correspondent
 • Caitlin Talbot, digital culture correspondent
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Afghanistan, Taliban, Pakistan, TTP
 • Iran war, oil shock, inflation
 • music, albums, listening parties

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(Another) all-out war: Afghanistan and Pakistan

As the war in Iran progresses, none of the options available to Donald Trump looks good. We examine each of them. Thailand’s Buddhist monks are implicated in lots of lawless and dodgy behaviour—but clearing out the bad apples is more complicated than it seems. And gene-editing comes to the fruit bowl: we look at what science is serving up next.

Guests and host:

 • Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent 
 • Alizée Jean-Baptiste, Asia senior podcasts producer
 • Maria Lisik, news editor
 • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Iran war, Donald Trump
 • Thailand, Buddhist monks
 • gene-editing, fruit

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From bad to awful: Trump’s four options in Iran

As attention has focused on war in Iran, Israel sees an opportunity to crush a weakened Hizbullah in Lebanon. Our correspondent says it would be far better for the Lebanese state to do so. As south-east Asia is modernising, Islam is counterintuitively gaining greater primacy in civic life. And a tribute to Jürgen Habermas, Germany’s and perhaps Europe’s most prominent intellectual.

Guests and host:

 • Gareth Browne, Middle East correspondent
 • Sue-Lin Wong, Asia correspondent 
 • Ann Wroe, obituaries editor
 • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Lebanon, Hizbullah, Israel, Iran war
 • Islam, south-east Asia
 • Jürgen Habermas, obituaries

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Who will deal the final blow? Israel, Lebanon and Hizbullah

A rash entry into a war of choice exposes President Donald Trump in a number of ways—and he may prove more dangerous as he becomes weaker. Turkey’s foreign entanglements mask the democratic backsliding at home; that is bad news for an opposition figure whose trial just began. And Americans seem to be taking their anger out on food-delivery robots.

Guests and host:

 • Robert Guest, deputy editor
 • Piotr Zalewski, Turkey correspondent
 • Rebecca Jackson, Southern correspondent
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Donald Trump, war in Iran
 • Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ekrem Imamoglu
 • America, delivery robots

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An act of self-harm: Trump’s latest war might be his undoing

Cancelled flights, longer routes, higher prices: the war in Iran is taking its toll on the airline industry. The conflict may force lasting change on the big Gulf carriers. We ask why the once-frothy fake-meat industry is losing its bite. And why PDFs, one of technology’s most pervasive file types, may meet their end thanks to AI. 

Guests and hosts:

 • Simon Wright, industry editor
 • Hollie Berman, news editor
 • Shera Avi-Yonah, business writer
 • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • airline industry, Iran war
 • meat substitutes, plant-based meats
 • PDFs, AI

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Flagging carriers: war shuffles the Gulf-airline flight deck

Nigeria sorely needed the enormous oil refinery built by Aliko Dangote, who was already Africa’s richest man. We ask what that new capacity means for him, for Nigeria and for the continent. We speak to the surprisingly large and diverse Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles. And how a cancer diagnosis seems to drive some people to a life of crime. 

Guests and host:

 • Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi – Africa correspondent
 • Aryn Braun – West Coast correspondent
 • Ainslie Johnstone – data journalist 
 • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Aliko Dangote, Nigeria, oil, energy security
 • Iran’s diaspora, California
 • cancer, crime, data 

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Barrel vault: a Nigerian refining giant rises

Control of the Strait of Hormuz has become the focus of the war in Iran. The options available point to an acute risk of a broadening regional conflict. China is making great strides in building humanoid robots—but so far they are more about entertainment than utility. And a look at the science to help you get power naps right.

Guests and hosts:

 • Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent
 • Don Weinland, China business and finance editor
 • Harry Taunton, audience editor
 • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
 • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

 • Iran war, Strait of Hormuz, Middle East 
 • China, humanoid robots
 • power naps, wellness

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