Them that’s got shall have: student-debt reli...

Tim Cook is stepping down after overseeing 15 years of spectacular growth. We take a look at his successor. Japan’s rural women are disproportionately heading to cities, and their home towns are working hard to lure them back. And a historical examination of boredom, and why Brit ...  Show more

This week’s peace talks are endangered after American forces fired on and boarded a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. We visit Chernobyl’s ruined reactor to assess the damage done by a Russian drone to its enormous safety structure. The likes of McDonald’s and KFC have long bee ...  Show more

America’s federal government will spend hundreds of billions of dollars <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/08/25/biden-spends-hundreds-of-billions-on-reducing-student-loan-debt?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content ...  Show more

Today, the president will meet with the Republican leader in the house of representatives to try and prevent the country from <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/05/19/could-the-14th-amendment-fix-americas-debt-ceiling-debacle?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=aud ...

A national-security law imposed by Beijing had not, until this week, bared its teeth; <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/01/09/hong-kong-arrests-dozens-of-pro-democracy-activists?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_conten ...

The country’s children have missed more in-person learning than those in most of the rich world—<a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/12/17/test-results-in-american-schools-plummeted-during-the-pandemic?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source= ...