Meet the boss: Liz Reid of Google
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Season 2, we’re releasing an extended interview alongside each episode. This week: Who needs s...
Innovation: Coming up with new ideas
12 May 2025
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Forget the hammocks and ping-pong tables. Creativity takes work. Managers at Google, Lego and a pair...
Duty falls: US and China reach a deal
12 May 2025
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Tariffs against China were the centrepiece of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” trade plans. Our...
Holy smoke! An American pope
09 May 2025
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The choice of Robert Prevost reflects a desire for unity and compromise. But insofar as Pope Leo XIV...
Identity parades: our VE-Day special
08 May 2025
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Eighty years since the surrender of Nazi forces, we consider the differing ways that nations frame t...
Neighbour-rattling: India strikes Pakistan
07 May 2025
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Two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, Indian missiles streaked into Pakistan. Will the reta...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
06 May 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
First not past the post: Germany’s chancellor shocker
06 May 2025
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In a post-war first, Germany’s round of parliamentary voting for a chancellor did not produce one....
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
05 May 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
People vilify plastic. they should use it better instead
05 May 2025
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Many people view plastic as an environmental disaster that blights landscapes and chokes marine life...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
02 May 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
Aussie rules: give Trumpism the boot
02 May 2025
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Australia’s Conservative party was on the ascent until Donald Trump took office in January. At the...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
01 May 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
Mine craft: US-Ukraine resource deal
01 May 2025
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America and Ukraine have signed a deal to share the profits of extracting natural resources. Our cor...
Herman Pontzer: what people get wrong about metabolism
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:54:05 GMT
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Do you run, cycle or swim to lose weight? Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist who special...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
30 Apr 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
Executive disorder: Trump’s first 100 days
30 Apr 2025
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Since Donald Trump took office, there has been a deluge of news. Our correspondent considers what mi...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
29 Apr 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
The Carney army: Canada unites against Trump
29 Apr 2025
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Canada’s election campaign was dominated by Donald Trump’s threats against the nation. Now the L...
Interview: Tracey Franklin
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:42:00 GMT
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Tracey Franklin, chief human resources officer at vaccine and biotech company Moderna, tells The Eco...
Interview: Daniel Kahneman
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:41:00 GMT
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The careers of many CEOs are built on overconfidence and a few lucky breaks. But to be a successful ...
Interview: Claire Hughes Johnson
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:40:00 GMT
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The Economist's Andrew Palmer asks Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe and author of "Scalin...
Interview: Emma Walmsley
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:39:00 GMT
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In 2017 Emma Walmsley became the most powerful woman in corporate Britain. The boss of the drugmaker...
Interview: Reid Hoffman
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:38:00 GMT
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On the cover of his latest book, Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, Reid Hoffman credits...
Managing yourself: Human factors
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:37:00 GMT
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The Economist’s Andrew Palmer seeks advice on managing your cognitive load, your career path and t...
Incentivising: Into the upside down
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:36:00 GMT
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The Economist's Andrew Palmer asks how companies motivate employees to do their best work. He hears ...
Meetings: The clown car
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:35:00 GMT
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What if all the meetings in your calendar disappeared overnight? Tia Silas, Chief HR Officer of Shop...
Teamwork: Inside the yellow line
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:34:00 GMT
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Taavet Hinrikus, the co-founder of Wise, one of the world’s biggest fintech firms, gives advice on...
Recruitment: Testing, testing
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:33:00 GMT
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It is the most important decision a manager can make. How do you increase your chances of hiring the...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
28 Apr 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?
28 Apr 2025
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Tensions between India and Pakistan have flared after the terrorist attack in Kashmir last week. Our...
Carney score: last days of Canada’s campaign
25 Apr 2025
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Canada’s sovereignty has loomed large in the federal election campaign, but beyond the show of nat...
Fed man walking? Trump v Powell
24 Apr 2025
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First, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was for the chop; then he was safe. As elsewh...
Division multiplication: the UAE’s foreign meddling
23 Apr 2025
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The United Arab Emirates projects an image of level-headed calm in the Gulf. Its actions abroad, how...
Cardinals in: choosing the next pope
22 Apr 2025
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As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. W...
A man of the people: Pope Francis has died
21 Apr 2025
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He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor ...
Gene genies: CRISPR’s critical moment
18 Apr 2025
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It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine what...
Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions
17 Apr 2025
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President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. Pres...
Cash and checks: Argentina’s next IMF loan
16 Apr 2025
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For the 23rd time the International Monetary Fund will cough up, this time to the tune of $20bn. But...
The buck stops here? The threats to dollar primacy
15 Apr 2025
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Falling trust in the greenback is most apparent in bond-market moves. How close is the dollar to los...
Bloody Sunday: Russia’s strikes on Sumy
14 Apr 2025
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President Donald Trump called the weekend strike on Sumy a “mistake”; other leaders called it a ...
The great brawl: China v America
11 Apr 2025
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Donald Trump is now aiming his trade war squarely at China. As the tit-for-tat tariff battle keeps e...
Art of the real: Trump bows to markets
10 Apr 2025
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Just 12 hours after Donald Trump launched his searing regime of tariffs, he paused many of them for ...
Pulp friction: the trade war bites Apple
09 Apr 2025
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As Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs take effect, our correspondent explains how one of America’s ...
Economies of sail: migrant-smuggling entrepreneurs
08 Apr 2025
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More than 36,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats last year. Our correspondent in...
Doomed traders: Trump’s tariff fallout
07 Apr 2025
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Since Donald Trump announced punishing tariffs on “Liberation Day” last week, stock markets have...
Over the Yoon: South Korea ousts president
04 Apr 2025
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South Korea has been paralysed since its president declared martial law in December. Even after his ...
Import-extort: what to make of Donald Trump’s titanic tariffs
03 Apr 2025
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After months of bluster, he’s finally done it. At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Donal...
Wall of duties: Trump’s towering tariffs
03 Apr 2025
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Even in the run-up to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes, few had expected such colo...
Ballot from the blue: will Ukraine hold a poll?
02 Apr 2025
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Months ago, holding an election in wartorn Ukraine seemed impossible. Now plans are being made. Our ...
Right down: Le Pen barred
01 Apr 2025
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Marine Le Pen is one of France’s most popular politicians, who has brought the National Rally part...
Shock and war: Myanmar junta exploits quake
31 Mar 2025
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Civil war in Myanmar is hampering relief efforts after the devastating earthquake on Friday, as the ...
Whack of all trades: America’s economy
28 Mar 2025
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No surprises here: The Economist reckons tariffs are a terrible trade tool. But what is most clearly...
You spin me right round: Europe’s populists reckon with Trumpism
27 Mar 2025
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For Europe’s hard-right politicians, Donald Trump’s second White House bid looked like validatio...
Canuck of the draw: Canada’s election campaigns
26 Mar 2025
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The Conservative Party, led by a Trump-tinged populist, once had the polls locked up. That is changi...
The chat is out of the bag: a stunning leak
25 Mar 2025
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Put aside for the moment the outrageous security breach of a journalist being brought in on classifi...
Bibi driver: battles led by and within Israel
24 Mar 2025
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The ceasefire in Gaza is in tatters; the campaign against Hizbullah is flaring up again. Yet the mos...
Spy-fall: Trump imperils intelligence pact
21 Mar 2025
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America’s international intelligence-sharing relationships have been decades in the making and rel...
Not so delightful: Erdogan arrests rival
20 Mar 2025
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Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested just days before he was likely to be elected leader of Turkey’s opposi...
Cold call: Putin thwarts Trump
19 Mar 2025
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Donald Trump hoped Vladimir Putin would agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. Instead he made marginal co...
Peace broken: war returns to Gaza
18 Mar 2025
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After Israel launched dozens of missiles into Gaza overnight, what does this mean for the prospect o...
In sickness and in stealth: threats to America’s CDC
17 Mar 2025
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Donald Trump’s team has called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “the most incompet...
Wheels of justice: the ICC gets Duterte at last
14 Mar 2025
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The International Criminal Court has arrested Rodrigo Duterte, a former president of the Philippines...
When the levy doesn’t break: a trade-war world adjusts
13 Mar 2025
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The Trump administration’s dedication to tariffs now seems more fervent than the first time around...
Thirty-day trial? A Ukraine-ceasefire proposal
12 Mar 2025
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The ceasefire proposal hatched by American negotiators and agreed by Ukraine is now a matter for Rus...
Sects and balances: a violent flare-up in Syria
11 Mar 2025
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Horrifying attacks on Alawites, the sect of deposed leader Bashar al-Assad, throw into question the ...
No question, Mark: Canada’s new PM
10 Mar 2025
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The governing Liberal party is enjoying a stunning turnaround in the polls, and now it has a new lea...
One week in the life of Volodymyr Zelensky
07 Mar 2025
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After a turbulent seven days, how will President Volodymyr Zelensky tackle the domestic and internat...
Kurds in the right place: a truce nears
06 Mar 2025
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The leader of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels has called on the group to disband. That could end one of th...
Pompcast: Trump rallies Congress
05 Mar 2025
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American presidents often use their first meeting with Congress as a chance to lay out their agenda ...
Buck off: US pauses Ukraine aid
04 Mar 2025
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In an effort to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table, America has paused military help to the war-...
Conversation peace: can Europe bargain with Russia?
03 Mar 2025
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European leaders met in London this weekend after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s public row...
Ode to dread: Europe after Trump
28 Feb 2025
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This week European leaders have lined up to charm Donald Trump. But the broad smiles belie a bigger ...
Heir-raising: the boom in inheritance
27 Feb 2025
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As the baby-boom generation starts to die and economic growth slows many more people are getting ric...
Phase transition? Gaza’s shaky peace
26 Feb 2025
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The first phase of Gaza’s ceasefire is near its end, but planning for the even more fraught second...
Emmanuel dexterity: Trump and Macron chat
25 Feb 2025
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The meeting between France’s and America’s presidents had a familiarly chummy feel. We ask wheth...
Left, right and centre: Germany’s election
24 Feb 2025
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Instead of needing three parties to cobble together a majority, the country’s two traditional main...
Friends (the one with estrangement): Europe without the US
21 Feb 2025
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Europe must move boldly as the American-led world order shatters beneath it; we explain how. Many pe...
Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation
20 Feb 2025
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Africa’s young are educated, ambitious side-hustlers. But they are hampered by their economies and...
Colour visions: a German-election lookahead
19 Feb 2025
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The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party l...
Get your Strait facts: China’s quiet Taiwan push
18 Feb 2025
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We investigate China’s under-the-radar push to get other countries to change their official langua...
Munich insecurity conference: a re-ordering begins
17 Feb 2025
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Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense f...
Love match: Modi-Trump’s tariffs tussle
14 Feb 2025
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The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the...
With this ring: Trump and Putin omit Ukraine
13 Feb 2025
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During a 90-minute telephone conversation, the American and Russian presidents started negotiating a...
War hoarse: is Zelensky being heard?
12 Feb 2025
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In an interview with The Economist ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine’s president is...
Eye to the chancellor: interviewing Friedrich Merz
11 Feb 2025
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The winner of Germany’s upcoming election will also play a crucial role in Europe. The Economist’...
I’ll be jammed: electronic warfare in Ukraine
10 Feb 2025
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Some of the most frenetic innovation of Ukraine’s war happens in the electromagnetic spectrum: det...
Scam Inc 3: The bottom line
08 Feb 2025
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How do you run a scam operation? Perks, recruitment, outsourcing and a monthly landscaping budg...
Scam Inc 2: Opportunity of a lifetime
08 Feb 2025
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Who are the scammers? They aren't who you think. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economis...
Scam Inc 1: Pigs in a barrel
08 Feb 2025
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You wouldn’t fall for a scam—would you? A small town in Kansas is left reeling after one of its ...
It could happen to you: introducing “Scam Inc”
07 Feb 2025
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Our new podcast series is a shocking look at transnational organised crime: nearly as big as the ill...
Leeward: we meet South Korea’s probable president
06 Feb 2025
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We meet the opposition leader who is likely to be the next president. Cleaning up the domestic mess ...
Trailer: Scam Inc
05 Feb 2025
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A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
As a next resort: Trump’s vision for Gaza
05 Feb 2025
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The details President Donald Trump laid out for American ownership and redevelopment of the Gaza Str...
Rebel with a new cause: meeting Syria’s president
04 Feb 2025
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From media-studies dropout to international jihadist to Syria’s ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa has an unli...
Trailer: Scam Inc
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
Thy neighbours, beggared: Trump’s opening tariffs
03 Feb 2025
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President Donald Trump followed through on his tariff threats, starting with Canada, Mexico and Chin...
Below Delhi, the search for India's mythical past
01 Feb 2025
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The Mahabharata is one of India’s two great Hindu epics. It is thousands of years old and thousand...
Turkish delight: influencing the new Syria
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria will reshape the wider region. Our correspondent says few count...
Trailer: Scam Inc
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...