Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the March 23rd 2019 edition
To understand the future of Silicon Valley, look across the Atlantic, where the European Union is pioneering a new way of controlling big te...
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The Economist: Tasting menu
A selection of the tastiest morsels from The Economist's print edition - offering a pithy selection of our articles, audio and readers' feedback. Published every Monday on Economist Radio.
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Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the March 16th 2019 edition
After Theresa May’s deal was decisively rejected for a second time, Brexit will almost certainly be delayed. It is time for Parliament to se...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the March 9th 2019 edition
A new “scramble for Africa” is taking place. This time Africans themselves stand to benefit the most. Also, a dispatch from the frozen Antar...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the March 2nd 2019 edition
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi may be hoping brinkmanship against Pakistan will fire up voters ahead of April’s elections. Both countr...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 23rd 2019 edition
The Chinese economic model of steroidal state capitalism is facing a global backlash and offering diminishing returns. Can President Xi be p...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 16th 2019 edition
After three decades in the wilderness, socialism is back. Millennial socialists offer a sharp critique of what has gone wrong in Western soc...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 9th 2019 edition
Despite wildfires and polar freezes, energy firms are planning to increase fossil fuel production. The climate consequences could be grave....
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 2nd 2019 edition
The world’s democracies are right to seek change in Venezuela. The question is how. Plus, why Christian pilgrims are flocking to Abu Dhabi,...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the January 26th 2019 edition
The global flow of money and goods is stagnating. The world needs to prepare for a new era of “slowbalisation”. Plus, why more people are br...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the January 19th 2019 edition
This week's cover story analyses Britain's Brexit mess and argues the case for a second referendum as the only way out of it. Also, why mode...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the January 12th 2019 edition
Could China become a scientific superpower? Plus, the perils of competitive parenting and a movement for gender equality in European street...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the January 5th 2019 edition
As Donald Trump enters the second half of his first term, his luck may be about to change. Plus, the young economists to watch this decade....
Tasting menu: A walk through Queens
In a taste of our Christmas double issue, Jon Fasman takes a walk across Queens, New York City, and through America’s past, present and futu...
Tasting menu: The cover story
The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and deputy editor, Edward Carr, discuss the cover stories of 2018. From Donald Trump...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the December 15th 2018 edition
In this week’s issue, family offices are a new force in global finance – but their billionaire owners will soon face uncomfortable questions...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the December 8th 2018 edition
As anti-government protests engulf France, how a little humility could yet save Emmanuel Macron. Plus, why sensible people fall for online s...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the December 1st 2018 edition
China still relies on the outside world for its computer chips – how far should America go to maintain silicon supremacy? Also, democratisin...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the November 24th 2018 edition
In this week’s issue, why America is the exception to a global decline in suicides. Also, a glimpse of the future of flight and the extraord...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the November 17th 2018 edition
In this week’s issue, why modern capitalism needs a competition revolution. Also, how Brexit might change the face of British football and t...
Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the November 10th 2018 edition
After America's mid-term elections, how do the Democrats need to change their game to succeed in 2020? Also, a tour of the entrepreneurial c...