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Economist
a day ago
- Politics
- Economist
Losing Religion
Sandwiched between two non-descript office buildings in the centre of Washington, DC, sits a special church. Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church has hosted funerals for civil rights icons and opened its pews to American presidents. This year it made history again when it sued the Proud Boys, the far-right group that vandalised the church's property in December 2020. For generations the centuries-old traditional Black church has been the foundation for civil rights movements, from abolition to voting rights. But membership is in decline as younger Blacks switch allegiance to more mixed race, non-denominational churches. On The Weekend Intelligence Tamara Gilkes Borr asks what happens to America's fight for equality if the traditional Black church disappears?
Economist
21-06-2025
- Health
- Economist
Teeth, pain and Ukraine
It began with a simple root canal. As Economist correspondent Wendell Steavenson reported on the war in Ukraine her teeth were locked in their own war– a struggle with pain that defied medical explanation. Her attempt to discover its cause led her to visit 48 dentists in seven countries. On The Weekend Intelligence, Wendell explores how war rewrites the body's pain signals—and why an entire nation may be suffering in ways medicine is only starting to understand.
Economist
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Economist
Inside Taiwan's identity struggle
In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence our Senior China correspondent Alice Su, whose family has lived in Taiwan for generations, goes in search of Taiwanese identity. Both her own, and her country's. For four decades what it meant to be Taiwanese was defined by a brutal dictatorship and its relation to the mainland. In the four decades since, the people of Taiwan have been trying to work out who they are. If and when China makes a move on Taiwan, everything will hinge on whether Taiwanese people unite to defend themselves. What it means to be Taiwanese is not just personal but existential.
Economist
03-05-2025
- Business
- Economist
100 Days of DOGE
What happens when DOGE comes for your job and a team of twenty-something tech workers with extraordinary authority set about dismantling entire agencies? In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence Daniel Knowles, our Midwest correspondent, documents the fever dream of 100 days of DOGE.
