The Economist
Audio content from The Economist magazine, including interviews with journalists and experts on world politics, business, finance, economics, science, technology, culture and the arts.
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Reza Aslan on Islam and America
Muslim communities are diverse and changing, says the American-Iranian writer. President Obamas olive branch may open a new dialogue
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Australia's carbon-emissions trading scheme
Plans for a carbon-emissions trading scheme may bring an early election
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Brazil's poor schools
Brazil's woeful schools, more than perhaps anything else, are what hold it back. They are improving--but too slowly
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The United States and Islam
After the chill of the Bush era, ties between American and Islam can only get better--but how much better?
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Central banks' exit strategies
The Federal Reserve weighs plans to unwind its unconventional stimulus
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Fraud in science
Scientists are not quite as honest as might be hoped
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Isaiah Berlin
Letters and impressions of a theorist of liberalism
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Mel Groves on unemployment in the UK
The chief executive of Job Centre Plus explains how his agency is tackling the rise in British unemployment
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Overhauling financial regulation
In America and Europe, new rules are already running into stiff resistance--mostly from regulators themselves
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Business in America
America's non-financial businesses are suffering. But they will survive the slump, says Robert Guest, The Economist's Washington correspondent
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North Korea's bomb
Bad behaviour from a repeat offender, but will the world agree to punish him?
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Oxford poets at war
Academic squabbles really are the bitterest
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Chinese firms' foreign investments
Chinese firms are finding new ways to buy access to foreign resources
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Cities and their deficits
Lay off 4,000 workers, or let the mayor cut the grass?
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Arvind Virmani on India's economy
India's new government will have to grapple with a slowing economy and growing budget deficit, says its chief economic advisor
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An end for Sri Lanka's Tigers
Sri Lanka's president must now end the ethnic grievances that underpinned the war, says our South Asia correspondent
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Jihadists attack Somalia
Somalia's new government may buckle under the latest wave of jihadist assaults
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Small businesses in Europe
Europe's smaller firms are coping fairly well with the recession, in spite of their banks' reluctance to increase lending
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Satellites and global health
Satellite data can suggest when and where epidemics will strike next
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The world's best banks
As the dust starts to settle, which banks deserve the most plaudits?
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