1. Lula’s ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality

2. Ground zero of Ukraine’s dam disaster – in pictures

3. Want to contribute to Ukraine’s war effort? In these games you can

4. How Kyiv fended off a Russian missile blitz in May

5. Donald Trump and due process

6. Richard Mosse documents the hidden war in the Brazilian Amazon

7. Death of a salesman: Silvio Berlusconi | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

8. Trustbusters should let Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard

9. Silvio Berlusconi: his scandals and his supporters never went away

10. Christian Californians may have a solution to America’s obesity

11. “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Leopoldstadt” triumphed at the Tony Awards

12. Tom Stoppard’s haunting new play about the Holocaust

13. The South is fast becoming America’s industrial heartland

14. Is the global housing slump over?

15. Sir Richard Barrons on the broader security considerations around Ukraine’s counter-offensive

16. India’s diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history

17. China’s influence in South-East Asia has grown. America’s has waned

18. Are cryptocurrencies securities?

19. Abominable showman: the rise of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

20. Gain, wait: Ukraine’s tentative push | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

21. In Mehran Tamadon’s new films, Iranians remember their torture

22. Ukraine’s counter-offensive marks its first gains

23. A Broadway musical updates “Some Like It Hot”

24. Silvio Berlusconi has died, aged 86

25. Is doing business in China becoming impossible for foreigners?

26. Britain leads the world in online gambling

27. Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results

28. Enjoy flexible benefits and lower prices | The Economist

29. The Iraqi militias are copying their overmighty cousins in Iran

30. The difficulties facing Britain’s covid-19 inquiry

31. China’s guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research

32. Latin America’s single mothers are being left behind

33. Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority

34. Eight books you are forbidden from reading

35. Artificial intelligence enters its industrial age

36. How grassroots schemes are helping England’s non-white cricketers

37. The fading charms of Britain’s historic cinemas

38. Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence

39. Boris Johnson strikes again

40. Amoral cities are flourishing in a turbulent geopolitical era

41. Botswana, an African success story, looks ever less exceptional

42. Why employee loyalty can be overrated

43. “Amongst the Ruins” explores the collapse of civilisations

44. A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third

45. The end of Western naivety about China

46. What TIM’s mega-spin-off reveals about Europe’s telecoms industry

47. German bosses are depressed

48. Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch

49. PwC has disgraced itself down under

50. Cricket’s best bowler is considered superfluous by his country

51. Can anyone beat Donald Trump to the Republican nomination?

52. Cobalt, a crucial battery material, is suddenly superabundant

53. Nigeria’s new president scraps the fuel subsidy

54. What to make of reports that Cuba will host a Chinese spy base

55. Can cities be saved from rising sea levels?

56. Donald Trump is in his most serious legal trouble yet

57. Who will succeed Shia Islam’s top man?

58. The exploded dam has flooded Kherson. Many are too exhausted to leave

59. Summer reads | The Economist

60. Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought

61. A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak

62. Ukraine’s assault in Zaporizhia may be the focus of its offensive

63. A flawed argument for central-bank digital currencies

64. Should you send your children to private school?

65. Regulators put the future of America’s crypto industry in doubt

66. Tension in Senegal is set to persist

67. Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air

68. Why does London have so much sexually transmitted disease?

69. Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?

70. British politics is littered with fake taboos

71. After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge

72. Charged up: Trump’s latest indictment | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

73. America might see a new constitutional convention in a few years

74. We’re hiring a Story Editor (Executive Producer)

75. The struggle to kill King Coal

76. Trump’s latest indictment is the most serious yet. Can he still run for president?

77. Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history

78. Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin’s real mother

79. Climate change grabs New York by the throat

80. Japan’s stockmarket rally may disappoint investors

81. Nvidia’s trillion-dollar bet

82. KAL’s cartoon | Jun 10th 2023 Edition

83. A raptor’s mystique inspires “What an Owl Knows”

84. California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves

85. Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system

86. Japan offers Ukraine a lesson in reconstruction

87. After the dam collapse, Russian-controlled areas have been abandoned

88. Montana, climate-change pioneer

89. Inside the armed Burmese resistance

90. Leïla Slimani’s new novel ranges from France to Morocco

91. Georgia, the Peach State, has no peach crop this year

92. Two alarming books on the power of America’s Supreme Court

93. California’s reparations scheme is bad policy and worse politics

94. Gestures are a subtle and vital form of communication

95. Who is Oleksandr Syrsky, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces?

96. The Supreme Court says Alabama’s electoral map is discriminatory

97. A museum in Albania aims to commemorate a painful past

98. Pretending that everything is under control in Russia

99. A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever

100. Mick Ryan assesses Ukraine’s counter-offensive

101. A huge Norwegian phosphate rock find is a boon for Europe

102. Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens

103. Why does China want Uyghurs overseas to be silent?

104. Albania is no longer a bad Balkan joke

105. Wanted: a Britain economics writer

106. No Khan do: Pakistan’s meddling army | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

107. How to get rich from commodities

108. Pakistan’s meddling army is trying to silence Imran Khan

109. Smoke blackens the air in America’s north-east

110. Ukraine strikes back

111. Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing Europe

112. When will China’s GDP overtake America’s?

113. The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch enemy

114. Life in Kherson after the Kakhovka dam’s collapse

115. How the breach of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam could affect a nuclear plant

116. Kim Darroch on the “special relationship” between America and Britain

117. Ukraine’s counter-offensive is gathering pace

118. Prince Harry complains again, this time in court

119. Rise of the robots

120. Not born yesterday: the world’s ageing population | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

121. A smaller, older population threatens economic growth

122. Apple’s Vision Pro is an incredible machine. Now to find out what it is for

123. Chinese policemen are gaslighting Uyghurs in exile

124. How to ensure Vladimir Putin suffers a strategic defeat

125. Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law

126. Columbia is the latest university caught in a rankings scandal

127. The geopolitical stakes of Ukraine’s counter-offensive

128. Despite a crash, Indian railways have an impressive safety record

129. Apple’s Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it?

130. The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie

131. Dam and blast: Ukraine launches counter-offensive | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

132. Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

133. Ukraine’s counter-offensive has begun, and it’s not what the West expected

134. Pakistan’s perma-crisis

135. China is acutely vulnerable to rising sea levels

136. Why is there trouble in Kosovo again?

137. Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space

138. Children’s centres in Britain are crammed again

139. A vast Ukrainian cemetery awaits the casualties of the counter-offensive

140. Drone cops are coming for small-town America

141. Trouble in Shangri-La: Sino-American tensions escalate | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

142. Why won’t China and America just talk? Fallout from the Shangri-La Dialogue

143. Ukraine’s counter-offensive appears to have begun

144. We’re hiring a Story Editor

145. President Erdogan shifts towards sane economics

146. American basketball is entering a more competitive era

147. Who is keeping coal alive?

148. Republicans intensify their assault on city governments

149. Turkey’s President Erdogan shifts towards sane economics

150. Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars

151. How India is using digital technology to project power

152. Britons still do like to be beside the seaside

153. Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel follows lovers in crumbling East Germany

154. Can British seaweed farms bloom?

155. A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again

156. Chief executives cannot shut up about AI

157. Investors go back into battle with rising interest rates

158. What does the perfect carbon price look like?

159. Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common around the Mediterranean

160. America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies

161. The strange tale of a prominent North Korean defector

162. Britain’s new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy

163. Da Wei on how America and China can get along better

164. Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful

165. Why China’s government might struggle to revive its economy

166. Why does America have a debt limit?

167. America’s states are pursuing their own foreign policies

168. Why legal writing is so awful

169. Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise

170. Can downtown densification rescue Cleveland?

171. Narendra Modi is rebuilding New Delhi

172. Turkey’s bizarre economic experiment enters a new phase

173. The future of fish farming is on land

174. The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea

175. Will drone cops make American policing safer or just more intrusive?

176. Britain is falling behind in clinical trials of medicines

177. In a new exhibition, Hannah Gadsby takes aim at Pablo Picasso

178. How donuts fuelled the American Dream

179. League of her own: Sheikh Hasina’s grip on Bangladesh | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

180. How Hong Kong is snuffing out memories of Tiananmen Square

181. There is more than one way to make green steel

182. KAL’s cartoon | Jun 3rd 2023 Edition

183. Sheikh Hasina’s iron grip on Bangladesh may yet strangle its laudable progress

184. China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions

185. Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory

186. Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws

187. New research helps explain why China’s low birth rates are stuck

188. Kicking the debt addiction

189. After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland’s politics is suddenly in flux

190. Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy

191. Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour

192. How to beat desk rage

193. Business families in the Gulf need modern laws of inheritance

194. What to read to understand imperialism and colonialism

195. Go First’s insolvency tests India’s bankruptcy regime

196. Is the luxury sector recession-proof?

197. Immigrants are changing Central Texas barbecue for the better

198. Iran puts its nuclear programme beyond the reach of American bombs

199. Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill is now law

200. Dealmaking has slowed—except among dealmakers

201. Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocrat

202. Imran Khan loses his battle with Pakistan’s army

203. Ramesses the Great was a superb self-promoter

204. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been subject to historical revisionism

205. Ukraine gets its F-16s

206. Europe makes a show of unity with Ukraine and other neighbours

207. Aleksander Kulisiewicz preserved the music of the Nazi camps

208. Dara Massicot believes that Russia faces twin personnel crises in its armed forces

209. The AI boom has turbocharged Nvidia’s fortunes. Can it hold its position?

210. Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun

211. On pain of death: Uganda’s anti-LGBT law | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

212. Uganda’s vicious anti-LGBT law reflects foreign influences—but not ones the country’s homophobes decry

213. The pitfalls of loving your job a little too much

214. Are whistleblowers good or bad? “Reality” lets viewers decide

215. Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences

216. America avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell

217. Scotland has been on a ten-year holiday from reality

218. The world’s oil-price benchmark is being radically reformed

219. China’s young want to work. For the government.

220. Who will be Taiwan’s next president?

221. Cheap, single-dose HPV vaccines could save millions of lives

222. What next for Sudan’s most notorious rebel leader, known as Hemedti?

223. How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news

224. How should Britain reform rape-trial laws?

225. What if generative AI destroys biometric security?

226. What does “de-risking” trade with China mean?

227. Why is North Korea trying to launch a satellite?

228. The second world war turned Okinawa into a graveyard. Now it’s in China’s sights

229. A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

230. Debtors’ prism: mounting crises of Africa’s loans | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

231. The roots of, and routes out of, Africa’s mounting debt crises

232. Can the debt-ceiling deal hold?

233. Health care is already benefiting from VR

234. Poland’s government may seek to bar opponents from politics

235. Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy

236. South Korea’s housing crunch offers a warning for other countries

237. The five best books for understanding Silicon Valley’s history

238. It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less

239. Iran’s religious leaders have nuclear bombs “on demand”

240. Poland’s government creates a commission with the power to bar people from politics

241. How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?

242. “Anatomy of a Fall”, a riveting whodunnit, wins at Cannes

243. Cash out: the digital-payments revolution | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

244. Why are China’s LGBT support groups closing down?

245. Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline

246. Digital payments are already reshaping economies

247. Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals

248. The speech police are coming for social media

249. Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush

250. Spain’s prime minister gambles on a snap general election

251. Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business

252. The comic opera of England

253. Erdogan’s presidential win in Turkey shows just how much power he already had

254. A new wave of mass migration has begun

255. Why activist investors are going to have a busy year

256. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president

257. House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden’s activities to Joe

258. Why the Communist Party fears gay rights

259. Pickleball and padel are challenging tennis’s supremacy

260. America’s debt-ceiling deal means it should now avoid Armageddon

261. Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools

262. Japan’s hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants

263. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favoured to win Turkey’s presidential election

264. Female presidents, third-party hopefuls, how the show gets made: answers to listeners’ queries

265. Meet the hype-man for Binyamin Netanyahu’s controversial reforms

266. British voters want more immigrants but less immigration

267. China’s state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares

268. China and Russia compete for Central Asia’s favour

269. Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city

270. What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth

271. In Javier Marías’s final novel, an agent confronts his conscience

272. Britain’s semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in

273. Ciaran Martin argues that cyberspace is finally, if unevenly, getting safer

274. Davy Chou is casting a spotlight on Cambodian cinema

275. Parenting can be bad for the kids.

276. Rome fell. Will the modern-day West follow suit?

277. Who will be Iran’s next leader?

278. Japan’s ageing society is finding creative ways to dispose of its dead

279. Who are the militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region?

280. Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape

281. We’re hiring a new Culture correspondent

282. Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective

283. August Wilson was and remains a bard of black life in America

284. As it spreads across the world, who owns English?

285. Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing

286. How Donald Trump’s trials and the Republican primary will intersect

287. The push to bring insulin prices down in America

288. Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe

289. African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them

290. “The Perfection Trap” decries what it calls a “hidden epidemic”

291. Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel

292. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to win Turkey’s presidential election

293. Why America has so many banks

294. To survive, Britain’s NHS must stop fixating on hospital care

295. What the crown jewels reveal about Britain’s colonial past

296. Clinical trials are too slow and too costly—here is how to fix them

297. Women take over France’s powerful trade unions

298. Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own

299. Russian lessons: new and improved war tactics | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

300. Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro’s influence