The Economist
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- Indexed videos, last 90 days
- 118
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- ~4.2M subscribers
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 3, 2026
Latest videos
The surprising ally of American Christian nationalists | The Economist (opens the original)
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Christian nationalism is on the rise in America—and it has a surprising ally in Britain. Georgia Banjo, The Economist’s Britain correspondent, has been following the story of Tommy Robinson, a football hooligan turned anti-Muslim activist, for a new three-part podcast series from The Economist. Click the link below to listen to Georgia’s investigation, including how Robinson’s disturbing worldview has spread from the fringes of English politics to Washington, DC. #usa #uk #politics Listen to the
Can you spot AI writing? | The Economist (opens the original)
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It's getting harder to spot AI writing. So The Economist built a model which analyses the styles of different LLMs, to identify the clues that might reveal if the author is human or machine. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hlw4Ll Subscribe to The Economist: https://econ.st/3Mia0pz Download The Economist app: https://econ.st/4qdVVaA Follow us on X: https://x.com/TheEconomist Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeconomist Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist The
EU’s top diplomat on Russia’s increasing attacks on Europe | The Economist (opens the original)
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Russia is stepping up its attacks on European countries, testing how far it can go. Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign-policy chief, argues that this reflects weakness rather than strength. “The threat is real, the threat is serious,” she tells David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Whether the threat materialises depends on how Europe responds. The Economist News Current Affairs Europe Russia Ukraine War
Did America ever have a plan for the Middle East? | The Economist (opens the original)
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America has pulled out of Syria, is withdrawing from Iraq and is thinning its presence in the Gulf. Our top editors ask why America has been so entangled in the region for so long, why Washington has not had a coherent approach to the Middle East for decades and whether it will step back after the war with Iran. #America #MiddleEast #Iran #Trump #Israel 00:00 - Why has America been so involved in the Middle East? 02:34 - Is America really withdrawing? 04:18 - How stable is Iran’s regime? 06:03 -
Should investors worry about Nvidia’s “circular financing"? | The Economist (opens the original)
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Should investors be worried about Nvidia’s “circular financing”? The company’s financial commitments can look terrifying. But as Shailesh Chitnis, The Economist’s global business writer, explains, Nvidia is walking a fine line between enabling demand and artificially creating it. Read how Jensen Huang became the AI industry’s Taylor Swift: bit.ly/4AzhQ2l Subscribe to The Economist: https://econ.st/3Mia0pz Download The Economist app: https://econ.st/4qdVVaA Follow us on X: https://x.com/TheEconom
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