Today on “The Intelligence”: a portrait of the American electorate, the cost of leaving Gaza, and reflecting on the life of Rose Dugdale econ.st/44cXn3P

♦️ Mike Johnson, the embattled House speaker, wants a Trump bump.

♦️ O.J. Simpson’s polarising legacy.

♦️ Joe Biden tries to woo black voters.

Follow the latest in American politics: econ.st/4av9uvn 👇

On this week’s “Money Talks” podcast, Alice Fulwood, Mike Bird and Tom Lee-Devlin ask where the field of behavioural economics is heading next. Listen now: econ.st/3JcEGDA 🎧

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are close to tied in national polls (Trump is doing better than that in the swing states). Overall, compared with 2020, there has been a shift of two percentage points in the Republican’s favour.

The change has two sources econ.st/43ViFmc 👇

Having been thrashed by the opposition in parliamentary elections, President Yoon Suk Yeol will not be able to pass any meaningful reforms unless he can reach across the aisle. That seems unlikely econ.st/43WmCqB 👇

In recent decades there has been a substantial shift in global values—and an extraordinary one. Explore our interactive to discover what it is econ.st/43PxKFK 👇

America is projected to run a budget deficit of more than 7% of GDP this year—a level unheard of outside recession and wartime. And it is not the only spendthrift country. Two factors explain the splurge econ.st/4arFIaL 👇

Only about 360 North Atlantic right whales remain. Three have died since the start of March. They, and other whale populations worldwide, are dying because of human activity econ.st/3Jllq6E 👇

This week on our “Drum Tower” podcast, Zanny Minton Beddoes joins David Rennie 任大伟 to discuss Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to revive China’s economy. Listen now: econ.st/49tOVxT 🎧

My piece for ⁦⁦⁩⁦The Economist⁩ on a topic dear to my sleep-deprived heart — the rise of the flat white & how Australia got so good at making coffee:

economist.com/culture/2024/0… from The Economist

Asia lacks an equivalent to NATO, which binds nations into a mutual defence pact. Under President Joe Biden, America has sought to foster links between them econ.st/3PXrrdx 👇

Over two-­thirds of Britons support changing the law to let someone help in the suicide of a person with a terminal illness. They are right—the question is how radical to be econ.st/3xz1fj8 👇

Termites raise skyscraping nests; honeybees fashion mesmerisingly geometric combs. The true master builders of the insect world, however, are the hundreds of species of stingless bee econ.st/4aODEJE 🐝

Transgender people should always be treated with respect and kindness, and adults should be free to make their own decisions about their bodies. But it is the responsibility of medical authorities to offer treatments based on solid evidence econ.st/3TWZfsu 👇

Congo brings back the death penalty econ.st/49wGQbR

For the past year, Russia has been stepping up its use of glide bombs. Both their size and the rate at which they are launched have increased sharply. For now, Ukraine has no answer to it econ.st/49AYpaJ 👇

Russia’s commanders were ill-prepared for the losses their forces would suffer. Many soldiers have been hastily buried in unmarked graves or incinerated in grisly pits and mobile crematoriums. Hundreds more bodies have simply been abandoned econ.st/3Ufri7K 👇

The greatest threat to Scottish wildcats is not that they will be destroyed by fights with wolves or hunters. It is that they will be seduced by the amorous approaches of domestic pets econ.st/3VUrI4H 👇

“When you consider that this is the most biodiverse system in the ocean, and maybe on the planet, it’s a tremendous loss.”

Marine biologists like Joanie Kleypas are hoping innovative new strategies can help protect coral reefs. Find out how on “Babbage” econ.st/43WfOcT 🎧

What is sometimes ascribed to a bias towards the Conservatives in Britain’s media is often simply a bias towards power. A competent government can bend political reality to its will. For Rishi Sunak, however, that power has faded econ.st/3UbHN4J 👇