Podcasts
Babbage
Are microplastics harming your health?
Our podcast on science and technology. Tiny fragments of plastic are everywhere. Should you be worried?
Drum Tower
How Chinese hacking got so good
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, the country’s rise as a global cyber-power
The Intelligence
What will decide the kind of pope the church gets next?
Also on the daily podcast: a grim find adds to Mexico’s disappearances and kids go nuts at “A Minecraft Movie”
The Intelligence
Pope Francis’s main aim was to make the church merciful
Also on the daily podcast: the tasty business of high-protein snacks, and the best and worst ways to get employees to resign
The Intelligence
The UAE thinks its destabilising meddling abroad helps it. Not so
Also on the daily podcast: what is behind Japan’s rice crisis and a linguistic look at the pronouns of the culture wars
Checks and Balance
Have tariffs weakened Trump’s appetite for political risk?
Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we gauge President Trump’s appetite for political risk after market shocks forced him to suspend most of his tariffs
The Intelligence
How to capture the transformative gene-editing power of CRISPR
Also on the daily podcast: the reasons behind Asia’s love affair with gold and New Zealand’s emigration wave
Money Talks
The man who has the ear of Silicon Valley
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, a conversation with tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel about the future of AI
The Intelligence
A difference in style is exacerbating US-China tensions
Also on the daily podcast: Spain’s morgues show the grim costs of illegal migration and pinball makes a comeback
Editor’s picks
The classes teaching students how to be grown-ups
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
Babbage
Which foods should you avoid?
Our podcast on science and technology. Our “Well informed” series considers whether butter, ultra-processed foods and red meat are bad for your health