President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign had the environment front and centre. We analyse his pledges—and his prospects for implementing them. As the video-gaming industry releases its next round of consoles, it is eyeing a far larger prize: high-end gaming with no console at all. And the red poppy of Remembrance Day turns into something of an armistice race in Britain. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ordered county election boards in Pennsylvania to comply with guidance requiring them to keep ballots received after 8 p.m. Election Day "in a safe, secure, and sealed container separate from other voted ballots,” as Newsweek and other outlets reported Friday. How could Alito's directive affect returns for the presidential election?
Additionally, The Associated Press reported that 24 Wisconsin counties had completed canvassing of election results as of Monday morning, but that "all 72 must be in before President Donald Trump could call for a recount.” How long will that take, and will other states besides Georgia recount?
Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, joins the podcast to discuss.
We also cover these stories:
The Supreme Court hears arguments about ending Obamacare, but some conservative justices apparently don't see a need for the health care law to be repealed in its entirety.
Attorney General William Barr announces that prosecutors at the Justice Department can look into evidence of voting irregularities.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pledges that he will not support packing the Supreme Court with more justices or ending the Senate filibuster.
In 1990, PepsiCo made a deal with the Soviet Union for submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer. It was the largest agreement ever made between an American company and the USSR. But it wasn’t Pepsi’s first deal with the Soviets. For decades, one executive had been flying to the Soviet Union to meet foreign trade ministers, politicians, and regular Russians. At the height of the Cold War, he was determined to make a deal and bring two countries locked in a bitter conflict together.
As COVID-19 cases spiral to unseen levels in the United States, the Trump administration and its allies continue attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which provides health care to more than 20 million Americans. What will the Supreme Court say to their arguments this time? Plus, infectious disease expert Dr. Mia Taormina answers listener questions about the coronavirus.
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The news of this election and who controls what levers of federal power is a mixed bag, but divided government might be one bright spot for libertarians. Political strategist Liz Mair makes her case.
President Trump may be on his way out, but Republicans will have to rely on his voters to hold power in the Senate. If Democrats win two runoff elections in Georgia on January 5, they will win a narrow Senate majority.
Our main discussion: Stan Druckenmiller, Bitcoin Bull.
A few months ago, Stan Druckenmiller told CNBC that he could imagine inflation of 5%–10%. Yesterday, he returned to the network to discuss why bitcoin had captured his attention as a potential hedge.
Since the dawn of time, humans have looked up at the night sky to watch the stars.
...and then nothing happened for hundreds of thousands of years until a guy by the name of Galileo Galilei point a telescope at the stars and saw a bunch of stuff that everyone had missed.
Since then, we’ve increased the size of our telescopes so we can see more and more, further and further away.
Learn more about the ever-increasing size of astronomical telescopes on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
