A house divided against itself: America simmers
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Political assassinations. Troops on city streets. National protests. We examine the edgy mood inside America through the lens of past periods of intense, violent partisanship. Our correspondent sees two motives for the visit to Greenland by Emmanuel Macron, France’s president: one aimed at Donald Trump and another at Europe’s self-conception. And what AI learned from scans of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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| 1:07.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence. I'm the economist. I'm Jason Palmer. And I'm Rosie Bloor. Every weekday, we provide a fresh |
| 1:15.2 | perspective on the event shaping your world. On his way to the G7 meeting in Canada, Francis President |
| 1:25.8 | Emmanuel Macron made a short stop in Greenland. |
| 1:28.9 | Our correspondent was there to hear him repeat a geopolitical message that he's been making alone for years. |
| 1:35.6 | At last, it's resonating. |
| 1:39.5 | And around 75 years ago, a shepherd discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in a desert cave. |
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