A house divided against itself: America simmers
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 24 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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| 0:00.0 | The Economist |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm the economist. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:16.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 0:20.0 | On his way we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 0:30.6 | On his way to the G7 meeting in Canada, France's president Emmanuel Macron made a short stop in Greenland. |
| 0:37.4 | Our correspondent was there to hear him repeat a geopolitical message that he's been making alone for years. At last, it's resonating. |
| 0:41.7 | And around 75 years ago, a shepherd discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in a desert cave. Though |
| 0:48.0 | scholars have poured over these extraordinary documents, they've struggled to work out exactly |
| 0:52.2 | how old they are. Now, technology is coming to their aid. |
| 0:57.0 | But first... |
| 1:06.0 | Beltar stocked his victims like prey. |
| 1:18.2 | He went to their homes, held them out as a police officer, and shot them in cold blood. |
| 1:29.4 | After a two-day manhunt in Minnesota, Vance Bolter was found and charged with murder this week. He allegedly killed Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state representative, and her husband. He's also charged with the |
| 1:35.1 | attempted murder of another Democratic lawmaker and his wife. Mr. Bolter had far wider plans. |
| 1:42.1 | Police found his list of 45 state and federal officials. |
| 1:47.1 | This kind of lone wolf partisan violence is all too common in America's historical record. |
| 1:53.8 | But consider also, in the same weekend, the largest protests in the country in years. |
| 1:58.9 | No kids. No tyrants. We will not be silenced. No kings, no tyrants. |
| 2:01.4 | We will not be silent. |
| 2:03.1 | No silence. |
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