Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In New York, I'm John Fassman.

And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The nuclear arsenals of China, India, and Pakistan are growing.

Combined, they've got more nukes than Britain and France have stockpiled in Europe.

There's still no arms rights happening in Asia yet.

And the Rosetta Stone that allow the translation of hieroglyphics first ended up in French

hands then in British.

Now Egypt wants it back, even though it's technically Greek.

The restitution of artifacts is often messy because that's how history is.

But first.

Political junkies have been chewing over the upcoming midterm elections for months.

But for many Americans, Labor Day, which was celebrated this past Monday, marks the beginning

of campaign season.

A lot of those junkies had been predicting a red wave in this year's midterms.

History and precedent suggests that the party of the incumbent president is looking to

get clobbered basically in the midterm elections.

Given all of the polling the way it is now, it'll be one of the largest red waves in the

history of the United States.

But in recent weeks, many have begun to wonder whether that wave crested too early.

Two months ago, it looked like the Republicans were going to just sweep the midterms.

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