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The Intelligence from The Economist

It’s his party: American primaries

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Five American states held primary elections yesterday. The most important were in Pennsylvania, where a Trump-backed candidate won the Republican gubernatorial primary. The Republican senate race remains too close to call. Wide-area motion imaging is a surveillance technique developed by the military in Iraq but now creeping into the civilian world. And why war in Ukraine is raising the price of berries in Britain. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

0:06.7

In New York, I'm John Fassman.

0:09.2

And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

0:11.3

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

0:18.1

Eyes in the skies increasingly have a new tool at their disposal.

0:21.5

It's called Wide Area Motion Imaging, and it's a better way to look for changes on the

0:25.3

ground.

0:26.7

We ask how to sift through the slew of data it produces, and what threats to privacy

0:30.8

it presents.

0:34.2

And food prices are going up all over, but there's a spike coming for a particular snack

0:39.2

in Britain.

0:40.4

Berries.

0:41.4

We ask why the war in Ukraine will have such a pointed effect on the strawberries and

0:45.8

cream industrial complex.

0:56.0

We ask why the war in the West up though.

1:03.4

Yesterday, primary voters in five states went to the polls.

1:07.8

In Idaho and Western North Carolina, the establishment had a good night.

1:13.0

Idaho's incumbent governor Doug Little, fended off a challenge from a far-right insurgent

1:17.6

backed by Donald Trump.

1:19.5

And in North Carolina, Madison Caulforn, a young congressman who called Ukrainian President

1:24.0

Philotomir Zelensky a thug, and who claimed without evidence to have been invited to

1:28.3

orgies by his colleagues, lost to an establishment-backed state senator, despite having Donald

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