Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

Burkina Faso is a small, landlocked, West African country, but this week's military

coup has big implications. Across the region, battles against jihadism aren't going well,

and governments being overthrown just makes things easier for the insurgents.

And the capital of America used to be Philadelphia. I still get Nigeria's wrong, it used to

be Legos, but now it's Aboujah. Now we'll all have to learn a new one. Indonesia's capital

is moving, and as elsewhere, that brings problems along with opportunities.

But first, Justice Stephen Breyer is expected to formally announce his retirement from America's

Supreme Court later today. A member of the Court's liberal wing, the 83-year-old Justice,

was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

I asked the Senate to consider and to promptly confirm the nomination of Justice Stephen

Breyer as the 108th Justice of the Supreme Court.

His confirmation hearings were presided over by then-Senator Joseph Biden.

Now, President Biden will have the opportunity to be the first Democrat since 2010 to put

justice on the court. In one sense, his nomination will change little. A liberal will replace a liberal.

But on the campaign trail, he promised to nominate a black woman for the first time ever.

I committed that if I'm elected president, I have an opportunity to appoint someone to

the courts. I'll appoint the first black woman to the courts. It's required.

Yesterday, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki confirmed that his plans remained unchanged.

The president has stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating black women to

the Supreme Court and certainly stands by that.

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