Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host Jason Palmer.

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

A congressional commission has had a look at how well America is defending itself against hackers,

particularly the state-sponsored kind.

The short answer, not very well.

We take a look at the changing nature of cyber attacks and of cyber defense.

And imagine a future in which the pandemic is in the past.

How will it be remembered commemorated?

We examine what museums are doing now to capture and depict this historic period.

But first...

America is racked by its most widespread sustained unrest in more than half a century.

A week ago Derek Chavin, then an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department,

knelt on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes as he pleaded that he could not breathe.

Mr. Floyd's death has unleashed a simmering anger across the country.

In at least 75 cities, protests have ignited over the past several days,

both demonstrations and the police response have been growing steadily more violent.

Governors in at least 11 states have called in the National Guard.

The unrest reached as far as the White House, prompting the Secret Service to sequester President Trump underground.

Minnesota's governor Tim Walsh said that calming protests was merely the start of reckoning.

If we do not get to that systemic problem, eventually this will get us back to a point that led to our communities on fire,

our security and safety in question.

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