The Intelligence: America’s culture wars brought to bears
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the American West, grizzly bears are spreading—and fights over protecting them under the Endangered Species Act test the frontiers between science and politics. Vaping is tremendous business in Britain, but the largely unregulated industry is now, curiously, asking for more oversight (10:57). And our language columnist explains our word of the year for 2023 (17:47).
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