Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

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

For most of the war in Ukraine, Russia didn't formally have a battlefield figurehead leading

the operation.

Now they do, and he's by all accounts, a nasty piece of work.

We look at the past and the predilections of the guy that colleagues call General Armageddon.

And sometimes really good science looks like scientists just having fun.

We learn about a project to teach you dishful of brain cells how to play the video game

Paul.

But the experiment can teach the experimenters quite a bit too.

Just up though.

In a car park in Akron, Ohio on a chilly Sunday evening, a few hundred people gathered

for a rally of democratic candidates.

Headlining were Amelia Sykes running for the house.

And Tim Ryan running for the Senate.

I believe that the issue of freedom is on the ballot.

And what we have seen in the last three months come from the Supreme Court is an absolute

violation of the freedom of women in the United States of America.

When my colleagues Stevie Hertz asked attendees what concerns they had going into the election,

one issue came up again and again.

And what are the issues that have taken place in seeing this election?

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