Editor's Picks: January 8th 2024

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  It's Monday, January the 8th, 2024.

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  This is Editor's Picks,

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  where we'll bring you three highlights from the current edition of The Economist,

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  read aloud, exclusively for subscribers.

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  I'm Idris Kahlun.

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  You'll normally find me co-hosting Checks and Balance,

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  our weekly podcast on American politics.

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  This week,

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  I wrote an in-depth analysis on Joe Biden's chances of being re-elected as America's president.

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  My reporting lays out why Biden is currently trailing Donald Trump in the polls,

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  but also why it's too late for his party to come up with a Plan B. Our cover leader this week,

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  and the first article we'll read for you on this podcast,

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  leaps off this reporting to ask, how did it come to this?

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  With 10 months until polling day,

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  we offer some advice on how the Democrats could still defeat Donald Trump,

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  but that will be no easy task.

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