2025-11-14
23 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.
Is AI coming for white collar jobs?
That's something we've asked before.
But with the news that a number of big firms in America have made large cuts in the past month,
things are looking a little perilous.
And something as beautiful as the double helix just had to exist.
That was James Watson's thought as he sought to work out the structure of DNA.
He finally achieved it, but not without a lot of controversy throughout his career.
Our obituaries editor remembers him.
But first...
In the Middle East, the temporary has a way of becoming fixed.
Israel's occupation of the West Bank has endured for half a century.
The Palestinian Authority, which was meant to be a five-year interim body, turned 30 last year.
No wonder that a month after the ceasefire in Gaza,
the two million people who live there worry that their despair will also become permanent.
There's no shortage of plans for rebuilding Gaza.
Greg Carlstrom is our Middle East correspondent.