2026-01-15
20 分钟Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Every generation reckons the latest tech will be bad for kids.
Yet television didn't ruin them nor video games after that.
Social media, jury's out.
But AI is a different story.
It offers an unprecedentedly personalized upbringing but also perhaps a lonely one.
And as I'm sure many of you know it's National Bagel Day in America.
Our highly biased correspondent holds forth on their greatness.
Even a bad one he reckons is pretty good.
But how they came to be is a lot less clear.
First up though.
Today Venezuela's opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado
will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Back in 2024 she had been barred from running in the election.
Instead Edmundo Gonzalez ran in her place and with her backing.
He won.
But Nicolas Maduro a serial election thief claimed otherwise.
There was a chance that when America nabbed Mr Maduro a couple of weeks ago