2026-01-30
26 分钟The Economist.
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.
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Our obituaries editor looks back on the career of a man who came to be known as the Voice of India.
First up though.
America reached a very dangerous place this week.
Not just with the killing of Alex Preddy at the barrel of a federal agent's gun in Minneapolis,
just two weeks after Renee Good died the same way.
And not just with the administration's vilification of those citizens and the plain misdirection about who was at fault.
The peril was also, boringly yet essentially, in Congress.
Would a big funding package for the ICE immigration agency get through with all of this going on?
In the end, there was a subtle shift.
Democrats pushed back, threatened a government shutdown.
And won, temporarily at least.
The only leverage Americans have seen recently, the only institutional check on the administration's immigration agenda.