Under fire: Life in Kharkiv
The Intelligence from The Economist 
About this episode
For the past month, one of our editors has spoken daily with a young man in <a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/03/21/like-the-middle-ages-only-with-bombs-inside-the-sieges-of-mariupol-and-kharkiv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kharkiv</a>. Today he discusses his family's decision to leave their hometown for somewhere safer. <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/02/25/joe-biden-nominates-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-supreme-court" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ketanji Brown Jackson</a>, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, faced questioning this week from a Senate Committee. And we look back at <a href="https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/03/23/the-oscars-the-trickiest-gig-in-showbusiness" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oscars hosts</a> gone by. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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