But who’s counting? Voting rights in America

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Democrats will spend the week battling for a tightening of laws on casting votes; that will <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/joe-bidens-voting-rights-push-is-futile-and-misguided/21807230?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">overshadow</a> Republicans’ worrying push into how those votes are counted and certified. Earthquakes remain damnably unpredictable, but <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/predicting-earthquakes-is-not-possible-yet/21807129?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">new research</a> suggests a route to early-warning systems. And why hammams, the declining bathhouses of the Arab world, will <a href="https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2022/01/01/covid-19-has-imperilled-the-hammams-of-north-africa-and-the-levant?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cling on</a> despite even the challenge of covid-19. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of <em>The Economist</em>, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <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>