Feds up: Trump orders troops on America’s streets

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Camouflaged personnel with no insignia, protesters bundled into unmarked vans: the <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/07/23/donald-trumps-divisive-method-culminates-in-portland?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">President Donald Trump's plan</a> to put federal officers into American cities is a worrying political ploy. Our annual <a href="https://www.economist.com/news/2020/07/15/the-big-mac-index?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Big Mac index</a> examines which currencies are over- and undervalued; we take a meaty look at what burgernomics reveals. And Indian scientists <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/07/18/stopping-pollution-with-pine-needles?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">simultaneously solve</a> a water problem while taming a fire problem. 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>