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John Prideaux

@johnprideaux

Journalist at The Economist, views mine.
US editor & Exec director of podcasts
Checks and Balance pod: podfollow.com/1494037881/view

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"Western officials tell The Economist that this does in fact mark the start of the offensive, with attacks also under way on other parts of the front." Shashank Joshi Arkady Ostrovsky and Oliver Carroll on what we know so far. economist.com/europe/2023/06…

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Last night Brandi Carlile and Rufus Wainwright dedicated a song to a dear friend who suffered a huge brain injury in 2020 and is making a steady recovery. Not just any song, but flippin’ Hallelujah. If there was a Grammy for being a good person, BC would win that one too.

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This episode of our Drum Tower pod, about going to the beach in China, is particularly good. open.spotify.com/episode/31HP3D…

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On price-gouging: Dems bid up the price of Ubers so much after Biden's speech in Chicago last night that I was quoted $60 for a 10-minute ride 😬

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I’m probably not the first to point out the incongruity of the U.S. being ruled by a Peronist while Argentina is led by a libertarian.

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Our cover this week on the astonishing way that crypto has risen from a nonentity in Washington a decade ago, through a regulatory deep freeze under the Biden administration, to the ultimate swampy asset in American politics today.

Our cover this week on the astonishing way that crypto has risen from a nonentity in Washington a decade ago, through a regulatory deep freeze under the Biden administration, to the ultimate swampy asset in American politics today.