Editor’s Picks: February 22nd 2021

A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, America’s ambitious attempt to deal with climate change, why SPACs are a useful way to take firms public (08:52) and how data on inbred nobles support a leader-driven theory of history (15:16) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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