Painting the red towns: covid-19 in America

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Painting the red towns: covid-19 in America
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:21:57
• Published: 2020-06-18 12:02

Coronavirus cases are easing in Democrat-held jurisdictions and rising in Republican-held areas. What is behind the shift, and what will it mean for President Donald Trump? Ireland at last has a coalition-government plan—upending a nearly century-old rivalry in order to keep the Irish-nationalist party Sinn Fein out of power. And a nine-year-old hopes to become the world’s youngest-ever chess grandmaster.

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