Bench press: Trump’s Supreme Court pick

On gun rights, abortion policy and health care Amy Coney Barrett, the <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/09/27/donald-trump-nominates-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">seemingly unstoppable</a> successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will shift the court’s balance for decades. In China, the visually impaired are usually <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2020/08/13/only-five-blind-people-sat-chinas-university-entrance-exam-this-year?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shuffled off</a> to the massage industry; we meet blind students with greater ambitions. And tracing the origins of the <a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/08/28/mash-hits-the-land-that-spawned-the-supermarket-spud?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">boring supermarket spud</a>. 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>