Getting their vax up: America’s vaccine mandates

<p>President Joe Biden’s requirements for employers to insist on vaccinations are a bold move amid flatlining inoculation rates. But <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/09/10/will-joe-bidens-vaccine-mandates-work?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">will they work</a>? For decades the world’s cities seemed invincible, but the pandemic has hastened and hardened <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/the-new-economics-of-global-cities/21804271?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a shift</a> in urban demographics and economics. And an ancient Finnish burial site <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/an-intriguing-reinterpretation-of-an-ancient-grave/21803297?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">scrambles</a> notions of gender roles in the distant past.</p><p>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></p> <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>