What started as a small protest about conditions of a school and of schooling has mushroomed, and tapped into national anxieties that may prove hard to tame. In the context of the “Cornell 7” case we examine Title IX, the statute that should protect students—but that is failing. And how peddling superstitions to financiers is big business in India.

Guests and host:

• Sophie Pedder, Paris bureau chief
• Stevie Hertz, US policy correspondent
• Abhishek Kumar, India writer
• Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:

• France protests, French politics
• Cornell 7, Title IX, sexual assault
• India, finance, astrology, superstition

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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is gambling that anger about housing might solidify his mandate in a snap poll. Most probably it will instead add to the rightward shift in European politics. America’s beef prices have never been higher, so why is it that the meatpackers have it so tough? And the battery technology to improve medical diagnostics you can swallow.

Listen to our episode of “Babbage” on edible electronics here.

Guests and host:

• Michael Reid, Spain correspondent and writer at large
• Bella King, news editor
• David Adam, science writer
• Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
• Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:

• Spanish politics, housing crisis, Pedro Sánchez
• America’s meat industry, meatpackers
• medical diagnostics, edible electronics, battery technology

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Flávio Bolsonaro, populist-right son of the imprisoned coup architect Jair, received the most votes in the presidential first round. We ask why Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the incumbent, fell behind—and what is at stake when they go head-to-head. We examine Americans’ growing anger at automatic number-plate-reading cameras. And the demanding but lucrative business of nannying the children of the super-rich.

Guests and host:

• Ana Lankes, Brazil bureau chief
• Hollie Berman, news editor
• Alice Fulwood, US business editor
• Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
• Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:

• Brazilian election, Lula, Bolsonaro, populist-right politics
• Flock cameras, American law enforcement, privacy, surveillance
• childcare, plutocrats

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