• First not past the post: Germany’s chancellor shocker

  • May 6 2025
  • Duración: 22 m
  • Podcast

First not past the post: Germany’s chancellor shocker

  • Resumen

  • In a post-war first, Germany’s first round of parliamentary voting for a chancellor did not produce one. We ask why members of Friedrich Merz’s coalition turned on him, and what happens next. Daring raids on scam compounds in Myanmar freed many slave-labour scammers—but thousands remain trapped there (9:42). And diving into the data that show young Americans are getting (slightly) happier (16:23).


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