Alizée Jean-Baptiste

Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, maps Donald Trump’s grim choices in Iran as war risks widening. Alizée Jean-Baptiste, an Asia senior podcasts producer, reports on Thailand’s scandal-hit Buddhist monkhood, where money, status and hierarchy complicate reform. Plus, a look at gene-edited fruit and the strange future of seedless, stoneless produce.

Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, explains four fraught paths for US policy in the Iran war. Alizée Jean-Baptiste, Asia podcasts reporter, digs into Thailand’s monk scandals and why reform is so tricky. They also touch on gene-editing in fruit and how CRISPR could change what we eat.