A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why—war or not—Vladimir Putin has miscalculated; how Justin Trudeau’s crackdown on protests in Canada could make things worse (9:25) and, in “The Power of the Dog”, the Western rides again (15:00)

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