The Mangum rattlesnake Derby is held every year on the last weekend in April. There are vendors selling snake-related wares and there's a snake pit where Wrangler's handle live snakes. Some of that meat comes from the hunters out in the field. Marguerite Howell is an executive producer for the Economist's podcast team.
Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.
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