Is China winning? The geopolitical consequences of covid-19
The world this week
Leaders
Pandemic geopolitics
Is China winning?
The geopolitical consequences of covid-19 will be subtle, but unfortunate
How to ease a covid-19 lockdown
Fumbling for the exit strategy
Overwhelmed by the crisis, most governments are ill-prepared for what comes next
Payouts in a pandemic
Which firms should pay dividends?
Dividends are a healthy part of capitalism. In the covid era, many firms should cut them
Two myths
America should prepare now for voting by mail in November’s election
Opposition to absentee voting is based on a pair of misconceptions
Letters
On Africa, covid-19, Mount Everest, Dutch swear words, podiums, exacting
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
The world after covid-19
Mark Carney on how the economy must yield to human values
Briefing
So many candidates, so little time
Can the world find a good covid-19 vaccine quickly enough?
And can it mass-produce it fairly if it does?
Other people’s antibodies
Some benefits of a covid vaccine could come early
Antibodies from recovered patients and biotech companies could help
Europe
From lockdown to smackdown
Nasty politics returns to Spain
Epidemocracy
A postal vote in Poland could entrench populists
Wildlife in Italy
Covid-19 has emboldened Italy’s fauna
Britain
Covid-19 deaths
Why Britain has so many covid-19 deaths
Agricultural labour
Not enough Britons want to work on farms
Care homes
The impact of covid-19 on care homes
Help for business
Why the scheme to help small business isn’t working
Magazines
Glitz-krieg
Media and covid-19
The newspaper industry is taking a battering
Deficit finance
Why the Bank of England is directly financing the deficit
Brexit negotiations
Why the government will not ask for a Brexit extension
Middle East & Africa
Don’t trust the internet
What South Africa learned from AIDS
A cash cow dries up
Covid stops many migrants sending money home
Covideo heaven
Arabs and Persians are battling it out—virtually
The kingdom’s quagmire
Saudi Arabia looks for an exit to the war in Yemen
Quackery in Iran
Desperate Iranians are getting bad medical advice
United States
Unequal protection
American inequality meets covid-19
The crime decline
Could America’s slump in crime be the beginning of something?
Lexington
The paradox of the pandemic
The Americas
Shoestring king
Mexico’s bazooka-shy president
Asia
Guerrillas with attitude
An ethnic militia with daring tactics is humiliating Myanmar’s army
Hunger strike
Asia’s workers can’t afford to stay at home
Infectious enthusiasm
A landslide for South Korea’s ruling party in parliamentary elections
China
Thanking big brother
China’s post-covid propaganda push
International
Business
Who’s lost their trunks?
The economic crisis will expose a decade’s worth of corporate fraud
General retail
Fashion retailers struggle to manage their inventories
Bartleby
Lessons from the front line
Finance & economics
Picking off the weak
How deep will downturns in rich countries be?
Dispatch from the front
Wall Street prepares for a wave of loan losses
Fighting with shadows
Why has China’s stimulus been so stingy?
Bucking the trend
The dollar’s dominance masks China’s rise in finance
Buttonwood
The case for emerging-market stocks
Science & technology
Disease transmission
Bats spread viruses
Combating loneliness
Acts of kindness prevent a downward spiral from solitude to loneliness
Culture
Sealed without a kiss
Brazil’s beloved telenovelas have sputtered to a halt
Exodus and odyssey
Why is this Haggadah different from all others?
The money tree
How to make a billion
Home Entertainment
Listen to Bertrand Russell, the English Voltaire
Home Entertainment
Make your own pasta
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Get used to it
How the internet has changed during lockdowns
Obituary
Mr Music Man