Seize the moment: The chance to flatten the climate curve
The world this week
Leaders
A new opportunity to tackle climate change
Countries should seize the moment to flatten the climate curve
The pandemic shows how hard it will be to decarbonise—and creates an opportunity
The next stage of covid-19
Lifting lockdowns: the when, why and how
They are blunt instruments that can cause immense harm. Time to be more discriminating
Semiconductors
America is determined to sink Huawei
A new escalation in the tech conflict illustrates the limits of American power
No bail-outs without representation
Malaysia needs a legitimate government to fight covid-19
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin must prove he has a majority
Big pharma is having a good crisis
Drug innovation is back in fashion
Big pharma is no longer the villain
Letters
On solitude, investors, electric cars, Yemen, Labour, Einstein, three points
Letters to the editor
Briefing
The other crisis
Can covid help flatten the climate curve?
Arriving at a time of change, the pandemic could bring forward the fossil-fuel peak
Never let a crisis go to waste
The pressure to make the post-covid rebound green
A matter of opportunities and costs
Fighting climate change
The world urgently needs to expand its use of carbon prices
But doing so could provoke another trade war
If a tree falls
Carbon offsetting is essential to tackling climate change
If the world is to achieve net-zero emissions, then offsets are part of the plan
Europe
Who will pay for the pandemic?
The Merkel-Macron plan to bail out Europe is surprisingly ambitious
Empty beaches
Will tourists come to sunny Spain this year?
Sami difference
Sweden’s reindeer-herding Sami take back control
Charlemagne
The wizards of Luxembourg
Britain
Grand houses
Britain’s palaces and stately homes are empty
The great land grab
Walkers and cyclists are using the covid-19 crisis to swipe road space
Unwinding the National Covid Service
Why the NHS will not be back to normal for a very long time
Not so burdensome
As debt soars, the cost of servicing it keeps falling
Middle East & Africa
Ahead of the covid curve
Egypt chose a looser lockdown. Its economy is still in crisis
A bizarre bazaar
Why Iran has the world’s best-performing stockmarket
A genocide suspect faces trial
Félicien Kabuga, Africa’s most wanted man, is arrested
No-frills education
Trust, slavery and the African School of Economics
United States
To hell with experts
How the world’s premier public-health agency was handcuffed
Attention deficit disorder
Whatever happened to Black Lives Matter?
Sunday slump
The virus is accelerating dechurching in America
Jesus is not his vaccine
Francis Collins on science and faith
A boog’s life
Why some protesters in America wear Hawaiian shirts
Lexington
Joe Biden’s good pandemic
The Americas
Asia
Lockdown and out
India’s economy has suffered even more than most
Muhyiddin’s mess
Malaysia’s shaky government dodges a no-confidence motion
Unscathed but scathing
Japan is not rallying around its prime minister
Titles all round
Afghanistan’s two rival presidents reach a deal
Barley barney and beef beef
China punishes Australia for promoting an inquiry into covid-19
Floating confinement
Why the Philippines is a magnet for idled cruise ships
China
International
The great reversal
Covid-19 is undoing years of progress in curbing global poverty
Business
Immaculate misconceptions
America’s latest salvo against Huawei is aimed at chipmaking in China
Elephants in the room
India Inc’s profits increasingly belong to a tiny clutch of companies
Bartleby
Zoomers, zeros and Gen Z
Finance & economics
Raid on the piggy banks
Sovereign-wealth funds face lean years
Trading places
A memo to candidates for the WTO’s next boss
All work and no play
Tracking the economic recovery
Borrower beware
Why interest rates are so high in Africa
Free exchange
Should the Fed cut rates below zero?
Schools brief
Not-so-slow burn
The world’s energy system must be transformed completely
Science & technology
To each according to his need
The risk of severe covid-19 is not uniform
Suffer the little children
Thoughts that the young are not much affected by SARS-CoV-2 look wrong
Solar’s new power
New solar cells extract more energy from sunshine
Culture
The lives of others
Diaries written in adversity can be a source of solace
The camera always lies
“No Filter” chronicles the rise of Instagram
Ice-cold cases
Investigating the mysterious appeal of Scandi noir
The ballad of Malcolm and Martin
A twin biography retells the story of the civil-rights movement
Home Entertainment
Confined in prison, Marco Polo roamed across the world
Home Entertainment
Trio sonatas are the ideal music for the lockdown
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Forecasting covid-19
Early projections of covid-19 in America underestimated its severity
Obituary
Gonna have some fun tonight