Office politics: The fight over the future of work
The world this week
Leaders
A desperate despot’s dodgy deal
Will Putin save Lukashenko?
In exchange for Russian support, an autocrat prepares to sell out his country
Brexit and international law
Britain threatens to flout international law
Boris Johnson’s readiness to break a treaty as a negotiating tactic is both foolish and dangerous
Letters
On digital trade, Ferdinand Magellan, the centre-left, mental health, diplomacy, economics
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Europe
Erdogan thinks big
Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, takes to the world stage
Blamed for the virus
The number of migrants arriving in Italy is up again
“Understanding” Russia has limits
Angela Merkel is losing patience with Vladimir Putin
Les liaisons prétentieuses
Sex, lies and philosophy on the Paris left bank
Charlemagne
Last of the centre-lefties
Britain
Here we go again
Brexit negotiations hit a formidable new barrier
Away from the bustle
Covid-19 and the end of commuterland
Sandwich strategies
Empty city centres are a crisis for cafés—and also an opportunity
Lots of hot air
Extinction Rebellion shows how not to run a protest group
Middle East & Africa
Dreams of fields
The quest for secure property rights in Africa
Failing the test
Schools in Jordan struggle with covid-19 and jailed teachers
Next year in Jerusalem
Serbia and Kosovo awkwardly embrace Israel
United States
The boomers’ last stand
Younger Americans feel their voting weight
Rap on the block
Sotheby’s hip-hop auction
Our election model
Donald Trump could still stage a comeback (again)
The will of the...whatever
Political skulduggery in Missouri
Asia
Undo the locomotion
Japan’s rural railways are disappearing
They shot the smoking guns
Two Burmese soldiers confess to war crimes against the Rohingya
China
International
Covid-19 and beyond
The world needs a better World Health Organisation
Business
The Hastings doctrine
Can Reed Hastings preserve Netflix’s culture of innovation as it grows?
Strong medicine
Why drugmakers are telling Donald Trump to cool his heels
Creative destruction
How America’s war on Huawei may boost Chinese technology
Finance & economics
Techtonic shifts
Beware the power of retail investors
Money in the Banksy
How to bet on art and other baubles
Down but not out
How has trade survived covid-19?
Cyber heists
How to launder ill-gotten gains
Badwill hunting
Why are European banks merging?
Free exchange
Which is the best market model?
Schools brief
Putting on weight
Governments can borrow more than was once believed
Science & technology
Natural disasters
Wildfires will be more common in a warming world
Weather and climate change
How weird weather can span the world
Palaeontology
How the shark forgot his skeleton
Immunology
Some good news on covid-19
Armoured warfare
Tanks have rarely been more vulnerable
Culture
Lowering the drawbridge
Two books expound the virtues of open societies
White supremacy in America
“Life of a Klansman” brings the past out of the closet
Thicker than water
A chilling memoir of troubled parents
Memory lane
Roddy Doyle’s new novel is funny and moving
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Obituary
The mathematics of death