Jul 4th 2020

Retro or radical?

The world this week

Leaders

Joe Biden
Retro or radical?

Why Joe Biden’s instinctive caution makes real change possible

The pandemic
The way we live now

Covid-19 is yet to do its worst

Hong Kong
A safe harbour no more

China has imposed a draconian security law on Hong Kong. It buries the idea of one country, two systems

Investing in India
Inside game

The recent flurry of foreign money into India is not what it seems

The Nile
Dam bluster

Egypt and Ethiopia must learn to share the world’s longest river

Letters

Letters to the editor
On artificial intelligence, green investing, GDP, gardens, working from home

Briefing

Joe Biden
He persisted

A consummate moderate in his late 70s, Joe Biden has a good chance of becoming a president with an ambitious, activist policy platform

Britain

Producing a vaccine
Moonshot

Relations with China
Getting off the fence

The economy
V-sign

Infrastructure
Boris digs for victory

Lockdown in Leicester
Not again

Teaching history
War of the poses

Toy soldiers
The lead belt booms

Bagehot
Giving the bureaucrats a rocket

Europe

Russia
Parade’s end

Turkey
Osman and the snails

France
The president’s dilemmas

Ireland
A new world

Covid-19 and the Nordics
Borderline personalities

Charlemagne
Let expats vote

United States

The presidential election
Donald Trump’s uphill battle

State flags
Mississippi changes its colours

John Roberts
Hail to the chief

Capital punishment
Cruel, unusual and costly

The Democratic left
Gathering steam

Intelligence and the president
Pandering to the bear

Lexington
It’s messing with Texas

The Americas

Mexican-American relations
The two amigos

Colombia
Post-party town

Cuba
Neither mulas nor moolah

Bello
Ecuador’s anguish

Middle East & Africa

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Showdown on the Nile

Malawi’s new president
A lesson in democracy

Another sort of plague
Locusts at the gate

Sierra Leone
Guild of thieves

Facebook and autocrats
With friends like these

Music in the Arab world
Rap the casbah

Asia

The war in Afghanistan
Withdraw first, ask questions later

India and China
Hit them where it hurts us

India’s obsession with TikTok
Fifteen seconds of fame

Feeding Singapore
The rise of the rooftop farmer

Vietnam
Your loss, my grain

Banyan
A charged relationship

China

Hong Kong’s freedoms
The evening of its days

Popular culture
Star wars

Chaguan
The great unifier

International

The pandemic’s next stage
The new normal

The World If

If the Republicans pivoted on climate
The elephant’s U-turn

If water shortages destabilised China
Trickle-down policies

If climate activists turned to terrorism
Green blood

If carbon removal became the new Big Oil
Big Suck

If covid-19 devastated aviation
Peak plane

If technology tracked all carbon emissions
The rise of carbon surveillance

If mammoths were recreated
Doing the tundra quick-steppe

If nuclear power had taken off
The road not taken

Business

Business in India
All aboard

Meal-delivery wars
Appetite for destruction

Airlines and the climate
Setting a new CORSIA

The Facebook boycott
With a little help from its friends

Nissan
Turning down the volume

Logistics (1)
Seeking deliverance

Logistics (2)
Droning on

Bartleby
Keep it practical

Schumpeter
The legacy of Chesapeake

Finance & economics

Public finances
The debt toll

Banks and the recession
What if?

Trade finance
Collateral damage

Chinese banking
Xi sank your battleship

Property in America
The house wins

Buttonwood
Zero gravity

Free exchange
A Latin American tragedy

Science & technology

Hydrogen power
Another look in the toy box

Phylloxera
The root of the problem

Books & arts

Urban history
A night at the Cathay

American politics
Orange warning

Secrets and lies
Cherchez les femmes

Television drama
Creative destruction

Home Entertainment
Chekhov in Siberia

Home Entertainment
Hidden depths

Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Covid-19 and lockdowns
Thinking fast and slow

Obituary

Li Zhensheng
Facing it