Description:

Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Big tech: Big tech’s $2trn bull run Student debt: Getting the maths right The Bundesbank and the ECB: Couples therapy Britain’s legal system: Boris v the judges Climate philanthropy: The great Bezos giveaway Letters to the editor: On Clayton Christensen, Bernie Sanders, puberty blockers, private equity, police, China, sad songs The Philippines: Still the people’s choice South Carolina’s Democratic primary: Twilight of the moderates The Democratic debate: Mike drop Presidential approval ratings: A bogus bump Peter Hotez, vaccine campaigner: Anger in a time of autism Boy Scouts of America enters Chapter 11: Scout’s (dis)honour Medicine and the law: Kidney failure Gentrification in Washington, DC: A no Go-Go area Lexington: The other war on migrants Uruguay’s next president: Changing the guard Pipeline protests: Shut down Canada Japan’s economy: Typhoon, pestilence and tax Manufacturing in Australia: Holden folds Elections in Afghanistan: To the victor the toils Marriage in Pakistan: Clawless clauses Banyan: Mandarins for Mandarin The coronavirus epidemic: Casualties of war Diplomatic rhetoric: Discovering Twitter Chaguan: Putting faces to the numbers American policy in Africa: A strategy on autopilot Voting in Africa: Why the young and rich vote less Delivering letters in Congo: The postman never rings at all South Sudan: Inching towards peace Jews in Egypt: Welcome back, sort of Arab states and the IMF: A bit too austere France’s economy: The president’s paradox French puritanism: Liaisons dangereuses China v Sweden: Shotgun diplomacy Russia v Yukos: Much ado about “such” Orthodox Christianity: The sound of schism Turkish justice: Guilty of caring Charlemagne: How to mess up immigration Constitutional reform: Judging the judges Brexit negotiations: Will Britain lose its marbles? Immigration policy: Points mean prizes Brexit negotiations: Why Britain isn’t Canada Trade unions: Uncomradely behaviour Reshuffle revisited: Revolving doors Members’ clubs: More woke than coke Bagehot: The imperial prime minister Covid-19: Watchful waiting The data economy: Mirror worlds Economics: Digital plurality Infrastructure: Spreading out Business: The new AI-ssembly line Geopolitics: Virtual nationalism Policy: And the winner is… Sources and acknowledgments Business and the next recession: Downturn, disrupted Tech regulation: The Brussels effect, continued Apple in China: Red plateau Force majeure: A force to be reckoned with Bartleby: Cutting the pie Schumpeter: The CEO who loved me The Bundesbank: Spheres of influence Labour hoarding: Are there too many central bankers? HSBC pivots east, again: The incredible shrinking bank Michael Milken: Friends in high places Buttonwood: The cash bug Cross-border capital flows: Following the money Young, gifted and in the red: Student debt in America amounts to over $1.5trn Free exchange: Shock therapy The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Is there anybody out there? Soil microbiology: Three’s company Psychology: Face blind Cell biology: An atlas of the innerverse Histories of the web: Paradise lost Jean history: Rhapsody in blue Mountaineering wars: Summit diplomacy Kurdish art: Remember, remember Russian lives: The grey zone Economic data, commodities and markets Discrimination in China: Call me maybe “Mad Mike” Hoare: Living dangerously Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)