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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Covid-19: The politics of pandemics Financial conditions: V is for vicious Russia: Vlad the indefinite Latin America: How to reform Chile Succession at JPMorgan Chase: Mission accomplished Letters to the editor: On Bernie Sanders, green technology, Mexico, Chinese MBAs, facial expressions The covid-19 virus: Anatomy of a killer JPMorgan Chase: The house that Jamie built Public health: Dropping the ball Covid-19 and the economy: Spluttering The Democratic primaries: Berning out Climate change: Green Texas Rural policing: Country cops Lexington: Digital myths and political reality Chile: A model country in need of remodelling Myanmar’s army: Making war and law Traffic on Everest: High and climbing Politics in Afghanistan: Twin peaks Sectarianism in India: First the mob, then the law Banyan: Apocalypse, but no deliverance Politics and the coronavirus: A gesture to the sequestered Covid-19 and farmers: The other 40% Chaguan: When nationalism bites back The politics of cheap oil: The big squeeze Tanzania and the World Bank: Bankrolling bigotry Traffic in Nigeria: Two wheels bad, four wheels better Iran and covid-19: Sickly state Lebanon: Resilient no more Russia: The prisoner in the Kremlin French local elections: A kicking on the way Women and work: Why Germany’s pay gap is so large Charlemagne: Pour décourager les autres The NHS and covid-19: Is it ready? The Budget: Economic medicine Scottish politics: Sturgeon at bay House names: Dun Namin’ Technology startups: Unicorn lead Policing the police: Watchdogs without bite Looking for gardeners: Green gods Bagehot: The meaning of conservatism Covid-19: All’italiana Deaths from covid-19: Where will it be worst? Personalised medicine: Populations of one The human genome project: Welcome to you Genes and treatment: Side-effects include death Congenital disease: Broken The pharmaceutical industry: Kill or cure? The sum of all lives: The coming of the datome Technology in India: Silicon subcontinent Coronavirus and business: The anti-covid industrial complex Bartleby: In sickness and in health Cloud business: Altocumulus Corporate purpose: Going in circles Schumpeter: The rise and rise of Accenture The cash question: In a sea of debt Oil prices: Scorched earth The bear facts: Entering a bear market Italy in crisis: Mr Conte counts the costs of covid Indian banks: When Yes means no Buttonwood: Involuntary code Free exchange: The ravages of time Big wet data: An ocean of things Ecology: Siren smell Atomic energy: Fun-sized fission Palaeontology: The smallest dinosaur? Music and protest: The beat goes on Global scourges: The famished Fiction of reality: Brothers in arms Future histories: Fragments and ruins Johnson: Old wine, new bottles Economic data, commodities and markets Covid-19 in cities: Ghost towns Freeman Dyson: Infinite possibilities Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)