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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The state and covid-19: Everything’s under control The pandemic: The next calamity America’s rescue package: Mixed medicine Iran and covid-19: Get serious Videoconferencing etiquette: Through the keyhole Letters to the editor: On Taiwan, Myanmar, primaries, elephants, Freeman Dyson, congenital diseases, house names The pandemic and the state: Creating the coronopticon Economic policy and the virus: Building up the pillars of state Congress responds: A $2 trillion bazooka Viral exceptionalism: The bills you have to pay Dating: Love under lockdown Covid-19 and the locked-up: Pushing on an open door Teenage sexting: Sharing and not caring The Green Party: Zowie Howie Lexington: Sore and feverish Covid-19 in Brazil: BolsoNero Mexican-American relations: Distancing neighbours Bello: The Latin American patient Covid-19 in Japan: Blowing out the flame Politics in Bangladesh: Ee begum! Sexual abuse in South Korea: Naming and shaming Banyan: An island at the ready Covid-19 in South Asia: Hand-to-mouth to lockdown The post-virus economy: Back to work Chaguan: No shining city on a hill Coronavirus in Africa: Not immune The virus in the Arab world: An even tighter grip Covid-19 reaches Gaza: Quarantine while under siege Spain: The emergency room Italy, Germany and the virus: A numbers game Coronanomics: Money for all Swearing: Dutch disease Russia’s economy: Isolationomics Charlemagne: Aesop’s euro zone Covid-19 and inequality: The great divider Politics: Slow starter Drugs: Stay in, drop out Health care: National Covid Service Village England: The Swan takes flight Community life in London: Alone, together Saving jobs: Furlough maintenance Scottish politics: Leaping Salmond Bagehot: The new politics The pandemic: Stop, collaborate and listen Hospital ventilators: Wind rush Jobs at The Economist: We’re hiring Africa: The African century Demography: Sex and education Migration: Young, bright and on the move Fighting the jihadists: The forever wars Food and climate: Feeding another billion Economy: Take-off speed The future: Perchance to dream Business and the virus: Best in show Confinement shopping: Still open Human resources: The importance of people people Bartleby: Diary of a home worker Distributed companies: The nowhere firm Schumpeter: A dispatch from the home front World trade: Trucks, queues and blues On shaky ground: America’s mortgage market sickens The dollar: The Zoom accord The euro zone: Ripping up the rules Commodities: Buyer beware Buttonwood: Bridges to somewhere Free exchange: How to pay for the pandemic Covid-19 and climate change: Clear thinking required Covid-19 and pollution: Heat and dust Detecting elevated body temperatures: And now here is the fever forecast Disease and democracy: How to survive a plague Art on the internet: The online of beauty Italian history: Civilisation and barbarism Disappearing acts: Woman overboard Disaster fiction: The yolk of fate Economic data, commodities and markets Climate change: Winter is not coming Michel Roux: Cooking with Albert Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)