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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Pandemic trade-offs: A grim calculus Corporate bail-outs: Bottomless Pit, Inc The technology industry: Don’t waste a good crisis Mozambique: Gas, guns and guerrillas Oil and geopolitics: The Rosneft riddle On covid-19, Bolivia, sports, rivers, lichen: Letters to the editor Pandemic trade-offs: Hard choices Medical ethical dilemmas: Triage under trial Anatomy of an investing bubble: Exit unicorns, pursued by bears Covid-19 and the states: It can happen here Social distancing: Movement Republicans The labour market: Trough to peak Wisconsin’s chaotic elections: Petri-dish democracy The presidential campaign: Reade’s digest Military strategy: Send the marines Lexington: A shadow over the Sunshine State Venezuela: Maduro rap Cuban doctors: Mercy and money Bello: Wisdom and witlessness Migration and the virus: Under pressure The occult in Myanmar: A wizard wheeze Thailand’s economy: Sigh-am South Korea and America: Stay-at-home allies Love in Indonesia: Wed first, ask questions later Banyan: The drifters The gig economy: Visible and vocal Chaguan: A Chinese mirror Cabo Delgado: Mayhem in Mozambique Chocolate in Africa: Sweet dreams are Congolese States of emergency: Stay home or be whipped A lost year in Saudi Arabia: Stalled Faith and covid-19: Insular, but not isolating France and covid-19: The new war European agriculture: Farmhands needed Sweden and covid-19: Europe’s outlier Germany’s would-be leader: Söder’s moment Kosovo: A Balkan bust-up Charlemagne: The Orban way Innovation: Move fast and try not to break things Life under lockdown: Home comforts Testing: Negative result Policing a lockdown: Booby on the beat The army: War, or something like it Rough sleeping: Shelter from the storm The steel industry: Braced for trouble Call centres: Please hold Bagehot: The return of the opposition Covid-19 and mental health: Only connect Self-improvement: Net benefits Jobs at The Economist: We’re hiring Corporate rescues: Great white night Boeing: Up in the air Show business and the pandemic: Aaaaand cut! Huawei: Indestructible Bartleby: Just the job Schumpeter: You’re furloughed! Emerging economies: Stringent but stingy Projecting uncertainty: Economists’ forecasts for GDP growth in 2020 vary widely Squeezed incomes in America: Bills, bills, bills Buttonwood: Advantage Norway Allianz: Lonely work Free exchange: Chinese rate trap The coronavirus pandemic: Testing’s testimony Treating patients: A racing chance Overloaded telecoms: Breaking the net Geopolitics: The victor’s curse New fiction: Secrets and lies Pandemics of yore: How to understand a plague Creatures of the deep: Rich and strange Johnson: Corona-speak “I, Claudius”: A family affair All-in together: Gambling with the future Economic data, commodities and markets Coronavirus statistics: Fatal flaws Joseph Lowery: Justice like waters Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)