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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Race and social change: The power of protest Slavers’ statues: Marble monsters The world economy: Achilles heal Cities and the pandemic: After disaster Britain and the European Union: Don’t pretend, extend Letters to the editor: The European Union, the Thames, Peru, the classics, Kraftwerk Cities after covid-19: The destiny of density German economics: Hey, big spenders Italy: The not-so-dolce vita France: Raoultmania Sweden: Who killed Olof Palme? Charlemagne: The Sinatra doctrine Remembering slavery: Pillaried Ozophilia: The Tories’ promised land Quarantine rules: Mumbo jumbo Sleep under lockdown: Bedtime story Courts in a pandemic: Rough justice The pee problem: Causing a stink Social insurance: The great risk shift Bagehot: Battle for the working class Industry in Africa: Will it bloom? Burundi: “The Champion of Patriotism” Covid-19 in the Middle East: An unwanted guest returns Libya’s civil war: A warlord retreats The protests: No justice, no peace Police reform: The shifting ground Identifying protesters: Supremacist safari The presidential campaign: Model voters Lexington: Lone Wolf The Amazon: Of chainsaws and supply chains Bello: Brazil’s endangered democracy Freedom of the press: Muffled cries Renewable energy in Japan: No mill will Politics in Taiwan: Han’s down Banyan: Circulars, directives and rules Urban society: On every street Street life: Back peddling Chaguan: Pondering America’s election Black Lives Matter: So other people would be also free Autocrats denounce America: We love to see you burn Artificial intelligence and its limits: Reality check Data: Not so big The business world: Algorithms and armies Brain scan: An AI for an eye Computing hardware: Machine, learning Automobiles: Road block The future: Autumn is coming Acknowledgements Business and race in America: The great awakening? Hacking: Basin motives Bartleby: Tale of the century Japan’s bullying bosses: Anger management Turkish companies: Hard landing Virgin: Still smiling, captain? Schumpeter: The great game Crude oil: After the fall America’s jobs market: Acute or chronic? India’s economy: Moody moment The yuan: The 24-body problem Bank provisions: Pandemic pendulum Buttonwood: Pumping iron Free exchange: Stony the road Planetary monitoring: Something’s in the air Laboratory mice: Here’s one I prepared earlier Nasal probiotics: No entry! The search for a covid-19 treatment: Testing times Rethinking capitalism: Free but fair Authenticity in architecture: Living wills Johnson: Snide and prejudice “Brideshead Revisited” at 75: The Flyte club Home Entertainment: Pop goes postal Home Entertainment: In the summer kitchen Economic data, commodities and markets Deforestation in Brazil: The roots of the problem Larry Kramer: Shout loud, save lives Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)