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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon America's election: Why it has to be Biden Green innovation: Breaking through Furlough schemes: The zombification of Britain Germany’s Christian Democrats: The long farewell Letters to the editor: On Indonesia, Colombia, human rights, Nagorno-Karabakh, CEOs, the Arctic, beer The Trump audit: Four years on The international stage: Realism and the wrecking ball Culture: Busking for bail-outs Italy: Rich pickings Albania’s royal family: The birth of Baby Zog Abortion in Poland: Who is the strictest of them all? Nagorno-Karabakh: The wheel turns, this time Charlemagne: Macron’s mission Data and governance: How the government lost its nerds Brutalism and beauty: Demolition Derby Grand houses: Brideshead rebooted The Tories and race: Black and blue Prisons: Locked up, locked down Malaria and covid-19: Masked up, ready to battle bugs Guinea: Ballots and bloodshed Sudan: General agreement Israel’s new airport: Not in my wetland Amy Coney Barrett: Against the flow State legislatures: Flipping houses Direct democracy: Gentle propositions Information and elections: Big little lies Donald Trump and the Latino vote: Better hombres Corruption and conflicts of interest: The art of the self-deal Lexington: Battle-hymn of the Never Trumpers Award: National Press Foundation Argentina: A harvest of grievance Brazil: Each race, a new race Bello: MexiCoke Indian politics: Central bark Street food in Singapore: Out with the new Climate policy in Japan: Not a carbon copy Press freedom in Pakistan: News whose printing causes fits Banyan: Gotabaya, caudillo Leadership succession: Xi’s not going Demography: Go figure Chaguan: Chicken and egg Birth rates: Baby bust, baby boom Climate change and innovation: Greenbacks for greenery Samsung: The Lee way Gig companies: Catch 22 Opioids and business: Painkiller wars Bartleby: Luxury with your laptop Schumpeter: Jeff Bezos’s final frontier Aditya Puri: The world’s best banker? Cross-border lending: Making inroads Emerging marketmakers of last resort: Quite encouraging Europe’s public finances: The fiscal question The yuan: Caveat victor Buttonwood: Blitz-coin Free exchange: The notorious GDP Lunar exploration: Watermarked Fishing: Have your hake and eat it Ecology: Rats, palms and Palmyra Island Political philosophy: Sylvanian fantasies Matisse in lockdown: Windows of opportunity Bumps in the night: Uninvited guests Kenyan fiction: Magic mountain Johnson: The riddle of the cucumbers Economic data, commodities and markets Immunity to covid-19: The valleys of the shadow of death Hawa Abdi: It takes a village Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)