Insufficient postage: the fight over America’s mail service

Insufficient postage: the fight over America’s mail service

The US Postal Service is one of America’s most popular and necessary public institutions. Now it is at the centre of a battle over November’s election. The growth of microfinance in Cambodia has been for the most part positive, but the pandemic is posing challenges to its sustainability. And if you want to buy a used Airbus A380, it’s a buyer’s market. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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So long, and we’re keeping all the fish: Brexit

So long, and we’re keeping all the fish: Brexit

Britain’s divorce from the European Union still hinges on sticky matters of fishing rights and the enforcement of fair competition, and time is rapidly running out to strike a deal. India’s fantastica...

14 Joulu 202018min

Taking the temperature: a climate chat with the UN chief

Taking the temperature: a climate chat with the UN chief

Ahead of a weekend meeting to assess and bolster the Paris Agreement, our correspondent speaks with Antonio Guterres about his reasons for cautious optimism. The founder of an upstart far-right Dutch ...

11 Joulu 202020min

If you already joined ‘em, beat ‘em: Facebook gets sued

If you already joined ‘em, beat ‘em: Facebook gets sued

American regulators have put mergers that they approved years ago at the heart of antitrust lawsuits—a tricky bid to curb the social-media giant’s market power. We examine the surge of an artist-led p...

10 Joulu 202021min

Laïcité, égalité, fraternité? France’s secularism bill

Laïcité, égalité, fraternité? France’s secularism bill

President Emmanuel Macron’s draft bill walks a fine line balancing the country’s foundational secularism and worries about Islamist terrorism. Amid slumping economies everywhere, Taiwan’s looks surpri...

9 Joulu 202019min

Granting immunity: America weighs vaccine approval

Granting immunity: America weighs vaccine approval

As Britons receive the first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, authorities in America are meeting this week to authorise its emergency use. We examine the approaches on both sides of the pond. De...

8 Joulu 202021min

Fairly unusual: Ghana’s elections

Fairly unusual: Ghana’s elections

In a region racked by dodgy polls, the country looks to continue a trend of uncontested handovers of power. That is not to say, however, that there aren’t sticking points. As tortuous Brexit negotiati...

7 Joulu 202022min

Intensive scare: covid-19 ravages America

Intensive scare: covid-19 ravages America

Numbers of cases, hospitalisations and deaths are rocketing across the country. We examine the situation in the Midwest, as a microcosm of a wider unfolding tragedy. Venezuela’s ruling party will take...

4 Joulu 202023min

Your planet, or mines? Kicking the coal habit

Your planet, or mines? Kicking the coal habit

In the West market forces are squeezing coal—even as its use rises in Asia. We examine how the world can wean itself off the dirtiest fossil fuel. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’s probable presidenti...

3 Joulu 202021min

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