Say his name, and others’: American protests spread globally
Far beyond America’s shores demonstrators are calling for justice in their own countries. It’s an awkward time for America’s allies, and a fortuitous one for its rivals. Labour-market swings during re...
8 Jun 202021min
Not everything in moderation: Twitter v Facebook
The seemingly similar social networks have quite different business models—and that goes some way in explaining why they choose to police their content differently. Emmanuel Macron again finds himself...
5 Jun 202022min
This, too, shall impasse: Brexit talks resume
The pandemic has made negotiations more difficult and changed the political calculus on both sides. Prospects for a deal before year’s end are dimming. After more than two decades on the lam, an alleg...
4 Jun 202021min
Forgoing the distance: covid-19 spreads in Brazil
Even those who can distance themselves are unsure whether to do so—in part because President Jair Bolsonaro mocks the science and rails against lockdowns. The private-equity industry has ballooned sin...
3 Jun 202022min
An epidemic of hunger: covid-19 and poverty
The pandemic is driving up the number of impoverished people for the first time in more than two decades. Lockdown-policy calculations are simply different in the poor world. The ill effects of China’...
2 Jun 202019min
The flames spread: protests in America
Demonstrations against police violence have only amplified. We ask why George Floyd’s death touched a nerve, and why these events keep happening in America. A look at the country’s cyber-defences reve...
1 Jun 202022min
Crying foul, again: Black Lives Matter
Protests have broken out in Minneapolis and far beyond, following another black man’s death at the hands of a white policeman. Can the once-mighty Black Lives Matter make itself heard? The pandemic ma...
29 Mai 202021min
Checking their privilege: Beijing’s threat to Hong Kong
China’s parliament voted today to draft legislation that would utterly undermine the territory’s independence. What now for protesters, for Western powers, for the region’s foreign firms? The pandemic...
28 Mai 202021min
