No port in a storm: the world’s stranded sailors
Pandemic policies seem to have overlooked the key workers who keep the global trade system afloat: merchant seamen. More than a quarter of a million are at sea unwillingly. Misinformation was a plague...
16 Jun 202021min
A shifting alliance: NATO
As the organisation’s defence ministers meet this week we look at two of its principal challenges: China’s rising influence and America’s declining interest. After more than three decades, a grand mur...
15 Jun 202021min
Heavy lifting: India’s lockdown tradeoffs
As the world’s largest lockdown loosens, we examine how it went wrong and the challenges ahead for a health-care system pushed to its limits. As statues fall across the globe our culture correspondent...
12 Jun 202022min
Spend, sometime: Germany’s economic shift
After decades as the continent’s penny-pincher, the country seems to be splashing out. That isn’t just a covid-19 response; a big thrift shift was already under way. Burundi’s brutal outgoing presiden...
11 Jun 202021min
Haftar be going now: the balance shifts in Libya
Tripoli has long been under siege by Khalifa Haftar, a warlord bent on toppling the internationally backed government. At last he has been pushed back from the capital; now what? North Korea is no lon...
10 Jun 202020min
Cops, a plea: police reform in America
George Floyd will be laid to rest today; our obituaries editor reflects on his life and untimely death. His murder has fuelled a long-overdue discussion of America’s fragmented and unaccountable polic...
9 Jun 202021min
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
