Ballot bonanza: Latin America’s year of elections
Ecuador’s elections on Sunday kick off a packed year of polls in the region. Democracy’s foothold in South America looks assured; in Central America, less so. Engineers are vastly improving the core t...
5 Feb 202121min
Cheques notes: getting America’s stimulus right
Congress is on the cusp of pushing through a $1.9trn stimulus bill. But would it be money well spent? We examine the economics. Nearly half of India’s students attend cheap, efficient private schools ...
4 Feb 202121min
Rise above the cloud: Amazon’s new chief executive
Jeff Bezos is relinquishing the reins—partly—of the firm he founded. We take a look at Andy Jassy, who will replace him as chief executive at a profitable but tricky time. Our annual Democracy Index i...
3 Feb 202120min
As a general rules: Myanmar’s coup
The army already had plenty of political power, but following a landslide election loss it dramatically seized more. After five years of democracy, will the country abide a return to military rule? Th...
2 Feb 202120min
More needles in the haystack: vaccine candidates proliferate
That a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in a year is astonishing—and promising candidates just keep coming. How will the virus’s variants change the dynamic? Palestine may at last hold elections...
1 Feb 202122min
Tug of warheads: the nuclear order
Successful arms-control diplomacy has kept proliferation at bay for decades. But many states now have nuclear ambitions; we look at an increasingly worrying shift. Rapid development in sub-Saharan Afr...
29 Jan 202121min
Conte’s inferno: political crisis in Italy
The president is scrambling to pull together a workable government following Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s resignation—and the instability has big implications for Europe’s post-pandemic plans. We e...
28 Jan 202120min
Vials and tribulations: the EU’s vaccine push
The European Union’s vaccine rollout was slow and fragmented even before pharma companies warned of supply shortfalls; we ask what’s gone wrong. Australia’s proposed law that would force tech titans t...
27 Jan 202119min
