Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid
As American lawmakers reach a deal on the country’s largest-ever rescue package, we examine how planners are balancing the health of their citizens and that of their economies. China’s lockdown came i...
25 Mars 202022min
Trial, trial again: the race for covid-19 treatments
The world’s scientists are swiftly identifying drugs that may help with the pandemic, and setting out on the long road toward a vaccine. Ethiopia’s prime minister has been hailed as a peacemaker—so wh...
24 Mars 202023min
Continental shift: covid-19 grips Europe
The novel coronavirus is spreading around the world, but its grip on Europe is curiously tight; we ask why, and what to expect next. We pay a visit to Colombia, which is suffering a refugee crisis it ...
23 Mars 202023min
Lessons unplanned: school shutdowns spread
Schools are closing down as covid-19 measures take hold; we look into the social, economic and educational costs for a world thrust into distance learning and homeschooling. Wild market swings have re...
20 Mars 202022min
Pandemic, meet politics: the US-China spat
Prior tensions have blunted the chances for a co-ordinated response to covid-19—and both countries are fighting a grand ideological battle alongside an epidemiological one. India has so far reported f...
19 Mars 202021min
Drawbridges up: lockdowns and covid-19
Borders are closing; suggestions to stay home are becoming mandates. We examine how the national responses to covid-19 have varied, and how they may be converging. In America, Joe Biden cemented his l...
18 Mars 202022min
Same old song, and Gantz: fresh coalition talks in Israel
He has four weeks to form a government, but Binyamin Netanyahu’s rival Benny Gantz is likely to find that the battle lines from three inconclusive elections haven’t moved. As Western factories shift g...
17 Mars 202022min
Flight risk: airlines and covid-19
Travel restrictions that are proliferating worldwide may represent an existential threat to many airlines. How long the pandemic lasts will determine how much the aviation industry is reshaped by it. ...
16 Mars 202020min
