The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Universities
The absent student
Covid-19 will be painful for universities, but it will also bring long-needed change

Lebanon
No way to run a country
A big blast should lead to big change

Tech wars
Trumpian TikTok
The forced sale of the app is the wrong approach to Chinese tech

Vaccine economics
A bigger dose
The world is not spending anywhere near enough on a coronavirus vaccine

Gay rights
The world comes out
People are growing more tolerant. But in some countries coming out is still too risky

The dismal yet flexible science
When the facts change
Economics sometimes changes its mind

Letters

Letters to the editor
On reopening schools, oil, French accents, Amazon, sports teams
Briefing

Covid-19 and college
Uncanny University
Higher education was in trouble before the pandemic. Covid-19 could push some institutions over the brink

Asia


Hindu nationalism
India shrining
Australia and covid-19
Borderline cases
Corruption in Uzbekistan
Weirs and recriminations
Personal freedom in Thailand
Cold cuts
Banyan
Trojan democrat
United States


Electing a president
Jarring
The postal service
Law of the letter
Hyperloops
Pipes of fancy
DC history
Without representation
Baseball returns
Strike two
Taxing and spending
From unthinkable to universal
Lexington
Channel-hopping
China


Entertainment
Heady Hunan
The civil code
Thirty more days of hell
The Americas


Argentina
Fighting on fewer fronts
Guyana and Suriname
Oil futures
Bello
Beyond the troika of tyranny
Middle East & Africa


Lebanon
City in ruins
Mali
Fear and loathing in the Sahel
Prohibition in a pandemic
Tea-total
The pandemic in Africa
One million and not counting
Europe


Racism in Europe
See no evil
Open again
Genoa bridge reopens
Turkey
Sultan of censorship
Covid-19 in the Balkans
Not as stated
Charlemagne
Strandkörbe in place of sangria
Spain
The signal turns to red
Britain


Scottish independence
Is Caledonia Catalonia?
Covid-19 in Scotland
Independence fever
Food and trade
A pig of a problem
Planning reform
Weak foundations
Masks and culture
Made in the USA
John Hume, 1937-2020
A dove over Derry
Bagehot
The smell of rot
International


Coming out
Queer, there and everywhere
Business


Corporate America
The trouble with TINA
Stockmarket indices
Inclusive growth
Semiconductors
Worth an arm and a leg
Microsoft and TikTok
Unproductivity puzzle
European business
Sverige AB v Deutschland AG
Bartleby
Called to account
Schumpeter
Dangerous curves ahead
Finance & economics


Vaccine economics
More hard questions
Chinese finance
A dynamic duopoly
Banks’ earnings
Dud light
Pre-doctoral programmes
Selection effects
The IMF and the World Bank
Abandoning hope
Free exchange
Change for the dollar
Schools brief


A healthy dose of competition
From hospitality to hipsterism
Science & technology


Artificial intelligence
Bit-lit
Covid-19 testing
Dive in
Entomology
Parasites under pressure
Cookery
A good grilling
Books & arts


Museums and restitution
Legacies of violence
Johnson
The Greatest Phrases!
Climate change
A glacier’s pace
New American fiction
The girl next door
Home Entertainment
In the woodshed
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Life in the time of corona
90% economy, 120% gastronomy
Obituary


Olivia de Havilland
The ingénue who roared