OCT 31ST 2020
Why it has to be Joe Biden

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
Leaders

America's election
Why it has to be Biden
Donald Trump has desecrated America’s values. Joe Biden offers the prospect of repair and renewal

Green innovation
Breaking through
Innovation is an essential part of dealing with climate change. More is needed

Furlough schemes
The zombification of Britain
Why the government should not have extended the furlough scheme

Germany’s Christian Democrats
The long farewell
Germany’s biggest party is making a hash of choosing its next leader, and probable next chancellor

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Indonesia, Colombia, human rights, Nagorno-Karabakh, CEOs, the Arctic, beer
Briefing

The Trump audit
Four years on
The first of two articles looks at what Donald Trump’s presidency has meant for Americans at home

The international stage
Realism and the wrecking ball
Donald Trump has given American foreign policy a bracing jolt. He has also undermined it in ways both shabby and reckless

Asia


Indian politics
Central bark
Street food in Singapore
Out with the new
Climate policy in Japan
Not a carbon copy
Press freedom in Pakistan
News whose printing causes fits
Banyan
Gotabaya, caudillo
China


Leadership succession
Xi’s not going
Demography
Go figure
Chaguan
Chicken and egg
United States


Amy Coney Barrett
Against the flow
State legislatures
Flipping houses
Direct democracy
Gentle propositions
Information and elections
Big little lies
Donald Trump and the Latino vote
Better hombres
Corruption and conflicts of interest
The art of the self-deal
Lexington
Battle-hymn of the Never Trumpers
Award
National Press Foundation
Middle East & Africa


Malaria and covid-19
Masked up, ready to battle bugs
Guinea
Ballots and bloodshed
Sudan
General agreement
Israel’s new airport
Not in my wetland
The Americas


Argentina
A harvest of grievance
Brazil
Each race, a new race
Bello
MexiCoke
Europe


Culture
Busking for bail-outs
Italy
Rich pickings
Abortion in Poland
Who is the strictest of them all?
Albania’s royal family
The birth of Baby Zog
Nagorno-Karabakh
The wheel turns, this time
Charlemagne
Macron’s mission
Britain


Data and governance
How the government lost its nerds
Brutalism and beauty
Demolition Derby
Grand houses
Brideshead rebooted
The Tories and race
Black and blue
Prisons
Locked up, locked down
International


Birth rates
Baby bust, baby boom
Business


Climate change and innovation
Greenbacks for greenery
Samsung
The Lee way
Gig companies
Catch 22
Opioids and business
Painkiller wars
Bartleby
Luxury with your laptop
Schumpeter
Jeff Bezos’s final frontier
Finance & economics


Aditya Puri
The world’s best banker?
Cross-border lending
Making inroads
Emerging marketmakers of last resort
Quite encouraging
Europe’s public finances
The fiscal question
The yuan
Caveat victor
Buttonwood
Blitz-coin
Free exchange
The notorious GDP
Science & technology


Lunar exploration
Watermarked
Fishing
Have your hake and eat it
Ecology
Rats, palms and Palmyra Island
Books & arts


Political philosophy
Sylvanian fantasies
Matisse in lockdown
Windows of opportunity
Bumps in the night
Uninvited guests
Kenyan fiction
Magic mountain
Johnson
The riddle of the cucumbers
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Immunity to covid-19
The valleys of the shadow of death
Obituary


Hawa Abdi
It takes a village