NOV 7TH 2020
When every vote counts

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

America’s election
When every vote counts
What the 2020 results say about America’s future

War in the Horn
Ethiopia is poised to unravel
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed may be starting a civil war. He should stop and talk

Financial markets
Fixing the plumbing
A well-functioning Treasury market is crucial—whoever is in the White House. Time to fix how it works

Secularism and Islam
Voltaire’s heirs
France is right to defend free speech

Alternative 5G technology
Open sesame
A new technology could be the answer to the Huawei dilemma that many countries are still torn over

Letters

Letters to the editor
On nature, the Arctic, John Kennedy, Covid-19, Taiwan, culture, capitalists, Berlin, Albanians
Briefing

Covid-19 in Europe
The relapse
Many countries in Europe are returning to some sort of lockdown. This time they will have to do better when they emerge

Asia


Elections in Myanmar
False start
Music in South Korea
Hot for trot
Banyan
Islands of liberality
China


Economic policy
Circling back
Chaguan
How China sees America
United States


The presidential race
Hello, 46
Congress
Spell unbroken
Polling error redux
Whiffing twice
Election lawsuits
Courting the presidency
Governorships and ballot initiatives
The covid races
Lexington
Trump and Trumpism
The Americas


Canada
Northern light
Brazil
Bundles in the jungle
Bello
It’s hard to do good
Middle East & Africa


Conflict in Ethiopia
Abiy’s call to arms
Bobi Wine
Sing it loud
Tanzania and Ivory Coast
Setting a bad example
Debt in the Middle East
Not flattening the curve
Robert Fisk
Rage on the page
Europe


Russia
Putin’s new model army
Terrorism in Europe
Oh Vienna
Belarus
Staying put
Spain
Us Gallegos
Alcohol in Sweden
The state’s grip on grape and grain
Charlemagne
Baldrick’s Europe
Britain


Populism
Look who’s back
Remembrance Day
Over the top
Scotland and defence
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
The economy
The fright before Christmas
Education
New tricks
Bagehot
Captain Foresight
International


Global hipsters
Flat-white world
Business


The outlook for corporate America
Still ailing
Xiaomi
Mi time
The turkey glut
Gobble, gobble?
Video games
The games are only just beginning
Bartleby
Questionable behaviour
Schumpeter
Mickey v Masa
Finance & economics


Treasuries
The bonds that bind
Buttonwood
Our currency, your problem
Regulators v Ant Group
Ant agonises
The world economy
Winter is here
Lebanon’s financial mess
The final unravelling
Free exchange
Turning inward
Science & technology


Superbatteries
What do you get when you cross a hare with a tortoise?
Covid-19
Teed up
Manipulating magnetism
Out of left field
Think again
Female stone-age hunters
Books & arts


Colour in art
Paint it black
Renaissance art
Take me to church
China and the second world war
Lest they forget
The Western mind
Value judgments
Martin Amis’s new book
In my life
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 super-spreading
Power of inequality
Obituary


Sean Connery
Screen Scot