The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
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Leaders

Vaccines
Suddenly, hope
Scientists have managed to create a vaccine for covid-19. Getting enough people vaccinated will be even harder

The world and Joe Biden
Great expectations
America’s allies need to show that they have learned to pull their weight

America’s new president
The economy Biden inherits
The incoming administration faces two extraordinary economic challenges

Asset management
Beyond Buffett
The agonies of traditional value investing are a sign of frothy stockmarkets—and a changing economy

Democracy in Africa
Zambia’s descent
There is still time to stop a slide to autocracy and economic collapse

Letters

Letters to the editor
On transgender sports, diplomacy, Facebook, management, Armenia, avatars, Brazil
Briefing

Covid-19 vaccines
Bullseye
A highly effective vaccine will transform the fight against covid-19. But a lot remains to be done

Investment strategies
Diminished value
Value investing, made famous by Warren Buffett, is struggling to remain relevant as an ever greater share of the economy becomes intangible

Asia


Politics in Kyrgyzstan
A crowd-sourced commander-in-chief
Australia’s trade with China
Down under and out
State elections in India
Against daunting odds
Myanmar’s election
Mother knows best
Banyan
Money but not a class
China


Politics in Hong Kong
Leaving in despair
Self-help books
Highly effective people’s republic
Chaguan
Tea before dawn
United States


Covid-19 and the next president
Transmission and the transition
Digesting the election
Nothing to see here
Firings and hirings
Going, going, Pentagone
Fox News and Donald Trump
Season two is cancelled
Rewilding the prairie
Where the wild things are
The urban-rural divide
City v hills
Lexington
A Democratic defeat in victory
Middle East & Africa


South Africa
Ace in the hole?
Zambia
Slouching towards Zimbabwe
Feminism in Egypt
Speaking up about sex crimes
Saeb Erekat
A negotiator in winter
The Americas


Peru
Early retirement
Central America
Greek tragedy
Bello
The problem of proxy presidents
Europe


Nagorno-Karabakh
Peace, for now
Ukraine
Judge not, that ye be not judged
Europe’s recovery fund
Turn on the spigot
France in the Sahel
Mission impossible but necessary
Britain


Protest
Small-town revolution
Foreign-investment rules
For your protection
Brexit negotiations
Joe calling
Public spending
Chumocracy
Phone-hacking
Hanging on the telephone
Energy
Chain reaction
Financial services
London calling, at last
Bagehot
A populist in the palace
International


American foreign policy
What does the world want from Joe Biden?
Special report


Asset management
The money doctors
Index funds
Passive attack
Agency problems
Double trouble
Capital allocation
Stewards’ inquiry
Private markets
Taking back control
Venture capital
Frogs and princes
China
The Shanghai Open
The end-game
Doctor’s prescriptions
Business


Chinese private enterprise
The intimidation game
Disney
The streaming kingdom
Pasta
On board the spaghetti express
Royal Enfield
Kickstart
Schumpeter
The big McComeback
Finance & economics


America’s economy
Giant jab
Booster shot
News of an effective vaccine injects optimism into markets
Buttonwood
Coming out of the ultracold
Commodities
Amber wave
Turkey
Comings and goings
Klarna
Smooth shopping
Free exchange
Field excursion
Science & technology


Fast diagnosis for covid-19
Test match
Planetary science
Questions of life
Materials science
Would you like sugar cane in that?
Books & arts


Home truths
The human stain
Street style
Fashion statements
American society
All for one
Hollywood fiction
Ready for his close-up
Johnson
On natural declension
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, markets and commodities
Graphic detail


Polling in America
Déjà vu all over again
Obituary


James Randi
The woo-woo catcher