The world this week

The world this year
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Covid-19 in 2020
The plague year
This will be remembered as a moment when everything changed

Targeting big tech
Credibility gap
Trustbusters say they are going after the tech giants. Markets don’t take them seriously

Children
Getting girlhood right
Girls are doing better than ever. Don’t let the pandemic stymie them

The Arab world
Ten years after the spring
Why democracy doesn’t yet spread in the Middle East and north Africa

Country of the year
Admiration nation
The Economist’s annual award for most-improved country

Letters

Letters to the editor
On farming, books, aerial combat, Latin, Machiavelli, diversity, Ireland, the turkey
Asia


Expatriates in Asia
Shipping out
Preserving Yangon
In with the old
Banyan
A lonely furrow
China


Sexual harassment
Refusing to be silent
Human rights
Proxy war
United States


The final Senate races
The decider
Covid-19 in New York
The Holly and the UV
Cyber-security
Bear hunt
Schools and covid-19
Lesson learned
Lexington
Good neighbours
The Americas


Brazil
Awaiting their fate
Cuba
From distortion to disruption
Middle East & Africa


The Arab spring at ten
No cause for celebration
Iran
Go hang
Western Sahara
Heat in the desert
Kidnapping in Nigeria
The lost boys of Kankara
Congo’s gold rush
Beer, brothels and broken dreams
Europe


The Vatican’s finances
Falling on hard times
The European Union budget
Locked and loaded
Health care
Flight of the white coats
Azerbaijan’s ghost towns
Bitterness prevails
Charlemagne
Sprechen Sie Tory?
Britain


Negotiations with the EU
An extra mile, a narrow path
Brexit-related disruption
Lorrypolitik
Heathrow expansion
Cleared for take-off
Animal welfare
The pet offensive
Bagehot
The wisdom of Scrooge
International


Waste-pickers
Down in the dumps
Christmas Specials


Newsletters
Season’s greetings!
Rural France
Fragments from a forgotten valley
Bloodsuckers
History, written by the vectors
Sidney Street
The one that got away
Digital humanities
The book of numbers
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
The Alexander technique
Shingle art
A universe of stones
Essay
Awesome, weird and everything else
Erasmus
Citizen of the world
South Korean mountains
Race to the top
Crossword, etc
Cryptic and coniferous
Quiz
Try our Christmas quiz
Gay rights
A queer old tale
Travels in Zululand
Trust deficit
Extraterrestrial hiking
A short walk in Gale crater
Economies past
Factories and families
Shaolin monastery
The profession of renunciation
Reconstruction
Revolutionary embers
Military deception
Bodyguard of lies
Pleistocene Park
The prophet of permafrost
Business


Big oil
Brown v broad
Cinema and streaming
Big bets on the small screen
Bartleby
Straight talking
Schumpeter
The parable of Ryanair
Finance & economics


High-tech finance
Quantum for quants
Market mania
Froth or fundamentals?
Counterfactual economics
Panned
Free exchange
Location, location, location
Science & technology


The highest fidelity
An auricular spectacular
Evolution and agriculture
Good catch
Data storage
Re-record, not fade away
Books & arts


Poetry on the Tube
Tunnels of love
Winter weather
The white stuff
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The media and covid-19
The biggest story ever?
We’re hiring full-time and trainee data journalists
Obituary


John le Carré
The watchful scribbler