JANUARY
Jair Bolsonaro’s contentious first year in office
Iraq and Iran react to the killing of Qassem Suleimani
Iraq and Iran raise the stakes after the killing of Qassem Suleimani
How will Iran retaliate for the killing of Qassem Suleimani?
Big protests in Paris are Emmanuel Macron’s severest test yet
Canada accuses Iran of downing a plane in Tehran, killing 176
Why was Australia’s government so ill-prepared for the brushfires?
In a Blow to China, Taiwan’s president coasts to a second term
Many Han Chinese don’t mind the gulag for their Uighur neighbours
Globally, roads are deadlier than HIV or murder
Iranian clerics risk being overwhelmed by a crisis they created
How Vladimir Putin is preparing to rule forever
The West’s biggest economic policy mistake
America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign
Back pain is a massive problem which is badly treated
Can the World Economic Forum keep its mojo?
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial exposes rival views of political power
Conflict resolution relies increasingly on diplomatic back channels
The world is better prepared than ever to stop the Wuhan coronavirus
Narenda Modi stokes divisions in the world’s biggest democracy
Investors at home and abroad are piling into American government debt
It has never been easier to launch a new brand
America’s anything goes presidency
John Bolton’s claims jolt Donald Trump’s impeachment trial
Trapped in Iran: my summer as a guest of the Revolutionary Guards
China’s coronavirus semi-quarantine will hurt the global economy
Will the Wuhan virus become a pandemic?
Britain’s regulatory-divergence dilemma
FEBRUARY
A weaker post-Brexit Britain looks to America
Boris Johnson sets course for the hardest possible Brexit
The bungling of the Iowa caucuses may harm the Democrats’ nominee
Pete Buttigieg claims a first-class ticket out of Iowa
The race to produce a vaccine for the latest coronavirus
What it takes to be a CEO in the 2020s
Li Wenliang’s death is a new crisis for China’s rulers
The weak health-care system complicates China’s coronavirus battle
Annegret Krap-Karrenbauer’s resignation upends German politics
Donald Trump loosens America’s restrictions on landmines
Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg emerge as the Democrats’ favourites
With a new chancellor, Boris Johnson consolidates his power
Irish unification is becoming likelier
Technology is poised to upend America’s property market
People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets
America urges Europe to join forces against China
Japan’s GDP shrinks dramatically after a tax rise and a typhoon
The EU wants to set the rules for the world of technology
Mike Bloomberg makes a wobbly campaign debut
Why Morgan Stanley wants to buy E*Trade
American and the Taliban agree to wind down their long war
Why Julian Assange’s extradition case will get political
Is Bernie Sanders unstoppable?
The Iranian regime risks exacerbating the outbreak of covid-19
As its covid-19 epidemic slows, China tries to get back to work
Bernie Sanders, nominee
Will an attack on Turkish troops in Syria change the course of the war?
MARCH
A big win in South Carolina rekindles Joe Biden’s presidential hopes
Millions of Chinese, cooped up and anxious, turn to online doctors
America’s central bank acts to offset the impact of covid-19
Joe Biden redux
The right medicine for the world economy
What the world has learned about facing covid-19
How African democrats can fight back
For the first time, Lebanon defaults on its debts
How market panic can feed back to the world economy
A constitutional ploy may keep Vladimir Putin in power until 2036
In Michigan, Joe Biden deals a lethal blow to Bernie Sanders
The politics of pandemics
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power
Should other countries copy Italy’s nationwide lockdown?
the impact of covid-19 on airlines
The Federal Reserve acts again, as market turmoil continues
Governments are still struggling to get ahead of the coronavirus
How covid-19 is interrupting children’s education
Joe Biden builds an insurmountable lead
In Europe, and around the world, governments are getting tougher
Governments are spending big to protect the world economy
Why America’s financial plumbing has seized up
Armies are mobilizing against the coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis thrusts corporate HR chiefs into the spotlight
Congress puts aside its habitual dysfunction and responds to covid-19
The state in the time of covid-19
Countries are using apps and Data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic
Rich countries try radical economic policies to counter covid-19
New York is fast becoming the world’s next coronavirus hotspot
South Korea keeps covid-19 at bay without a total lockdown
APRIL
The coronavirus may sink the cruise-ship business
How high will unemployment in America go?
Covid-19 presents stark choices between life, death and the economy
The hard choices covid policymakers face
Technology startups are headed for a fall
Some American states are curbing travel to fight the coronavirus
Boris Johnson is admitted to intensive care with covid-19
Boris Johnson is in intensive care with covid-19
The crisis will change the world of commerce
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed fissures within religions
Should the public wear masks to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2?
The changes covid-19 is forcing on to business
Might the pandemic be a lifeline for the rich world’s homeless?
A historic OPEC+ deal to curb oil output faces many obstacles
How to reopen factories after covid-19
App-based contact tracing may help end coronavirus lockdowns
Is China winning?
The economic crisis will expose a decade’s worth of corporate fraud
Can the world find a good covid-19 vaccine quickly enough?
Why countries can’t meet the demand for gear against covid-19
Prisons worldwide risk becoming incubators of covid-19
Covid-19 is spreading to America’s South with unnerving speed
How to build and deploy coronavirus testing at unprecedented scale
After the disease, the debt
Autocrats see opportunity in disaster
The world’s car-giants need to move fast and break things
For people with dementia, the coronavirus pandemic is a nightmare
Closing schools for covid-19 does lifelong harm and widens inequality
Why voting online is not the way to hold an election in a pandemic
The hunt for the origins of covid-19
MAY
Life after lockdowns
Which emerging markets are in most financial peril?
the 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind
In many ways, stockmarkets have been extraordinary in 2020
Two potential therapies for covid-19 have some effect
For microfinance lenders, covid-19 is an existential threat
Scientific research on the coronavirus is being released in a torrent
The market v the real market
The world’s food system has so far weathered the challenge of covid-19
How pandemics have inspired art, music and literature
America and Britain play cold-war games with Russia in the Arctic
Health workers become unexpected targets during covid-19
Can sport survive the covid-19 pandemic without spectators?
The pandemic has spawned a new way to study medical records
The European Union is having a bad crisis
Has covid-19 killed globalisation?
The pandemic is creating fresh opportunities for organised crime
America and China take their rivalry to the World Health Organization
America’s far right is energised by covid-19 lockdowns
Russia’s covid-19 outbreak could be far worse than the Kremlin admits
The risk of severe covid-19 is not uniform
The covid and climate crises are connected
China paints a target on Hong Kong, but abandons one for growth
The world urgently needs to expand its use of carbon prices
As covid-19 spreads Indonesia’s president has an unhappy Eid
Cummings, not going: Boris Johnson’s top aide refuses to quit
Will wet markets be hung out to dry after the pandemic?
India and China Square up on their Himalayan border
How the world’s most powerful country is handling covid-19
China’s national-security bill for Hong Kong is an attempt to terrify
Flying people to the Space Station is SpaceX’s biggest deal yet
JUNE
Protests sparked by George Floyd’s death are still raging
History is repeated in protests at the death of George Floyd
The violence in American cities reflects the fury of polarisation
The grim racial inequalities behind America’s protests
Police violence, race and protest in America
The pandemic is still gathering pace in most of the world
How SARS-COV-2 causes disease and death in covid-19
America’s top brass break with Donald Trump
How George Floyd’s death reverberates around the world
NATO sets its sights on China
Following George Floyd’s death, New York opens police records
The power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd
Great cities after the pandemic
How big beef and soya firms can stop deforestation
Covid-19 forces courts to hold proceedings online
America’s Supreme Court protects gay and trans workers against discrimination
India and China have their first deadly clashes in 45 years
North Korea blows up detente with the South
The pandemic has shows that Amazon is essential – but vulnerable
Britain has the wrong government for the covid crisis
Green investing has shortcomings
Donald Trump finds sanctuary in Tulsa
Covid-19 has let to a pandemic of plastic pollution
Donald Trump bans visas even for high-skilled foreign workers
Has America’s Department of Justice been politicised?
Politicians ignore far-out risks: they need to up their game
Will Donald Trump resume nuclear testing?
African-American businesses need more than “buy black” campaigns
Nissan’s newish boss wants to re-engineer the troubled carmaker
JULY
Hong Kong braces itself for repression by China’s Communist Party
China’s draconian security law for Hong Kong buries one country, two systems
Why Joe Biden’s instinctive caution makes real change possible
Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adapt
Oxford University is leading in the vaccine race.
A musician’s murder sparks mayhem in Ethiopia
America’s huge stimulus is having surprising effects on the poor
Cutting American police budgets might have perverse effects
This year’s AIDS conference has brought snippets of good news
The new ideology of race
A better way to contain Iran’s nuclear program
TikTok and the Sino-American tech split
Jihaddists in the Sahel threaten west Africa’s costal states
A ban on Huawei further worsens Britain’s relations with China
How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion
China v America
The risks of keeping schools closed far outweigh the benefits
Donald Trump is hoping for a covid-19 treatment by November
Lockdowns could have Long-term effects on children’s health
Trial of a vaccine and new drug raise hope of beating covid-19
Is there life on Mars?
America’s backwards coronavirus strategy
Governments must beware the lure of free money
TikTok’s Chinese parent is scrambling to hang on to its hit app
The pandemic shows the urgency of reforming care for the elderly
Donald Trump cancels his Florida celebration
Saudi Arabia has put strict limits on this years haj
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook face an antitrust grilling
Would a Biden administration be softer than Trump on China?
Google has outgrown its corporate culture
AUGUST
As covid-19 recedes, let migrants move again
Amid a brutal contraction, corporate Germany assesses the damage
For those affected by dementia, the pandemic has been especially grim
Narendra Modi cements a victory for Hindu nationalism at Ayodhya
Beirut after the blast: the crunch of glass, acrid smoke and stairs slick with blood
Covid-19 will be painful for universities, but also bring change
As more gay people come out, tolerance will spread
A new AI language model generates poetry and prose
A Russian satellite weapon shows the danger of hazy rules in space
Jimmy Lai’s arrest in Hong Kong is the latest blow to free speech
Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running-mate
Donald Trump’s executive orders do little for hard-hit Americans
Xi Jinping is reinvesting state capitalism. Don’t underestimate it
Trump administration wants a US-China commercial split
Boris Johnson needs to focus on boosting Britain’s economy
America musters the world’s biggest naval exercise
War heroes no longer dominate American politics as they once did
Ang San Suu Kyi has brought Myanmar peace talks, but no peace
What next for Mali?
How viruses shape the world
Viruses have big impacts on ecology and evolution as well as human health
A row between Turkey and Greece over gas is raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean
China is killing academic freedoms in Hong Kong
The Republican Party in Congress could become even more male
Robots that can walk are now striding to market
Why California is experiencing its worst fires on record
Russians and Blarusians are tired of backwards-looking autocrats
How to reduce the mental trauma of covid-19
In twenty years, exchanges from clubby firm to firms to huge conglomerates
China’s war games raise fears for Taiwan’s security
SEPTEMBER
The Supreme Court may tip the 2020 elections
Covid-19 is spurring the digitisation of government
Donald Trump tries out law-and-order talk on suburban voters
Abe Shinzo’s legacy is more impressive than his muted exit suggests
How to forecast armies’ will to fight
Why is Wall Street expanding in China?
Younger Americans feel their voting weight
Britain suggests it may overturn parts of the EU withdrawal agreement
India and China exchanged their first border gunfire in 45 years
Britain threatens to flout international law
Is the office finished?
Who owns what?
The world needs a better World Health Organisation
The Taliban and the Afghan government talk peace at last
Scientists find possible signs of life in the clouds of Venus
Britain’s armed forces act ready for a revolution
Who are the TikTok saga’s biggest winners
Is it the end of the oil age?
A battle for the Supreme Court looms after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The bruised city of Wuhan has become a showcase for China
The UN renews its vows in a 75th-birthday general non-assembly
America wants more ships and fewer sailors to compete with China’s Navy
Donald Trump narrows his Supreme Court search to five women
Why the Democrats are our narrow favourites to win the Senate
Why governments get covid-19 wrong
The knife fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement
What quantum computers reveal about innovation
Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
American presidential debates rarely change election outcomes
A dismal presidential debate will leave voters unimpressed
OCTOBER
Why, despite the coronavirus pandemic, house prices continue to rise
Bidenomics: the good the bad and the unknown
How will Donald Trump’s covid-19 infection affect the election?
China is demolishing villages and forcing people into bigger ones
Donald Trump’s illness may shorten the odds of his losing the election
Will the economic and psychological costs of covid-19 increase suicides?
Covid-19 complicates Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination
Google, antitrust and how to best regulate big tech
The pandemic has caused the world’s economies to diverge
AntGroup and fintech come of age
Why “America First” makes wars in other places more likely
The race for the White House is a little closer than it looks
Across the world central governments face local covid-19 revolts
A subsidies scrap between Boeing and Airbus is over (maybe)
Thailand’s king seeks to bring back absolute monarchy
The persecutions of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity
The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
Jacinda Ardern’s quiet competence triumphs in New Zealand
Democrats could win big in Georgia
The scandal-hit market for passports and long-term visas is booming
Soon enough, Wall Street will have to take millennial investors seriously
Should covid be left to spread among the young and healthy?
Donald Trump and Joe Biden press their mute buttons
Why Donald Trump seems to be in trouble in the Midwest this time around
Amy Coney Barrett is set to transform America’s Supreme Court
Latino men are a bright spot in Donald Trump’s faltering campaign
The pandemic may be leading to fewer babies in rich countries
Why it has to be Biden
President Trump has had real achievements and a baleful effect
NOVEMBER
How covid-19 hinders the fight against malaria
Joe Biden really is in pole position
Biden or Trump? Americans may have to wait days to know who won
Donald Trump does better than predicted, but Joe Biden has a slight edge
Joe Biden’s recovery in the Midwest brings him closer to victory
What the 2020 results say about America’s future
Joe Biden is set to capture the White House
After Joe Biden’s victory, will Donald Trump wreck the transition?
Joe Biden and the new art of world leadership
Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s vaccine is the start of the end of the pandemic
Most Republican’s don’t dare to cross Donald Trump
What the Biden administration would do differently on covid-19
The promise of the new covid-19 vaccine is immense
America’s allies should share the burden with Joe Biden
Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots
Ethiopia’s civil war is spreading outside its borders
Ten trends to watch in the coming year
As America pulls out of Afghanistan the Taliban fight on
The China strategy America needs
Accepting a disappointing election result is a key part of democracy
A lack of data on race hampers effort to tackle inequalities
Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election’s results are failing
Joe Biden will embrace allies – and enlist them to take on China
Janet Yellen will lead Joe Biden’s Treasury. What does she stand for?
The pandemic has prompted questions about high-stakes exams
Democracy contains the seeds of its own recovery
The father of Iran’s nuclear programme is assassinated
Narenda Modi threatens to turn India into a one-party state
A gagging bill could shield French police from charges of brutality
DECEMBER
Deep Mind is answering one of biology’s biggest challenges
In Ethiopia, Tigray’s ousted rulers flee to the mountains
The down of digital medicine
Time to make coal history
America’s economic recovery no longer looks so strong
Covid-19 spurs national plans to give citizens digital identities
The pandemic could give way to an era of rapid productivity growth
Companies have raised more capital in 2020 than ever before
After the pandemic, will inflation return?
Disney plans to match Netflix in its spending on streaming
What a grand chemistry experiment reveals about Brexit
Paris-anniversary climate pledges bring progress but fall short
Hackers have vaulted into the heart of America’s government
The year when everything changed
America and Europe clamp down on big tech
Covid-19 threatens girls’ gigantic global gains
Covid-19 has posed new challenges to the world’s waste-pickers
A new coronavirus variant may derail pandemic-control efforts
How covid-19 and Brexit combined to isolate Britain
Israel’s government collapses, triggering yet another election
Though muffled, China’s #MeToo movement still has support
Britain and the European Union agree on the hardest Brexit
Being a girl is special, difficult and better than it used to be
Brazil faces hard spending choices in 2021
The Post-Brexit trade agreement leaves many questions unanswered
Britain needs a post-Brexit foreign policy
Britain has lost the EU. Can it find a role?
How Brexit happened
News Source: The Economist
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