Australia is ending its zero-covid strategy
Aug 28th 2021“THIS IS NOT a sustainable way to live in this country,” declared Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister,…
Chad’s former strongman, Hissène Habré, dies of covid-19
HIS SWIMMING-POOL-turned-prison was known as La Piscine. There, Hissène Habré’s torturers would bind victims’ feet and hands…
Green assets are on a wild ride
Investors of all stripes are getting on board
The Philippines’ ferocious lockdown lingers on, despite uncertain benefits
Jul 11th 2020“I’M CONSTANTLY AFRAID that we will get infected,” frets Diverson Bloso, “We don’t have money to bring…
India’s ban on TikTok deprives the country of a favourite pastime
IN INDIA, AS elsewhere, TikTok looks like a cornucopia of bright and busy nonsense: an endless, blooming, buzzing confusion of…
A supposed detente between Japan and China is already fading
Jun 27th 2020BACK IN FEBRUARY, when covid-19 was raging in China, a young girl in Japan took Chinese social media by storm. Dressed…
India’s ban on TikTok deprives the country of a favourite pastime
IN INDIA, AS elsewhere, TikTok looks like a cornucopia of bright and busy nonsense: an endless, blooming, buzzing confusion of…
America is rapidly pulling troops from Afghanistan
FAIZA IBRAHIMI is too young to remember when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan as a theocracy. She can scarcely believe her parents’…
Inside the thieves’ guild in Freetown
LIKE MANY clubs, it is selective. Only the right sort of person may join. It has a spokesman, a financial secretary and an interim…
An animal model of covid-19 is now available
Jun 11th 2020MICE ARE, as it were, the guinea pigs of science. And these days they are often genetically engineered guinea pigs,…