American unemployment falls, but normality is still far away
The question remains: how many jobs have gone for good?Jun 5th 2020WASHINGTON, DCDIRE HEADLINES had already been prepared before…
Have Siberian fires been smouldering underground all winter?
Jun 6th 2020SEEN FROM the sky, the northern stretches of Siberia in early May were a splodgy white, their thinning winter snow…
Covid-19 quietly sweeps across Yemen
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The Spreading Protests in the US: Six Days from George Floyd’s Death
Published on Jun 1, 2020 by Anne Amid a global pandemic, unrest about George Floyd’s death seems to have spread all over the…
Gay people in Myanmar have adopted a secret language
WEDNESDAY HAS just turned into Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, and pleasure-seekers are on the prowl in a glitzy…
Vietnam’s secretive Communist Party embarks on a leadership transition
May 21st 2020IN JANUARY FOUR grey apparatchiks with little name or face recognition inside Vietnam, let alone abroad, will emerge…
America files a new financial salvo at Beijing
May 14th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available…
With oil prices depressed, China presides over a buyer’s market
WHEN OIL supply threatened to overwhelm storage tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, in April, the pain was felt as far as Chongqing. Retail…
Companies are tying their loans to measures of do-goodery
Feb 15th 2020EARLIER THIS month WSP, a mid-size Canadian consultancy, announced that it had amended the terms of a loan of $1.2bn….
Elon Musk wants to link brains directly to machines
Jul 18th 2019SAN FRANCISCOELON MUSK, perhaps the world’s most famous entrepreneur, is sometimes referred to as “the Trump…