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The Economist PDF ePub mobi - August 1st-7th 2020Locked out: When and how to let migrants move again
VERY COUNTRY in the world has closed or partly closed its borders since the pandemic began. In total, they have issued more than 65,000 restrictions on mobility. For some places, especially islands, border controls have bought valuable time to prepare for covid-19. But the costs of global immobility are immense (see article)...
The Economist PDF ePub mobi - July 25th-31st 2020Free money: When government spending knows no limits
It is sometimes said that governments wasted the global financial crisis of 2007-09 by failing to rethink economic policy after the dust settled. Nobody will say the same about the covid-19 pandemic. It has led to a desperate scramble to enact policies that only a few months ago were either unimaginable or heretical...
The Economist PDF ePub mobi - July 11th-17th 2020The new ideology of race
America’s problem with racism can be divided into two parts. One contains all the myriad injustices that still blight African-American lives a century and a half after the end of slav- ery. The other is the way that factions on the right exploit racial division as a political tool...
The Economist PDF ePub mobi - July 4th-10th 2020Retro or radical?
When the history of the Trump presidency is written, a photo-op in Lafayette Square at the beginning of June might just mark the turning-point. Since he announced his run for the White House in 2015, Donald Trump’s political method has been to maximise at all times the amount of attention direct- ed at him...