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Covid-19 threatens girls’ gigantic global gains

Countries must work harder to safeguard progress

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Being a girl is special, difficult and better than it used to be

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Which is The Economist’s country of the year?

The most-improved country is one where people stood up for democracy

Christmas Specials

Home-working had its advantages, even in the 18th century

And there exist surprising parallels with today

The Economist explains

Why fishing might scupper a Brexit deal

Fisheries’ role as a symbol of British policy independence outweigh their economic importance

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The Arab spring: ten years on

Trustbusters v tech • Froth in the markets • Oil in troubled waters • The story of the century

The Americas

Bello: Natural and political disasters in Central America

Hurricane damage will cause problems for Joe Biden, too

Christmas Specials

Test yourself with our Christmas crossword

A cryptic challenge for all cruciverbalists

More on the US presidential transition

China

Sensing change in Washington, China is mustering allies at the UN

Joe Biden may show more interest than Donald Trump in the body’s human-rights debates

United States

Six months after mass protests began, what is the future of BLM?

Reimagining Black Lives Matter

United States

Georgia’s run-offs could decide Donald Trump’s future—and the Senate

United States

How much economic stimulus does America actually need?

Weekly edition

Holiday double issue

December 19th 2020
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Asia

The Japanese authorities understood covid-19 better than most

That has helped keep Japan’s outbreak relatively small

Leaders

Why democracy failed in the Middle East

And how it might, one day, succeed

Leaders

America and Europe clamp down on big tech

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

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Only the world wars have rivalled covid-19 for news coverage

In late March, 80% of our articles mentioned “covid” or “coronavirus”

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The World Ahead

Paris illuminates the way ahead for the world’s cities

Trust your citizens and build more bike lanes

The World Ahead

Antonio Guterres wants to avoid a Great Fracture

The leader of the UN says co-operation is more crucial now than ever

The World Ahead

The world could turn a corner on climate change

The World Ahead

Ursula von der Leyen on teamwork solving global problems

Special report: Asset Management

The money doctors

The asset-management industry is at last sorting the quacks from the true specialists, argues John O’Sullivan

Passive attack

How index investing is reshaping the asset-management industry

Double trouble

The trouble with delegating choices about what to invest in

Stewards’ inquiry

If investors buy stocks in an index, who watches managers?

Taking back control

Privates are what listed assets are not—niche, illiquid and fee-rich

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