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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon A year after George Floyd: Race in America The economic recovery: The curious case of the disappearing worker Italy’s nationalists: Forgotten, but not gone The green boom: Hot air The Horn of Africa: Brothers in blood Letters to the editor: On tax, crime, Somaliland, energy, diplomacy, Warren Buffett, Germany Israel and Hamas: Mismatched and misbegotten The role of the state: Joe se transforme America unmasked: Off their face Silicon Valley: Woke at work The MOVE bombing: Moving on Children divorcing their parents: Laters, maybe Lexington: Joe’s modest Middle East medicine Colombia: Writing on the wall Non-independent islands: Head v heart Renata Flores: The way it makes her feel The Tokyo Olympics: Faster, stronger, superspreader? The isolated Antipodes: Tall borders Archaeology in Laos: Jars on a plain Politics in the Pacific: Play FAST and lose Banyan: Vanishing act Traditional education: The return of Confucius Deniable dissent: Xi who must not be named Chaguan: New life for an old tradition Eritrea’s war: Master of the Horn? South Africa’s indigenous people: Saving a language with 45 clicks Cain v Abel: Cowabungle The Strait of Hormuz: When the ship hits the scam Morocco and Spain: Testing the floodgates Italy: Waiting in the wings German colonialism: Blood money Balkan money-laundering: Hide and seek Poland: The PiS dividend NATO and phone hacking: Enemy armies with black mirrors Charlemagne: A model student The economy: Hot but not overheating Covid-19 in Bolton: Variations on a gene Northern Ireland: All change, please Theatre design: Box clever Farmland prices: The bumpier the better Whitehall reform: The servant class Public inquiries: Trial of the century Bagehot: Over there and over here Working parents and covid-19: Take Your Child to Work (Every) Day Race in America: What it means to be an American African-Americans: Things not seen White Americans: The souls of white folk Anti-discrimination policies: Black power’s not gonna get your mama Racial categories: The all-American skin game Reparations: The freedman’s bureau The future: The price of the ticket The streaming wars: Monster of a merger Hong Kong’s tycoons: Check your privilege Worker shortages: Paying a pittance is passé From self-isolation to self-service aisles: After the pandemic boom online retail sales are slowing Tier-two tech firms: In the shadow of giants Schumpeter: The name is Bezos. Jeff Bezos Climate finance: The green meme Computer chips: Loading, please wait Cryptocurrencies: Bit by bit Buttonwood: Move over VIX Interest rates: Learning to live without LIBOR Free exchange: Separation anxiety Pesticides: Debugging. A new approach Pomology: Lemon tonic Packaging: Every last drop Medical ventilation: Bottom-breathers Space exploration: Welcome to Utopia The “Tractatus” at 100: The rest is silence Johnson: Dictionary blues Rudyard Kipling: His best beloved Art and memory in South Korea: Ghost town Economic data, commodities and markets Protest and politics: Price of progress Asfaw Yemiru: The long walk Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)