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United States

Donald Trump bans visas even for high-skilled foreign workers

The pandemic slump is used to justify a fierce immigration clamp-down

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The Trump administration doesn’t like high-skilled immigrants either

Finance & economics

China is the world’s factory, more than ever

Its export share has expanded during the pandemic. But is this the high-water mark?

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Europe

Gay “ideology” is worse than communism, says Poland’s president

Facing a tough election, Andrzej Duda needs enemies

Middle East & Africa

African countries are struggling to keep track of covid-19

Not enough tests are being done to contain the virus

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Business

Bartleby: Waging war on recessions

An early analysis of furlough schemes

Daily chart

Donald Trump’s presidency has been a gift for booksellers

Excoriating accounts have sold better than sycophantic ones

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Books & arts

“The Prisoner”, a classic TV series, is apt lockdown viewing

Confinement is not all that makes the show timely

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The pandemic has shown just how essential Jeff Bezos’s firm has become—and that it has vulnerabilities

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Briefing

Can Amazon keep growing like a youthful startup?

Leaders

Cargo-ship crews are stuck at sea

International

Covid-19 raises the risks of violent conflict

Graphic detail

Fighting in the Sahel has forced 1.7m people from their homes

Jihadists are only partly to blame

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In context: Green economics

Leaders

Green investing has shortcomings

The financial system and climate change

Briefing

How much can financiers do about climate change?

The role that green investing can play must not be misunderstood or overstated

Finance & economics

Investment in oil supply has collapsed. It may not roar back

The Americas

How big beef and soya firms can stop deforestation

Special report: The new world disorder

Global leadership is missing in action

Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the peace even as they fought the war. Today’s leaders need to do something similar, says Daniel Franklin

Who runs the world?

As America gets tired, China gets busy

The UN has too much on its plate

Missions impossible

The clock is ticking for nuclear arms control

Avoidable Armageddon

The UN’s structures built in 1945 are not fit for 2020, let alone beyond it

Grand redesigns

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