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The Economist todaySaturday, July 11th 2020

News analysis

Leaders

A better way to contain Iran’s nuclear programme

Sabotage might set it back. A deal would limit it

Asia

Singapore’s ruling party wins easily—but its vote falls sharply

Rarely, in over half a century in power, has the PAP fared worse

Highlights

Europe

Turkey’s president is playing religious politics

He wants to turn Justinian’s cathedral from museum back to mosque

Finance & economics

The race to lead the WTO begins

Picking a winner could get messy

From our columnists

United States

Lexington: The mark of Cain

A Christian pollster argues that a reckoning is due in America’s churches

Daily chart

Week in charts: Still segregated and still struggling

Covid-19 and poverty in America • Digital China’s rising stars • An AIDS update from cyberspace • Suspicious bangs in Iran

Moreover

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Will virtual-reality gyms let us work out in the pandemic?

Put on a headset and fight your way to fitness: a VR gym marries gaming to exercise

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Finance & economics

The poorest countries may owe less to China than first thought

Britain

Oxford University is leading in the vaccine race

Asia

America is rapidly pulling troops from Afghanistan

Graphic detail

Money really can buy happiness and recessions can take it away

Polls from 145 countries show that citizens of wealthier ones are more satisfied and secure

In context: The World If

The World If

What if water shortages destabilise China?

The painfully unequal distribution of water in China reawakens intra-regional resentments not seen in decades. An imagined scenario from 2050

The World If

What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s?

How would the world look today if more countries had adopted nuclear power after the 1973 oil crisis? A look back on an alternative history from a rather different 2020

The World If

What if technology tracked all carbon emissions?

The World If

What if mammoths are brought back from extinction?

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