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The Economist todaySunday, July 12th 2020

News analysis

Leaders

TikTok and the Sino-American tech split

The tech industry is dividing

The Americas

A religious challenge to “no contact” with isolated indigenous groups

Missionaries want to win souls in the Amazon. Brazil’s president is on their side

Highlights

Books & arts

How the intellectual coalition forged by the cold war collapsed

It splintered amid the rise of populism, as Anne Applebaum recounts in “Twilight of Democracy”

Science & technology

Measuring luminescence helps to date a remarkable new discovery at Stonehenge

High-tech archaeology

From our columnists

Britain

Bagehot: Anglophilia is fading in America

But the British still have something to teach the Americans

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

Obituary

William Dement died on June 17th

The pioneer of sleep science and founder of the world’s first sleep clinic was 91

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Leaders

Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adapt

Leaders

As the economy recovers fiscal policy has to shift

Leaders

Sourdough economics: no need to knead

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