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Leaders

As the economy recovers fiscal policy has to shift

Is it time to wind down emergency stimulus?

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Some economies are bouncing back. But recoveries can easily go wrong

Europe

Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party clings on to the presidency

The campaign invoked classic populist themes

Highlights
China

NGOs in China have helped the government provide covid-related relief

That will not earn them more freedom

United States

Could Democrats pick up a Senate seat in Kansas?

The party has a strong candidate, but needs an FDR-like performance at the top of the ticket

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Finance & economics

Free exchange: Americans need more guidance from the Fed

Spelling out the future path of policy would help

Daily chart

The Bank of Mum and Dad as young adults’ social insurance

New evidence that, when short of cash, many young people turn to their parents

Moreover
Britain

Britons are defrosting decades-old diets

Fruit is out; fry-ups are in

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The new ideology of race: and what's wrong with it

July 11th 2020
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Briefing

Segregation still blights the lives of African-Americans

Business

How CEO pay in America got out whack

Europe

Turkey’s president is playing religious politics

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

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In context: Tech wars

Leaders

TikTok and the Sino-American tech split

The tech industry is dividing

Business

Why SMIC is surging

China’s leading chipmaker looks unfazed by Uncle Sam’s semiconductor sabre-rattling

China

The West cannot force China to read its interests differently

Leaders

America is determined to sink Huawei

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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