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How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion

In America, political and commercial strains have led to questions about its value and meaning

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Enlightenment liberalism is losing ground in the debate about race

Science & technology

Siberia’s heatwave would not have happened without climate change

Few extreme weather events can be wholly pinned on greenhouse-gas emissions. This one can

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Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries

In many parts of the world, official death tolls undercount the total number of fatalities

Open Future

“Making real the ideals of our country”

Cory Booker, a Democratic senator from New Jersey, on racial justice, fixing racial income inequality—and optimism

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China

Chaguan: A Sino-American bond, forged by Chinese students, is in peril

Plummeting Chinese demand for a US education will undermine American soft power

Daily chart

How big is China’s economy? Let the Big Mac decide

Our index reckons China’s economy is bigger than the World Bank thinks

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Books & arts

An enlightening history of German porcelain

It is both a precious industry and a fragile one

The Economist’s coverage of the coronavirus

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

July 11th 2020
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The Americas

Spain’s complicated relationship with Latin America

Britain

Anglophilia is fading in America

Business

Slackers and Stakhanovites

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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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