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Leaders

The risks of keeping schools closed far outweigh the benefits

Millions of young minds are going to waste

Related

As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?

China

Why business in Hong Kong should be worried

A new national-security law is not the only threat

Highlights
Science & technology

A new material helps transistors become vanishingly small

And more transistors mean more computing power

Business

NBC turns to ads to fund its streaming wars

As the cost of content rises, more video companies consider running commercials

From our columnists
United States

Lexington: Donald Trump ends the career of his former chief ideologue, Jeff Sessions

The president, a fan of Confederate monuments, topples one

Daily chart

Week in charts: Late for school

America’s splurge amid the surge • The Arab world and cheap oil • Away with Huawei • Venice’s flood barrier

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Pandating: coronavirus and the language of love

If you want to date in a pandemic, you’d better know the lingo

The Economist’s coverage of the coronavirus

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Trade without trust: How the West should do business with China

July 18th 2020
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Books & arts

How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion

Europe

Venice tests its mighty flood defences

Finance & economics

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

Graphic detail

The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural

As natural wealth is used up, economies will rely more on human capital

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In context: Race and social change

Leaders

The new ideology of race

And what is wrong with it

International

Enlightenment liberalism is losing ground in the debate about race

A new ideology is emerging

Briefing

Segregation still blights the lives of African-Americans

Leaders

The power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd

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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