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Abe Shinzo’s legacy is more impressive than his muted exit suggests

He not only reshaped Japan’s economy and foreign relations—he also paved the way for future reforms

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Abe’s successor has a mountain to climb

Leaders

America’s ugly election

A disputed result in November could be dangerous

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Asia

India’s economy shrinks by a quarter as covid-19 gathers pace

The record-breaking contraction comes at the same time as record numbers of new infections

Finance & economics

The World Bank’s business-rankings mess

The data may have been fiddled

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Business

Schumpeter: Could you build a better TikTok?

The short-video app offers its putative American buyers a chance to rethink social-media business and governance models

Daily chart

A new study analyses the murky world of fake Amazon reviews

Paying for bogus recommendations gives only a temporary boost in sales

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Obituary

Chadwick Boseman was a king in the public mind

The actor who embodied the character of Black Panther died on August 28th

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America’s ugly election: How bad could it get?

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International

Covid-19 is spurring the digitisation of government

China

China needs to train more doctors

United States

America’s black upper class and Black Lives Matter

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Air pollution is returning to pre-covid levels

This bodes ill for respiratory health

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In context: The geopolitics of the eastern Mediterranean

Europe

Turkey’s Black Sea gas find does not match its president’s hype

It will not end reliance on imports; and the eastern Med will stay tense

Leaders

Dealing with a dangerous dispute in the eastern Med

Turkey and Greece must be encouraged to exchange views, not blows

International

A row over gas is raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean

Europe

Turkey and Greece avoid coming to blows, for now

Special report: Dementia

As humanity ages the numbers of people with dementia will surge

The world is ill-prepared for the frightening human, economic and social implications

The search for a cure for dementia is not going well

But behavioural changes can reduce the risk of developing it

The big question about dementia care is who is going to do it

The best care is “people-centred”, ie, labour-intensive

Might dementia tourism to lower-wage economies become a trend?

It will remain a niche market; but shows how the best care needs a lot of carers

No country has found a sustainable way to finance dementia care

And most have not even tried

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