8320, 8323, 8415, 8457, 8462, 8416, 8470, 8472, 8473 Will Giuseppe Conte’s resignation lead to a political shift in Italy? The economic crisis has increased the likelihood of what the former Italian PM calls a “government of national salvation”. By David Broder
8320, 8324, 8415, 8457, 8459, 8416 What can Joe Biden achieve in his first 100 days? As well as beating Covid-19, the president’s task is to define the “unity” of which he spoke in his inaugural address. By Emily Tamkin
8268, 8272, 8320, 8323, 8415, 8456, 8457, 8462 Why the German press misreported on AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine By Ido Vock
8300, 8362, 8415, 8493, 8496, 8422, 8491 How influencers justify jet-setting to Dubai in the midst of lockdown Social media stars have always provided their followers with luxury escapism, should that change in a pandemic? By Sarah Manavis
8277, 8330 The rise of the fact-checker in an age of disinformation As president Donald Trump made more than 30,500 false or misleading claims; and the Washington Post tracked every one. By Dorian Lynskey
8268, 8517, 8415, 8457, 8458, 8459, 8462 How should we remember the Holocaust? Why the plan for a new national memorial in Westminster is causing such division. By Richard J Evans
8320, 8322, 8415, 8493, 8499, 8457, 8459, 8416, 8473 Forced abortion and secret sterilistation: how China has abused Uighur women for decades Women from China's Uighur minority reveal how the country's family planning policies, which have long controlled women’s bodies, have been weaponised against them. By Ellen Halliday
8268, 8329, 8320, 8324, 8322, 8415, 8493, 8497, 8457, 8459, 8461, 8416, 8468, 8471 Can the US and China forge an alliance over the climate crisis? Joe Biden must confront China's human rights violations while also promoting climate diplomacy. By India Bourke
8300, 8301 Harvard’s top astronomer says our solar system may be teeming with alien technology Avi Loeb spent his career searching for evidence of alien life. When he found it, the scientific community refused to believe him. By Will Dunn
8320, 8324, 8415, 8457, 8459, 8416, 8472 Why 2021 may yet be a “renaissance” for US unions despite falling membership Job losses during the pandemic have increased the unionised percentage of the overall workforce. By Katharine Swindells
8508, 8417, 8320, 8324, 8415, 8457, 8459 Can Joe Biden restore America? The US faces a crisis of reputation on the world stage and of democracy at home. The burden now falls on the new president to rebuild his nation. By Emily Tamkin
8519, 8328, 8415, 8461, 8472 Why China's economy is less healthy than it looks Chinese GDP figures represent real economic activity, but it is not all productive economic activity. By Freddie Hayward
8519, 8523 How coal’s uneven retreat threatens the world’s climate The sun may be setting on coal-fired power in Europe and North America, but its persistence in Asia threatens global climate targets. Mark Nicholls, Energy Monitor
8519, 8520 What does the sale of Debenhams tell us about the future of retail? Digital-only retailers are buying high-street brands, not because they think there is a future in physical shops but because they need older customers.
8519, 8328, 8415, 8461, 8472 Why China's economy is less healthy than it looks Chinese GDP figures represent real economic activity, but it is not all productive economic activity.
8519, 8523, 8268, 8445 Are climate campaigners getting too excited about Joe Biden? Questions remain over whether the US president can get his ambitious climate agenda through Washington's legislative gridlock. Dave Keating and Justin Gerdes, Energy Monitor
8519 Joe Biden and the US media's fight to restore objective truth After four years of Donald Trump, just one in ten Republicans says they trust the media.
8519, 8300, 8302 How blockchain technology could support democracy In the wake of a bitter US election and as votes become more vulnerable to dispute, the technology behind Bitcoin could offer a more secure and open democratic process.
8300, 8455, 8415, 8457, 8458 Could the UK’s Covid-19 vaccine approach become a global standard? There is reason to believe that a single dose of the vaccine provides high protection against coronavirus. By Harry Lambert
8268, 8275, 8415, 8457, 8458 Leader: An avoidable catastrophe The UK’s tragic Covid-19 death toll of 100,000 reflects disastrous political failures. By New Statesman
8268, 8387, 8415, 8457, 8458 How Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is proving a nightmare for UK businesses By Martin Fletcher
8268, 8275 How do you solve a problem like Marcus Rashford? The Tories are struggling to find the answer Downing Street was blindsided by the Manchester United player’s campaigning against food poverty last summer and has been racing to catch up ever since. By Stephen Bush
8444 Crumbling Britain: How vital support for carers is being cut during the Covid-19 pandemic The loss of a service for unpaid carers in Tower Hamlets, east London, reveals how austerity is still scuppering Britain’s recovery. By Anoosh Chakelian
8268, 8275, 8415, 8457, 8458 Why Boris Johnson’s Conservatives will struggle to adapt to the Biden era By Paul Mason
8277, 8279, 8415, 8422, 8475 The ghosts of Mark Fisher How the cultural critic, four years after his death, became one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our times. By Lola Seaton
8277, 8279, 8415, 8422, 8475 Ramachandra Guha’s The Commonwealth of Cricket: a delightful sporting memoir Guha, one of India’s best-known historians and public intellectuals, is a bona fide cricket obsessive. By Soumya Bhattacharya
8277, 8283 BBC Radio 4’s Bodies explores the human form throughout history Presenter and anatomist Alice Roberts describes the series as a “time-travelling tour” of “how anatomical knowledge has changed”. By Anna Leszkiewicz
8277, 8282, 8515, 8415, 8422, 8490 How Boris Johnson’s government “took a wrecking ball” to the music industry Without an agreement to allow artists to tour visa-free after Brexit, experts say the UK’s cultural life will be decimated. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger
8277, 8280 Pieces of a Woman is an uneven study of parental grief In this story of a home birth gone wrong, director Kornél Mundruczó and screenwriter Kata Wéber reach for effects without quite knowing how to achieve them. By Ryan Gilbey
8277, 8279, 8415, 8422, 8475 The many lives of Jacqueline Wilson The bestselling author reflects on her difficult childhood, meeting her wife and taking on the smug, middle-class world of children’s fiction. By Anna Leszkiewicz
8300, 8302 Why does Big Tech want us to feel nostalgic? Old memories construct our sense of self. But what if the way we remember them is being manipulated? By Eleanor Peake
8268, 8296, 8300 Can robots make good therapists? Stuck at home in lockdown, and with limited access to mental health services, people are turning to chatbots for company, advice and even friendship. By Sophie McBain
8300, 8303, 8415, 8493, 8496, 8457, 8458, 8459, 8416, 8468, 8473 Jimmy Wales: “Wikipedia is from a different era” As the online encyclopedia turns 20, its founder reflects on the internet’s halcyon days. By Ido Vock
8300, 8362, 8415, 8493, 8496, 8457, 8459 It has always been easy for social media firms to pull the plug on extremism Why have the tech giants waited until now to curb the promotion of ideas that lead to violence? By Sarah Manavis
8300, 8362, 8415, 8493, 8495, 8496 Leader: The Big Tech reckoning Twitter and Facebook's action against Donald Trump shows why the tech giants should no longer enjoy the privileges of being publishers without the responsibilities. By New Statesman
8519, 8277, 8279, 8300, 8302 The Road to Conscious Machines is an accessible history of artificial intelligence As the respected computer scientist Michael Wooldridge explains, AI is the story of an effort to impose the order of mathematics on to the messiness of the real world. By Will Dunn
