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Myanmar’s coup turns the clock back a decade

New leader; old problems

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The meaning of Myanmar’s coup

United States

America’s two largest states are fighting covid-19 differently

The results are not as different as might be expected

International

Even before covid-19, nightclubs were struggling

The pandemic has left them fighting for their survival

The Americas

Latin America’s year of elections will test the region’s democracies

The votes are unlikely to add new strongmen to those already in office

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The markets, mad but modern

Brexit, the sequel • Africa and covid-19 • Amazon’s new era • Myanmar and other tyrannies

Britain

Bagehot: How Boris Johnson should spend his political capital

The best model may be a former Labour prime minister, Clement Attlee

Books & arts

Ageing can be cured—and, in part, it soon will be

That is Andrew Steele’s thesis in “Ageless”

Markets

Leaders

The real revolution on Wall Street

High tech meets high finance

Finance & economics

A new epoch for retail investors is just beginning

Technology may soon make markets for all kinds of assets as liquid as the stockmarket

Finance & economics

How WallStreetBets works

The subreddit has already become a subject of study

Finance & economics

Why the WallStreetBets crowd are able to profit from predatory trading

Textbooks say it can’t happen. But there are times when front-running distressed traders pays off

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The real revolution on Wall Street

February 6th 2021
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Business

Can Amazon’s next boss fill Jeff Bezos’s supersized boots?

Andy Jassy will take over a firm on a roll. That does not make dilemmas in his in-tray any easier to deal with

Europe

How Europe dodges responsibility for its vaccine fiasco

When something goes wrong, the blame gets passed around

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Global democracy has a very bad year

The pandemic caused an unprecedented rollback of democratic freedoms in 2020

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What the favourite stocks of r/wallstreetbets have in common

Call-option volume, not short interest, is the best indicator of popularity on Reddit

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Navalny v Putin

Europe

Russia’s regime is weakened by putting Alexei Navalny in jail

President Vladimir Putin’s reputation is tarnished anew

Leaders

The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny

It takes courage to expose the corruption of Vladimir Putin’s regime

Podcasts

Podcast: Navalny arrested on return to Russia

Europe

An interview with Alexei Navalny, assassination survivor

Special report: Generation Xi

Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive

That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent

The gap between China’s rural and urban youth is closing

But it remains large, even as more youngsters return home to the countryside

How nationalism is shaping China’s young

They feel more defensive than ever of their country’s achievements

How to rebel in China

The alternatives are rave or pray

As attitudes to the West sour, China’s students turn home

They think China is best served by picking aspects of Western culture that suit it

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