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The rules of the tech game are changing

A new phase in the global tech contest is under way

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Tech giants’ fiefs are no longer as safe as they used to be

Finance & economics

Why the sacking of Petrobras’s boss spooked markets

It suggests that in Brazil liberal reforms are falling further down the agenda

Science & technology

DNA from Neanderthals affects vulnerability to covid-19

One genetic legacy is protective. Another is harmful

Britain

Counting the cost of Brexit’s impact on trade

The government talks of teething troubles, but the red tape is here to stay

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Republicans introduce a torrent of new laws to restrict voting

There are nearly seven times as many such proposals in state legislatures as there were a year ago

Finance & economics

Buttonwood: Why Cathie Wood is the fund manager of the moment

Her hunt for the big business winners of the future holds mass appeal

1843 magazine

Weapons of mass obstruction: protest symbols, from rubber ducks to pussyhats

Demonstrators can turn everyday objects into emblems of discontent

Covid and education

International

Covid-19 has persuaded some parents that home-schooling is better

Some plan to carry on even after the pandemic

Europe

Covid-19 school closures are widening Europe’s class divisions

And it will only get worse

United States

Why America has done such a poor job of keeping schools open

How a cocktail of knee-jerk partisanship, local control and Donald Trump have conspired against school-age children

China

Covid-19 disrupts China’s rise as a destination for foreign students

Africans appreciate China’s low fees and relatively high standards—but are shut out

Weekly edition

Tech’s big dust-up

February 27th 2021
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Leaders

How America can rid itself of both carbon and blackouts

This is the moment for an ambitious attempt to deal with climate change

United States

What their chosen reading says about America’s far-right

Neo-Nazis and Trumpist radicals have a growing corpus of literature

Europe

Putin and Erdogan have formed a brotherhood of hard power

But the bond is brittle

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The same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places

Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant

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Leaders

The Spactacular boom on Wall Street

Are SPACs a useful innovation, a mania, or both?

Finance & economics

What the SPAC craze means for tech investing

Signs of the craze are as common as sightings of unicorns in Silicon Valley

Finance & economics

Bitcoin crosses $50,000

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What is the fuss over central-bank digital currencies?

Special report: The future of travel

What will travel look like after the pandemic?

Covid-19 has brought international travel to a standstill. But it will recover and may even become a better experience, says Simon Wright

Could covid-19 shake up air travel for the better?

Governments’ re-entry into airlines may spur more competition

How today’s reviled airlines could become greener

The pandemic has drawn attention to the environmental damage caused by air travel

Business travel may never fully recover from covid-19

Business class was late to the game. It might be early to leave too

The pandemic has hurt corporate jets less than commercial ones

The wealthy are not bound by airline schedules

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