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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

Britain

The feud within the Scottish National Party

It reveals much about how Scotland is governed

Asia

South Korea’s government has failed to make housing cheaper

Voters are not happy

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Fossil fuels may be responsible for twice as many deaths as first thought

Pollution from burning coal, oil and gas kills millions each year. The toll is heaviest in China and India

United States

Lexington: Time to reopen the school gates

America’s failure to get millions of its children back to school is a national fiasco

Books & arts

Kazuo Ishiguro’s rich meditation on love and morality

“Klara and the Sun” is his first novel since winning the Nobel prize

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

Graphic detail

The same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places

Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant

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Russia and Turkey

Europe

Putin and Erdogan have formed a brotherhood of hard power

But the bond is brittle

1843 magazine

Conflict in the Caucasus: when the soldiers are younger than the war they are fighting

Fear and fervour fuel conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Middle East & Africa

Turkey is wielding influence all over the Arab world

Middle East & Africa

Russia’s military gamble in Syria is paying off handsomely

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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