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The Economist todayFriday, February 28th 2020

News analysis

Bernie Sanders, nominee

The senator from Vermont would present America with a terrible choice

The virus is coming

Governments have an enormous amount of work to do

Highlights

Finance and economics

The European Union’s trade policy will involve some tough negotiations

Is Phil Hogan the person for the job?

Kazakhstan’s president says democracy is on its way

But the riot police seem to have arrived first

From our columnists

Schumpeter: Bob Iger, king of Disneyland

Three lessons from one of Hollywood’s most successful bosses

Daily chart

Countries that have benefited most from globalisation are the most fearful of change

People in slower-growing rich countries are most at ease with it

Moreover

The BBC is taking back control of Eurovision

Britain tries to avoid another musical humiliation

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How the next president should fix America’s student-loan problem

Rodrigo Duterte’s lawless war on drugs is wildly popular

Jeff Bezos wants to help save the climate. Here is how he should do it

Graphic detail

Globalisation has left lower-league football clubs behind

They are mostly based in Brexit-supporting towns

In context: Egypt

Middle East and Africa

Hosni Mubarak, ex-despot of Egypt, died on February 25th

Three suffocating decades in power were ended by revolt

Middle East and Africa

Egypt is reforming its economy, but poverty is rising

Fast growth is not raising the incomes of the poor

Middle East and Africa

The Muslim Brotherhood, the government’s favourite scapegoat

Middle East and Africa

Why many Egyptians miss the Mubarak era

Special report: The data economy

A deluge of data is giving rise to a new economy

Ludwig Siegele asks how it will work

Are data more like oil or sunlight?

The question highlights the many different faces of data

Should data be crunched at the centre or at the edge?

“Edge computing” is on the rise

Integrating data is getting harder, but also more important

The search is on to find “digital truth”

Governments are erecting borders for data

Data sovereignty is rapidly becoming a big issue

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