The fire this time: Police violence, race and protest in America
The world this week
Leaders
The fire this time
Police violence, race and protest in America
Will protesters in American cities bring progress, or set back the cause they champion?
Conduit’s end
Can Hong Kong remain a conduit between China and the world?
Its future as a financial centre depends on nothing less
The other three-quarters
The pandemic is still gathering pace in most of the world
But there is lots that countries can do to curb it
Tomorrow’s problem
Don’t worry about inflation—yet
Monetary stimulus is unlikely to spark sustained price rises while labour markets remain depressed
Orbital liberties
SpaceX is making human space travel a routine form of commerce
And a model of public-private partnership
Letters
On public debt, Vitamin D, the BBC, clock dials, lists of three, globalisation
Letters to the editor
Briefing
The paths of destruction
How SARS-CoV-2 causes disease and death in covid-19
There are direct routes and indirect ones
Asia
Voice of treason
The Thai government tries new ways to curb online critics
Haunted by Gwangju
South Korea debates a massacre of 40 years ago
Viral marketing
Indonesia’s president has a new rival
United States
Order above the law
How to fix American policing
Measuring racial progress in America
Segregation and poverty have declined among blacks since 1968
Introducing the G11
Donald Trump is right that the G7 needs updating. But what for?
Alaska welcomes hooligans
In praise of the tiny, oily candlefish
Lexington
Far worse than Nixon
Middle East & Africa
The invisible outbreak
Covid-19 quietly sweeps across Yemen
Streets with no rage
Algeria’s protest movement considers how and when to come back
No rain, slow gains
In the dry season, Nigeria’s army puts Boko Haram on the back foot
“You can’t just say ‘please’”
How Ugandan feminists make themselves heard
A borrowers’ catch-22
African governments face a wall of debt repayments
The Americas
Cracked crown
Canada’s Conservative contenders
Medellín’s medical marvel
How Colombia’s second-largest city is controlling the pandemic
Europe
Disparate impact
Covid-19 threatens Europe’s success at fighting inequality
Raising the floor
Spain’s embattled government proposes a new anti-poverty scheme
Hitting the poorest hardest
Italy’s informal workers fall back on charity
Time for a reboot
France’s President Emmanuel Macron mulls a reshuffle
Social distancing and prostitution
Germany helps sex workers idled by covid-19
Barbarians at the gates
Slovenia’s prime minister hunts for enemies
Strength in numbers
What Turkey got right about the pandemic
Britain
Ignore the squabbling
Devolution has become less dysfunctional during the pandemic
A warm(ish) welcome
Britain opens its doors to Hong Kongers
A risky reopening
England emerges from lockdown
Your own personal Jesus
Online services swell the Church of England’s congregations
Parliamentary procedure
The British government shows how not to return to work
Making history
How British museums are documenting the pandemic
International
Return of the paranoid style
Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?
The moderator’s dilemma
Donald Trump has reignited a debate about regulating speech online
Business
What’s mine is yours
The sharing economy will have to change
Floating not drowning
Companies are still raising cash by floating
Command & reconquer
The video-games industry raids its back catalogue
A tale of two social networks
Twitter and Facebook have differing business models
Part of the furniture
The boss of IKEA on dealing with the fallout of the covid crisis
Finance & economics
Hong Kong’s uncertain future
Can Hong Kong remain a global financial centre?
Counting the cost
America’s public-pension funding crisis worsens
Prudence in the pandemic
Americans saved a record chunk of their incomes in April
Social climbing
ESG investors get their heads around social risks
This time is different
Downturns tend to reduce gender inequality. Not under covid-19
Free exchange
Japan probes the limits of economic policy
Science & technology
The shape of things to come
The Crew Dragon mission is a success for SpaceX and for NASA
The fires within the deep
Have Siberian fires been smouldering underground all winter?
Palaeo-musicology
The lost instruments of Teotihuacan will soon be heard again
Culture
A quarantine rhapsody
For Alexander Pushkin, lockdown was liberating
Hearts of gold
Are humans innately good? Rutger Bregman thinks so
The floor lines of beauty
The first big art show of the covid era is a vision of the future
Home Entertainment
For Hayao Miyazaki, flight is a metaphor for freedom
Home Entertainment
Jane Eyre, like many people, is at her best alone
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Out in the open
Democracies contain epidemics most effectively
Obituary
The life pressed out