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This week’s covers

How we saw the world

Though we publish the same editorials everywhere, we often feature different covers in different editions. But this editor cannot think of a time when the same person has appeared on the cover of more than one edition in a single issue. This week that dubious distinction belongs to Donald Trump—for what is shaping up to be a betrayal of Ukraine (our cover in Europe) and to mark his first whirlwind month in power (our cover everywhere else).

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