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United States

America’s top brass break with Donald Trump

The president’s threat to send the troops into American cities alarms commanders

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Lexington: Far worse than Nixon

United States

Covid-19 has driven American gamblers online

With casinos shut and sports disrupted, gambling addicts have still got their fix

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China

The pandemic is hurting China’s Belt and Road Initiative

How will Xi Jinping’s biggest project survive?

Middle East & Africa

How Ugandan feminists make themselves heard

Asking nicely will not stop sexism, some say

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Finance & economics

Free exchange: Japan probes the limits of economic policy

Including loan guarantees, fiscal support this year will amount to 40% of GDP

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A nine-year-old aims to be the youngest chess grandmaster ever

The prodigy, whose family fled Boko Haram, is climbing the ranks amid an internet chess boom

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Science & technology

The lost instruments of Teotihuacan will soon be heard again

An ancient city is about to have its “soundscape” recorded

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Police violence, race and protest in America

June 6th 2020
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Leaders

The pandemic is still gathering pace in most of the world

Finance & economics

Can private-equity firms turn a crisis into an opportunity?

International

Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?

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Democracies contain epidemics most effectively

People living under freely elected governments have been more responsive to lockdown measures

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In context: Race in America

United States

The black-white wealth gap is unchanged after half a century

How to go about narrowing it

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Poverty in America continues to affect people of colour most

But it is hard to work out which issues are caused by history and which by bad policy

United States

The vulnerability of African Americans to the coronavirus is a national emergency

United States

The grim racial inequalities behind America’s protests

Special report: International banking

Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance

And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas

As China goes global, its banks are coming out, too

European banks are losing their influence

China wants to make the yuan a central-bank favourite

And it is playing a trump card in order to achieve it

The financial world’s nervous system is being rewired

And it is not America that is doing it

Can China be trusted to be a responsible financial power?

There are still a lot of questions that it must answer

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