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Green investing has shortcomings

The financial system and climate change

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How much can financiers do about climate change?

China

China’s next move in the South China Sea

Is it about to claim the skies above it?

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Leaders

Cargo ship crews are stuck at sea

A crewing crisis

Business

A peek inside JAB Holding

One of Europe’s biggest family-owned companies is also among its most taciturn

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United States

Lexington: America rediscovers the joys of vegetable-growing

A shovel-ready project

Daily chart

Week in charts: Britain’s bungling of the pandemic

The rickety world order • China and India come to blows • Mighty, vulnerable Amazon • Uncomfortable luxury

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Books & arts

A brilliant Goth’s-eye view of the sack of Rome

History is written by the winners—unless the losers are more literate

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The pandemic has shown just how essential Jeff Bezos’s firm has become—and that it has vulnerabilities

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Asia

India and China have their first deadly clashes in 45 years

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How SARS-CoV-2 causes disease and death in covid-19

United States

America’s Supreme Court protects LGBT workers against discrimination

Graphic detail

Fighting in the Sahel has forced 1.7m people from their homes

Jihadists are only partly to blame

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In context: The future of cities

Leaders

Great cities after the pandemic

How much harm has covid-19 done to large Western cities?

Briefing

Covid-19 challenges New York’s future

Cities around the world, take heed

Books & arts

The coronavirus might not change cities as much as previous pandemics

Europe

Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality

Special report: The new world disorder

Global leadership is missing in action

Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the peace even as they fought the war. Today’s leaders need to do something similar, says Daniel Franklin

Who runs the world?

As America gets tired, China gets busy

The UN has too much on its plate

Missions impossible

The clock is ticking for nuclear arms control

Avoidable Armageddon

The UN’s structures built in 1945 are not fit for 2020, let alone beyond it

Grand redesigns

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