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Illicit fishing devastates the seas and abuses crews

Here’s how to hook the culprits

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Illegal fishing fleets plunder the oceans

Middle East & Africa

Another sham election highlights Egypt’s problems

The country’s rulers are making a mess of politics and business

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United States

Donald Trump and Joe Biden press their mute buttons

But with 49m people having voted already, creditable performances in the final debate probably won’t change much

United States

Who could object to the Equality Act?

A well-intentioned effort by Democrats to protect trans Americans risks discriminating against female Americans

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United States

Lexington: Donald Trump’s effort to sow mistrust is looking like an own-goal

Time spent with North Carolina’s early voters suggests a blue wave is on the way

Daily chart

Week in charts: Follow which science?

Social media under fire • Trump v Biden • Brexit and the City • Fishing woes

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1843 magazine

Movie night at the White House: a century of screenings, decoded

What the leader of the free world watches for fun, from “Birth of a Nation” to “Finding Dory”

The Economist’s forecast of the US 2020 elections

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Weekly edition

Who controls the conversation? Social media and free speech

October 24th 2020
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Science & technology

Should covid be left to spread among the young and healthy?

United States

How the American economy did under Donald Trump

Business

American trustbusters take on Google

Graphic detail

Postal voting could put America’s Democrats at a disadvantage

Rejection rates for absentee ballots have fallen since 2016, but are higher for non-whites than whites

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In context: The plight of the Uyghurs

Leaders

The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity

It is also the gravest example of a worldwide attack on human rights

China

How Xinjiang’s gulag tears families apart

So many parents have been locked up that officials struggle to cope with the left-behind children

1843 magazine

Voices of the diaspora

China

From the archive: A report from Xinjiang

Special report: The world economy

The peril and the promise

The covid-19 pandemic will accelerate change in the world economy. That brings both opportunity and danger, says Henry Curr

Changing places

The pandemic will not end globalisation, but it will reshape it

Zoom and gloom

The transition to remote work is welcome. But it will be painful

Survival of the fittest

Could the pandemic leave markets more concentrated?

The eternal zero

The pandemic will leave a legacy of even lower interest rates—and even higher asset prices

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