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Are governments following the science on covid-19?

According to a new survey, many scientists believe they are being ignored

Déjà vu all over again
Once again, less-educated whites spurned America’s Democratic nominee

Polls incorrectly predicted that Joe Biden would claw back some of his party’s losses with this group

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America’s urban-rural partisan gap is widening

Without reforms to its winner-take-all system, this trend will continue to benefit Republicans

Power of inequality
A minority of people with covid-19 account for the bulk of transmission

In two Indian states 10% of people caused 60% of subsequent infections

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American business and the election

Covid resurgent • China’s new tack • global economic gloom • African trouble

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Wall Street welcomes more partisan gridlock in Washington

Investors seem to like lower taxes more than the promise of bigger spending

Joe Biden beats Donald Trump
The US 2020 election results

The Economist’s breakdown of the votes for the president, Senate and House of Representatives

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Europe’s second wave of covid-19 is beginning to resemble the first

Further lockdowns are intended to avert thousands more deaths

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The swing states that will help predict the election outcome

If Donald Trump loses Florida, his re-election hopes are all but over

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The Republican Party has lurched towards populism and illiberalism

Its rhetoric now resembles that of Europe’s most extreme parties

The valleys of the shadow of death
Italian towns hit hardest by covid-19 are doing better now

Municipal data reveal signs of partial population-level immunity