United States

Not for sale
How much does a few billion dollars get you in 2020?

If you’re the Democratic Party, not much at all

Shadow business
America’s intelligence agencies prepare for life after Trump

Repairing their reputation with sources and allies is not their biggest challenge

Shell collecting
Congress edges closer to cracking-down on anonymous shell corporations

America’s laws have made money-laundering too easy. That looks set to change

Lexington
Jake Sullivan to the rescue

What to expect from Jake Sullivan, the Democrats’ foreign-policy golden boy

Senior social-media editor at The Economist

We’re hiring for a job vacancy based in New York

Losing count
Trump’s plan to shift congressional seats reaches the Supreme Court

His attempt to exclude millions of immigrants from population tables may benefit the Republicans in the House of Representatives

Grabbing a cold one
America will be the first country to roll out a covid-19 vaccine

Here is how the federal government and states plan to do it

The view from the ICU
The Midwest is America’s covid-19 hotspot

The disease is killing more than 550 people there every day

Miss gender
A book on transitioning girls is denounced as transphobic

Abigail Shrier has written the first book-length study of a fascinating phenomenon, yet it has been widely ignored