The Economist: Thursday, December 17, 2020 by The Economist instant download

The Economist: Thursday, December 17, 2020 by The Economist instant download

The world this year
KAL’s cartoon
Covid-19 in 2020: The plague year
Targeting big tech: Credibility gap
Children: Getting girlhood right
The Arab world: Ten years after the spring
Country of the year: Admiration nation
Letters to the editor: On farming, books, aerial combat, Latin, Machiavelli, diversity, Ireland, the turkey
The final Senate races: The decider
Covid-19 in New York: The Holly and the UV
Cyber-security: Bear hunt
Schools and covid-19: Lesson learned
Lexington: Good neighbours
Brazil: Awaiting their fate
Cuba: From distortion to disruption
Expatriates in Asia: Shipping out
Preserving Yangon: In with the old
Banyan: A lonely furrow
Sexual harassment: Refusing to be silent
Human rights: Proxy war
The Arab spring at ten: No cause for celebration
Iran: Go hang
Western Sahara: Heat in the desert
Kidnapping in Nigeria: The lost boys of Kankara
Congo’s gold rush: Beer, brothels and broken dreams
The Vatican’s finances: Falling on hard times
The European Union budget: Locked and loaded
Health care: Flight of the white coats
Azerbaijan’s ghost towns: Bitterness prevails
Charlemagne: Sprechen Sie Tory?
Negotiations with the EU: An extra mile, a narrow path
Brexit-related disruption: Lorrypolitik
Heathrow expansion: Cleared for take-off
Animal welfare: The pet offensive
Bagehot: The wisdom of Scrooge
Waste-pickers: Down in the dumps
Newsletters: Season’s greetings!
Rural France: Fragments from a forgotten valley
Bloodsuckers: History, written by the vectors
Sidney Street: The one that got away
Digital humanities: The book of numbers
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: The Alexander technique
Shingle art: A universe of stones
Essay: Awesome, weird and everything else
Erasmus: Citizen of the world
South Korean mountains: Race to the top
Crossword, etc: Cryptic and coniferous
Quiz: Try our Christmas quiz
Gay rights: A queer old tale
Travels in Zululand: Trust deficit
Extraterrestrial hiking: A short walk in Gale crater
Economies past: Factories and families
Shaolin monastery: The profession of renunciation
Reconstruction: