A dangerous gap: The markets v the real economy

The world after covid-19

Margaret MacMillan on covid-19 as a turning point in history

Superpowered insults

There is less trust between Washington and Beijing than at any point since 1979

Plutocracy

Have the top 0.1% of Americans made out like bandits since 2000?

The ninth innings

Steve King, Iowa’s most noxious politician, looks vulnerable

Watchdogs in the doghouse

Donald Trump’s war on inspectors general

Going rogue

America’s Supreme Court considers the rights of “faithless” presidential electors

Social experiments

ASAP is more important than affirmative action

Lexington

Ode to the shopping mall

Hungry house

Nayib Bukele’s power grab in El Salvador

The synonymous crown affair

As cases of coronavirus grow, what about cases of Corona beer?

Bello

Antonio Di Benedetto and the Latin American condition

Bargain abatement

Vietnam and the Indian state of Kerala curbed covid-19 on the cheap

Bye-bye Nazarbayeva

A Kazakh politician with a pedigree unexpectedly loses her job

Gunmen with thermometers

The Taliban are joining Afghanistan’s fight against covid-19

Blank screen

A Philippine broadcaster is forced off the air

In the doghouse

Thais seem ever less impressed by the army

Hot spot

Sun-shy Indonesians are suddenly soaking up the rays

Banyan

India’s government is better at curbing critics than covid-19

Socialism’s precariat

A slump exposes holes in China’s welfare state

Heaven’s outposts

Near China’s border with Russia, the Orthodox Church regains a toehold

From crisis to crisis

Why protesters firebomb banks in Lebanon

Rays of hope

Arab states are embracing solar power

Alternative medicine

Voodoo priests recommend voodoo to stop covid-19

Desperate times call for accurate measures

Lacking data, many African governments make policy in the dark

Pot of gold

African cannabis growers are on a high

Seeing red

Germany’s highest court takes issue with the European Central Bank

Stop the press

Russia’s leading business paper is being gagged

Uncounted, unseen

Many covid deaths in care homes are unrecorded

Latte to go

Italy, the first country in Europe to enter lockdown, starts to emerge

Istanbully

Turkey investigates those who object to homophobia

Charlemagne

European leaders are appealing directly to voters in other countries

Getting back to work

What will be the new normal for offices?

First orders

How pubs, cinemas and shops will reopen

Scientist and politics

Britain’s government says it is “following the science”. Which science?

Tracing

Why Britain is ignoring the Google-Apple protocol for its tracing app

Conservative Party

Lockdown is making the Tory party restive

Children at risk

How covid-19 puts vulnerable children in greater danger

The press

How the pandemic revived the newspaper stunt

Bagehot

The rise of isolationism in the Conservative Party

Fever when you hold me tight

Casual sex is out, companionship is in

No safe haven

The pandemic may be making domestic abuse worse

International banking

Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance

Global banks

As China goes global, its banks are coming out, too

International currencies

China wants to make the yuan a central-bank favourite

Payment systems

The financial world’s nervous system is being rewired

After covid-19

Can China be trusted to be a responsible financial power?

Acknowledgments

Prognosis: mixed

The pandemic will recast America’s health-care industrial complex

Convalescent

The pandemic is a chance to revamp India’s pharmaceutical industry

Reargardère action

The French establishment closes ranks to help Lagardère

Eyeing the sky

Chinese carriers restart their engines

Cruising for a bruising

Parks and resorts powered Disney’s growth. Then came covid-19

The presenteeism premium

Japanese offices struggle to adapt to social distancing

Bartleby

Don’t stand so close to me

Schumpeter

The buoyant oil traders

Markers marked

Credit-rating agencies are back under the spotlight

Custom of the country

With oil prices depressed, China presides over a buyer’s market

Uppers and downers

A perky stockmarket v a glum economy

Getting on board

Emerging markets launch QE, too

Bright spot

In bleak times for banks, India's digital-payments system wins praise

All worked up

Could the pandemic give America’s labour movement a boost?

Free exchange

Losses by central banks are nothing to fear

Where nature ends

Humanity’s immense impact on Earth’s climate and carbon cycle

Covid-19

Scientific research on the coronavirus is being released in a torrent

Virology

Covid-19 has many faces

Treating covid-19

Two potential therapies for covid-19 have some effect

Road safety

Motorists using touchscreens in cars are being distracted

Crewed space flight

Another step towards returning people to Earth’s satellite

After the intermission

When cinemas reopen they will not be the same

Alive in the long run

The enduring legacy of John Maynard Keynes

A kind of freedom

“Conjure Women” is a tale of slavery and its aftermath

Ghost town

Darran Anderson’s granular memoir of the Troubles

A place on Earth

The ideas of celestial bliss and fiery damnation are powerful ones

Home Entertainment

“Holy Land” and the comforts of suburbia

Home Entertainment

Why and how to bake your way through the lockdown

Daily chart

Disney grew thanks to parks and resorts. Then came covid-19

Rallying round the flag

Covid-19 has given most world leaders a temporary rise in popularity

A midwestern parable

Willie Levi died on April 23rd