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Coronavirus briefs • To 6am GMT May 13th 2›21
The world this week
Vaccinating the world • Our model reveals the true course of the pandemic. Here is what to do next
Stopping the cycle • Only negotiations will bring lasting peace
The bottleneck economy • America’s boom is increasing worries about an inflation scare
The wrong sort of conservatism • Boris Johnson wants a big state that crimps civil liberties
End the contortions • Corporate-tax gymnastics have reached Olympic gold-medal levels. Time for new rules
Letters
Counting the dead • Covid-19 has led to between 7m and 13m excess deaths worldwide, according to a model built by The Economist
The insufficient miracle • How can the world increase its vaccine supply?
Uncertainty and the city • NEW YORK
Post-Colonial studies • NEW YORK
The Row row • LOS ANGELES
Shelter in place • NEW JERSEY
The other epidemic • DENVER
The kraken is unleashed • Liz Cheney’s demotion is a death rattle for principled conservatism
A long way down • BOGOTÁ
An old scourge returns • SÃO PAULO
Off the grid • SAN JOSÉ
Next in line • SINGAPORE
Join the (other) queue • SINGAPORE
Endangered hunters • Taiwan’s indigenous tribes have their day in court (and lose)
Let them eat dark chocolate • DELHI
Silent sigh • SEOUL
Malé malaise • In the Maldives, an ominous rise in intolerant Islam
Own goal • SHANGHAI
The puck stops here • China’s ice-hockey team could be in for a difficult Olympic games
Landing ashore • Disillusioned with foreign firms and domestic tech giants, more Chinese want to be officials
The fire this time • JERUSALEM
Prince Charming • Muhammad bin Salman is playing the diplomat. How long will it last?
Finny business • MUKONO
Cloak-and-finger deals • HARGEISA
Stuck in a rut • LAGOS
A revolution and a rematch • PARIS
Battling Borisov • Parliament hears explosive allegations about the outgoing prime minister
Green steel • Plentiful renewable energy is opening up a new industrial frontier
Where did everyone go? • BODRUM
Protection racket • AMSTERDAM AND BUCHAREST
Whatever it took? • A gathering economic recovery shows the European Union can (eventually) learn from mistakes
Winning the peace • Boris Johnson promises a muscular, interventionist state. Now he must deliver it
The end of innocence • New rules to root out electoral fraud may discourage voting
The Chipping Norton reset • CHIPPING NORTON
Slaughter in Ballymurphy • BELFAST
Uneasy rider • The Labour Party is being pulled in different directions by its two main constituencies
The agony of silence • JOHANNESBURG AND PARIS
Elon Musk’s other company • After revolutionising the rocket business, what next for SpaceX?
Mothers of invention • The parallels and differences between two generations of female executives
Uneasy rider • BERLIN
Making money and influencing people • BERLIN
Writ parade • A case against a famous rapper is the latest in a run of copyright claims
Less buck for the bang • NEW YORK
Pay and the pandemic • For some American CEOS, it was as if covid-19 did not...