The Economist UK - 29.02.2020

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Contents

The world this week

7 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 Covid-

Gone global

10 Bernie Sanders

America’s nightmare

11 The war in Afghanistan

This way out

11 Argentina and the IMF

New partners, old dance

12 Free speech at work

Woking nine to five

Letters

14 On companies, gender,

Qatar, war, Brexit,

committees

Briefing

15 Covid-

Flattening the curve

Britain

19 The £18bn research

question

20 Heathrow expansion

rejected

21 Farmers’ post-Brexit fears

21 Anti-terror architecture

22 Shooting ranges

23 Falling life expectancy

23 Scotland’s free periods

24 BagehotKeir Starmer

dares to be dull

Europe

25 Terrorism in Germany

26 The scandal of L’Arche

27 Tech in Serbia

27 Austria’s Jews

28 Italy’s troubled steel plant

United States

29 Bernie Sanders and his

world

32 Harvey Weinstein

32 SCOTUS gets busy

33 The invisible wall

34 LexingtonThe primary

problem

The Americas

35 Guyana’s oil riches

36 Keeping Carnival rain-free

38 BelloAMLO’s theatre

Middle East & Africa

39 Another Israeli election

40 Jews who vote for Arabs

40 Hosni Mubarak dies

41 South Africa’s budget

42 Africa’s trade with

America

BartlebyThe wrong way

to give employee

feedback, page 56

On the cover

The virus is coming.
Governments have an
enormous amount of work to
do: leader,page 9. How to
cope with a pandemic:
briefing,page 15. Rethinking
China-only supply chains:
Chaguan,page 50

• Bernie v Trump: an American
  nightmare The senator from
  Vermont would present America
  with a terrible choice: leader,
  page 10.What does his political
  revolution hope to accomplish?
  Page 29. A recipe for a populist
  takeover: Lexington, page 34


• Meet the EU’s trade bruiser
  How the European Union’s trade
  policy is being rebranded,
  page 63


• Woking nine to five
  Companies should be stopped
  from trying to silence their
  employees: leader,page 12.
  But they are increasingly
  worried about what their people
  say—inside and outside the
  office, page 51


• Digital twin of the heart
  Virtual copies of patients’ hearts
  could help doctors diagnose and
  treat cardiac disease,page 65