The Economist - USA (2020-04-04)

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 United States 21 2 What is baffling is how debate about holding the vote has dragged on. Officially ...

22 United States The EconomistApril 4th 2020 T he officialhymn of the United States Marine Corps, a jaunty tune written by Jacqu ...

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 United States 23 T homas jefferson’sdictum that good governance comes “not by the consolidation or c ...

24 TheEconomistApril 4th 2020 1 I t was, insistedWilliam Barr, the United States attorney-general, “good timing”. Amid the covid ...

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 The Americas 25 22 1 two patients with covid-19. With disaster looming, the regime and the oppositio ...

26 The Americas The EconomistApril 4th 2020 2 Bello Wisdom and witlessness S ince he tookover as Peru’s president two years ago ...

TheEconomistApril 4th 2020 27 1 W here do youbelong? This is not a metaphysical question. For English- speaking Indians, “belong ...

28 Asia The EconomistApril 4th 2020 2 M in kyaw theinis just 26, but he has a commanding presence. In his home in a suburb of Ya ...

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 Asia 29 D espite coups, floods and mass pro- tests, visitors have flocked to Thailand in recent deca ...

30 Asia The EconomistApril 4th 2020 1 I t was love at first like. When Natta Reza, a dashing Indonesian busker, discovered the y ...

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 Asia 31 2 Banyan The drifters B arely two weeks ago, the notion that Tokyo’s summer Olympic games sh ...

32 TheEconomistApril 4th 2020 1 D uring the recent peak of covid-19 cases in China, large metal shelving- units appeared at entr ...

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 China 33 2 nese cities. Young workers from villages were once largely invisible to urban resi- dents ...

34 China The EconomistApril 4th 2020 M arco polois a surprisingly dodgy role model for writers on China. Seven centuries have pa ...

TheEconomistApril 4th 2020 35 1 M ichael smelledtrouble before he saw it. In January the 28-year-old from Bilibiza, in the north ...

36 Middle East & Africa The EconomistApril 4th 2020 2 province’s Swahili- or Mwani-speaking Muslims from opportunities in bo ...

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 Middle East & Africa 37 1 D uring apartheid in South Africa, policemen who wanted to control cro ...

38 Middle East & Africa The EconomistApril 4th 2020 2 T hiswastobetheweekwhenBinyamin Netanyahu,theprimeministerofIsra- el,f ...

TheEconomistApril 4th 2020 39 1 T he tgvbullet-train that pulled out of Strasbourg railway station on the morning of March 26th ...

40 Europe The EconomistApril 4th 2020 2 1 Marseille. Neighbouring countries have also taken patients from eastern France. France ...