The Economist - USA (2020-11-07)

The EconomistNovember 7th 2020 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 America’s election

When every vote counts

14 War in the Horn

Ethiopia unravels

14 Financial markets

Fixing the plumbing

15 Secularism and Islam

Voltaire’sheirs

16 5Gtechnology

Opensesame

Letters

18 Onnature,theArctic,

JohnKennedy,Taiwan,

culture,capitalists,

Berlin,Albanians

Briefing

20 Covid-19inEurope

Therelapse

United States

23 Hello, 46

25 A divided Congress

26 Polling error redux

26 Election lawsuits

27 Governors’ races and

ballot initiatives

28 LexingtonWhat now

forTrumpism?

The Americas

29 Canadian jobs come back

30 E-commerce in the

rainforest

32 Bello Stunted

philanthropy

Asia

33 Elections in Myanmar

35 Bigger than K-pop

36 BanyanKiwis vote for

the right to die

China

37 Aiming to deglobalise

39 ChaguanWho cares who

leads America?

Middle East & Africa

40 Conflict in Ethiopia

41 Bobi Wine’s meteoric

rise in Uganda

42 Bad elections in Africa

43 The Arab debt toll

44 The tales of Robert Fisk

BagehotThe Labour

leader needs not just

prescience and

competence, but also

“the vision thing”,

page 52

On the cover

What the 2020 results say
about America’s future:
leader,page 13and analysis,
pages 23-27.Donald Trump has
transformed his party. But
how will he influence it now?
Lexington,page 28

• Europe’s second covid-19 wave
  Many countries are returning to
  some sort of lockdown. This
  time they will have to do better
  when they emerge: briefing,
  page 20. A minority of people
  with covid-19account for the
  bulk of transmission: graphic
  detail, page 79


• Back to bloodshed in Ethiopia
  Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed may
  be starting a civil war. He should
  stop and talk: leader, page 14
  and analysis, page 40


• Treasuries: a market in need
  of a fixA well-functioning
  Treasury market is crucial.
  Time to fix how it works: leader,
  page 14. Why the bond market
  might keep America’s next
  president up at night, page 62

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