The Econmist - USA (2021-10-30)

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Contents

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On the cover

The world this week

13 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

17 Climate change

cop-out

18 Coups in Africa

With a putsch and a shove

18 American taxes

Capital pains

20 Chinese women

Clouds over the sky

22 Decentralised finance

The fun in non-fungible

Letters

28 On food technologies, Top

Glove, malarial bednets,

Poland, liberals, email

Briefing

29 Migration in Africa

Continental odyssey

Special report:

Stabilising the climate

The debate

After page 50

Britain

33 Big-state Conservatism

34 Happy entrepreneurs

35 Britain’s battery bonanza

35 The minimum wage

38 A contentious chicken

38 Taking on the taxman

40 Bagehot Green Boris

Europe

43 Erdogan under pressure

44 Fencing the eu’s borders

46 Serbia’s military build-up

46 French acronyms

48 Russia’s Communists

50 Charlemagne Nuclear

Europe

United States

51 The Democrats’ future

52 Virginia’s close contest

53 Police reform

54 Police v vaccine mandates

54 Hippos and animal rights

55 Decriminalising sex work

56 Lexington No one loves

Joe Biden

The Americas

57 Chile’s troubles

58 Crypto in Cuba

59 BelloFixing prices

Middle East & Africa

60 Another coup in Sudan

61 Learning clicks online

62 The un‘s big spenders

63 Countering Iran

64 Bennett v Bibi in Israel

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BagehotBoris Johnson

is gung-ho about climate

change—perhaps too

much so for his new

voters, page 40

Why Glasgow will be a
disappointment. And why it
will nonetheless be crucial:
leader,page 17.Our special
report on stabilising the
climate,after page 50.Nuclear
energy once bound Europe
together. Now it is dividing the
club: Charlemagne,page 50.
As fuel prices spike,
governments reach for the
dirtiest tool in the box,page 83

Sunak, the big-state
ConservativeBritain’s budget
marks a turn back to
government spending, page 33.
The Tories roll out the red carpet
for entrepreneurs and their
investors, page 34. Britain’s
minimum wage is catching up
with pre-pandemic ambitions,
page 35

Fun with non-fungible tokens
Our nftauction reveals the
promise of decentralised
finance—as well as some big
problems: leader, page 22,and
analysis, page 82

How to make vaccine
passports workWhy the world
cannot agree on regulating travel
in the pandemic, page 73

In praise of a pyjama
revolutionRemote-first work is
taking over the rich world.
A growing body of research hints
at why: Free exchange, page 86

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