The Economist - USA (2020-11-28)

The EconomistNovember 28th 2020 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

11 Democracy

How resilient is it?

12 Covid-19 and business

What doesn’t kill you

13 Ethiopia

Preventing war crimes

13 Fiscal stimulus

Therightdiscipline

14 Thepandemicandexams

Papers,please

15 AgricultureinBritain

Ploughingitsownfurrow

Letters

16 Oncovid-19testing,

Germany,women’s

suffrage,freespeech,

rockstars,Singapore,

trains,bitcoin

Briefing

18 DemocracyinIndia

Subcontinentaldrift

United States

21 Rolling out the vaccines

22 Covid-19 in the Midwest

23 Team Biden

24 Gender wars

25 Obscure laws

26 LexingtonThe end of

theembarrassment

The Americas

27 Venezuela

28 Diego Maradona dies

30 BelloThe future of

Bolsonarismo

Asia

31 South Korea’s prosecutors

32 Tamils in Sri Lanka

33 Singapore’s crime wave

33 India, Pakistan

and Kashmir

34 BanyanAustraliav China

China

35 Barriers to Sinology

36 A hit dating-show

37 ChaguanLessons from a

patriotic businessman

Middle East & Africa

39 American sanctions

40 Israel and Saudi Arabia

41 Riots in Uganda

41 Nigeria’s cash clash

42 Migration from Africa

BanyanAustralia learns

the hard way about facing

China’s wrath, page 34

On the cover

Although it has been in
recession, democracy contains
the seeds of its own recovery:
leader,page 11. A power-
hungry prime minister
threatens to turn India into a
one-party state: briefing,
page 18. The assumption that
Republicans will remain in
thrall to Donald Trump could
be misplaced: Lexington,
page 26

• America’s vaccine roll-out
  planWhat the federal
  government and states have in
  mind, page 21.The latest
  anti-covid-19 vaccine, page 69


• Better, greener farming in
  BritainOutside the EU, farmers
  can plough their own furrow:
  leader, page 15. A bold attempt
  to change British agriculture
  runs into two problems: politics
  and sheep, page 52


• Covid-19’s corporate winners
  and losersHas the pandemic
  made incumbent firms stronger?
  Page 12. How social distancing is
  changing the business of getting
  people together, page 57

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