Retro or radical issue


The world this week

6 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

11 Joe Biden

Retro or radical?

12 Hong Kong

A safe harbour no more

12 The pandemic

The way we live now

13 Investing in India

Inside game

14 The Nile

Dam bluster

Letters

17 On artificial intelligence,

green investing, GDP,

gardens, working from

home

Briefing

18 Joe Biden

He persisted

The World If

Our annual supplement

of scenarios imagines a

set of different climate

futures

After page 42

Bartleby The rights and

wrongs of management

books on stakeholderism,

page 62

The Economist July 4th 2020

Britain

21 The vaccine race

22 Welcoming Hong Kongers

23 Digging for victory

23 A speedy recovery?

24 Lockdown in Leicester

24 Changing history teaching

25 The toy-soldier boom

26 Bagehot Boris v the

bureaucrats

Europe

27 Putin's phoney

referendum

29 Jail, snail, wail in Turkey

29 French cities vote green

30 Ireland's new government

30 Covid-19 and the Nordics

31 Charlemagne Let expats

vote

Middle East & Africa

32 A showdown over the Nile

33 Malawi's new president

34 Locusts ravage east Africa

35 Where thieves unionise

35 Facebook and autocrats

36 Rap the casbah

United States

37 Donald Trump in a hole

38 Mississippi's flag

39 Hail to the Chief Justice

39 The death-penalty decline

40 The Democratic left

41 Russian bounties

42 Lexington It's messing

with Texas

The Americas

43 AMLO-American summitry

44 The mule train to Cuba

44 Cartagena reconsiders

mass tourism

45 Bello Ecuador's woes


46 Afghanistan, America

and covid-19

47 India hits back at China

48 India's TikTok obsession

49 Rooftop farming in

Singapore

49 Charity in Vietnam

50 Banyan Pakistan and

China

China

51 Crushing Hong Kong

52 The rise of fan groups

53 Chaguan China, the great

uniter of the west

Finance & economics

64 Debt in poor countries

65 Stress-testing banks

66 Investment banking

in China

66 Trade finance goes digital

67 House prices in America

68 Buttonwood Currency

markets

69 Free exchange Latin

America

Science & technology

70 Hydrogen power

73 Phylloxera's roots

International

54 Living with covid-19

business

57 India In's inward turn

58 Meal-delivery wars

59 Airlines change CORSIA

60 The Facebook boycott

60 Nissans new DIan

61 FedEx seeks deliverance

61 Parcel drones

62 Bartleby Stakeholderism

63 Schumpeter The legacy

of Chesapeake

Books & arts

74 The making of Shanghai

and Hong Kong

75 Autocracy in America

76 Secrets and lies

77 Michaela Coel's moment

78 Home Entertainment

In the water with "Jaws"

78 Chekhov in Siberia

Economic & financial indicators

80 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphic detail

81 How speedy lockdowns save lives

Obituary

82 Li Zhensheng, chronicler of Mao's horrors