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No longer his generals
America’s top brass break with Donald Trump

The president’s threat to send the troops into American cities alarms commanders
 
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Free to read | All bets are off
Covid-19 has driven American gamblers online

With casinos shut and sports disrupted, gambling addicts have still got their fix
 
 
Free exchange
Japan probes the limits of economic policy

Including loan guarantees, fiscal support this year will amount to 40% of GDP
 
 
Daily chart
A nine-year-old aims to be the youngest chess grandmaster ever

The prodigy, whose family fled Boko Haram, is climbing the ranks amid an internet chess boom
 
 
Break time
The pandemic is hurting China’s Belt and Road Initiative

How will Xi Jinping’s biggest project survive?
 
 
“You can’t just say ‘please’”
How Ugandan feminists make themselves heard

Asking nicely will not stop sexism, some say
 
 
Palaeo-musicology
The lost instruments of Teotihuacan will soon be heard again

An ancient city is about to have its “soundscape” recorded
 
 
The Intelligence
Black Lives Matter protests spread far beyond America

Also on the daily podcast: why the covid-19 recession is hitting women hardest, and the video-games industry goes retro
 

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