The Economist Before the election, Donald Trump squeezes the postal service

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August 17th 2020

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POTUS v USPS

Before the election, Donald Trump squeezes the postal service

Deprived of funds, it will struggle to handle mail-in voting

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No drunken sailors

America musters the world’s biggest naval exercise

The drills come as America and China are locking horns across Asia

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Big Tech is the new dividend royalty

Slashed payouts reveal a shifting balance of corporate power

Daily chart

The pressure points in Britain’s food supply chain

A new report reveals weaknesses in the food system’s response to the pandemic

Democracy’s growing pains

In Tunisia, cradle of the Arab spring, protesters want jobs

Nostalgia for the old dictatorship is growing

Seeking scale

Blended finance is struggling to take off

Hopes that it will fill a trillion-dollar financing gap seem far-fetched

Thatcherism

Nigeria’s demand for fancy wigs fuels a global trade

Hair from everywhere adorns Nigerian heads. The posh prefer Peruvian

The Intelligence

“People have good cause to be suspicious that this is not business as usual”—America’s postal debacle

Also on the daily podcast: microfinance in Cambodia, and the cut-rate price of a used jumbo-jet

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