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August 20th 2020
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Presidential cronies

Steve Bannon is arrested for fraud

Yet another of Donald Trump’s former aides is in trouble


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How viruses shape the world

They don’t just cause pandemics

Lexington

Democrats set factionalism aside for the big push against Donald Trump

How long will party unity hold?

Daily chart

How has the pandemic changed working lives?

A study concludes: more meetings, more emails, longer hours

Hanging on, for now

Aleksandr Lukashenko is trying to beat protesters into submission

Belarus’s dictator hopes for Russian support and European indifference

Silicon Valley v Wall Street

The IPO is being reinvented

Tech firms are taking advantage of frothy stockmarkets to experiment with new ways to go public. Good

Of monsters and men

“Lovecraft Country” reinvigorates horror and science-fiction tropes

The series follows three African-Americans on a roadtrip in the Jim Crow era

The Economist Asks: Bill Gates

What will it take to defeat the coronavirus?

This week we speak to Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and, via the Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropists, about the fight against covid-19

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