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The Economist today SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST 2020

Top stories

BRIEFING

President Trump has had real

achievements and a baleful e ect
Three judges, a tax cut, an ever-more-divided nation and an
undrained swamp

Related → Why it has to be Biden

BRIEFING

President Trump’s
criticisms of the world
order had some merit
But he has left it in worse shape
than he found it

Highlights

BUSINESS

Samsung after Lee Kun-hee

The death of its patriarch leaves South Korea’s biggest
conglomerate with familiar challenges

THE AMERICAS

Thousands of Brazilian
politicians are changing
racial identities
Some candidates do so more than
once

Daily chart

Week in charts: Decision

time in America
Britons’ extended furlough • Covid-
19 and demography • The world’s
best banker? • Green venture
capital

From our columnists Moreover

UNITED STATES BOOKS & ARTS

Lexington: Battle-hymn of Exorcism has a long and

the Never Trumpers spooky history
Renegade Republicans represent Demand surged after the release of
the breadth—and the admirable “The Exorcist” in 1973
best—of Joe Biden’s coalition

More on the US 2020 elections

LEADERS

Why it has to be Biden

Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to
the world

UNITED STATES

Donald Trump’s record on

corruption and con icts-
of-interest
Plain venality in the Trump
administration has been bad; the
sleaze that weakens institutions
has been worse

UNITED STATES

An assessment of the president’s trade policy

Forecasting the US elections

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the US 2020 elections

Weekly edition

Why it has to be
Joe Biden
OCTOBER 31ST 2020

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→ Baby boom, baby bust

→ Green venture capital

→ What Rishi got wrong

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FINANCE & ECONOMICS

Can too many brainy

people be a dangerous
thing?

INTERNATIONAL

Illegal shing eets

plunder the oceans

Graphic detail

Italian towns hit hardest by covid-19 are

doing better now
Municipal data reveal signs of partial population-level immunity

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MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

How covid-19 hinders the ght against

malaria
And how health workers are heroically adapting

INTERNATIONAL

The pandemic may be

leading to fewer babies in
rich countries
And perhaps more in poor ones

EUROPE

A second wave of covid-19 sends much of Europe back

into lockdown

ASIA

The pandemic has exposed South-East Asia’s poor

governance

Special report: The world economy

The peril and the promise

The covid-19 pandemic will accelerate change in the world economy. That
brings both opportunity and danger, says Henry Curr

→ Changing places → Zoom and gloom

The pandemic will not end The transition to remote work is
globalisation, but it will reshape it welcome. But it will be painful

→ Survival of the fittest → The eternal zero

Could the pandemic leave markets The pandemic will leave a legacy of
more concentrated? even lower interest rates—and even
higher asset prices

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