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Coronavirus briefs • To 6am GMT Jul 1st 2›21
The world this week
The real risk to America’s democracy • Partisan election administration is a greater worry than voter suppression
The long goodbye • The pandemic is still far from over, but glimpses of its legacy are emerging
Mercury rising • How to protect people from the growing threat posed by extreme heat
Code red • Hong Kong’s regulator is right to be wary of finance with Chinese characteristics
A vote of confidence • Britain should encourage the 5m Europeans who want to settle to become citizens
Letters
Coats of many colours • Evolution has complicated the covid-19 pandemic by providing a growing range of viral variants. They make global action yet more urgent
Razing Arizona • PHOENIX
Border disorder • DALLAS
The truth is not out there • The government comes clean on UFOS
There goes the neighbourhood • What gets lost when national politics eats everything
Serve the people • MIAMI
Searching for the truth • VANCOUVER
Mestizaje, reality and myth • The demand to revise Latin America’s national identities
Taking back control • Kim Jong Un rediscovers his love of central planning
Meet the Dravidian Stalin • DELHI
Return to sento • TOKYO
Schrödinger’s government • Malaysia’s democracy gets a boost from an unlikely quarter
Hindustani at heart • Indians of different religions are more alike than they may think
Carry that weight • China has big plans for its aircraft-carriers. It is fast learning how to use them
Giving up, lying down • HONG KONG
It works until it doesn’t • Citizens cheer the Communist Party’s 100th birthday, but its legitimacy rests on narrow pillars
Third time unlucky • JOHANNESBURG
Another kind of capture • JOHANNESBURG
Defeat in the mountains • What the rout of Ethiopia’s army means for the region
Sisi sees an opportunity • GAZA CITY
Kitchen inconsequential • DUBAI
Shifting the balance • Turkey’s new German submarines are riling Greece
Unsustained development goals • Development assistance rises, but not by much
Darkness shrouds the mountain • PODGORICA
Mr Europe • Our erstwhile Brussels correspondent died on June 24th, aged 90
Politics by other means • Why football can never escape politics at the European championship
The five million • Britain is much more European than anybody thought. At some point politicians will notice that
Opposites attract • Even as lockdowns ease, protests are going strong
The comeback kid • The toughest problem facing Sajid Javid as health secretary is a looming social-care crisis
The attention recession • People have spent a year glued to screens, but now the media boom is turning to bust
A hybrid new world • Post-pandemic work is here. And it is messy
Edifice complexities • SAN FRANCISCO
The perils of PR • Companies can get sucked in to spending too much on their image
Curtain-raiser • Cannes kicks off a brighter blockbuster season. Backstage, things look bleaker
Is Facebook a monopolist? • SAN FRANCISCO
Raining on the parade • The risks of writing blank cheques to a cloud-computing oligopoly
Lives v livelihoods • Lockdowns have become an essential tool for coping…