The world will emerge from 2020 into an era of more intense great-power competition. The spread of covid-19 has coincided with, and to an extent exacerbated, escalating tensions between China and ...

But for the economic slump caused by the pandemic and the consequent temporary drop in greenhouse-gas emissions, the warming climate might have been on the cover more often than three times (May ...

The “90% economy” thus created will be, by definition, smaller than that which came before. But its strangeness will be more than a matter of size.

But then, in 2020, came another polling meltdown. In gauging the national popular vote, pollsters had their largest miss in 40 years. And their errors were no longer concentrated in the Rust Belt ...

F OR DECADES America’s fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they ...

By Leo Mirani: senior Britain correspondent, The Economist. ... No doubt 2020 will be chiefly remembered for the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. Yet here, too, the year gets short shrift.

The argument for Mr Trump bucking history rests on an assumption that he will shift his bully-pulpit to the disaggregated conservative media. With Twitter growing less tolerant of his ...

Before covid-19 the big economic shocks of the 21st century—the rise of China, ... But 2020 could be the start of an era in which populism wobbles while economic policymaking escapes from a rut.

Our first interactive chart shows how firms’ ratings compare with those of others in their industry on agility, leadership, ...

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Zanny Minton Beddoes: Editor-in-chief, The Economist This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition of The World in 2021 under the headline “After the crisis, opportunity” Share ...

Economists worry that current economic pessimism will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Although a despondent public would have been a grave warning sign before the pandemic, since 2020 the mix ...