Combining democracy and mass culture, the format is archetypally American, yet has proved to be highly exportable. Even more people likely watch their own pre-election debates abroad including, with encouragement from Americas non-partisan Commission...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 莱克星顿专栏 The end of the debate 总统辩论的结束 The president turns a globally respected American institution into a national embarrassment 特朗普总统使本来备受推崇的竞选辩论这一美...
Investors appear to be especially keen on downside protection around this election. In September Cameron Crise, a strategist at Bloomberg, wrote that VIX futures markets have never had an event risk command this sort of premium. Even more unusually,...
Almost all this labour, he discovered in Haryanawhich was a hotbed of itwas indentured servitude. The workers were landless Dalits or their children, forced to borrow to pay for medicines or dowries from a local, higher-caste moneylender. The average...
Swami Agnivesh (Vepa Shyam Rao), champion of Indias indentured labourers, died on September 11th, aged 80. 印度契约劳工斗士斯瓦米阿涅维什（韦帕施拉姆拉奥）于9月11日逝世，享年80岁。 The hindu life-stage of sanyasa, or...
Tanzania barred Tundu Lissu, the opposition leader, from campaigning for president for seven days, claiming that his speeches criticising the government were unethical. Elections are on October 28th. Opposition offices have been firebombed. 坦桑尼亚...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Donald Trumps doctors were keeping a close eye on their patient, after the 74-year-old president checked out of hospital just three days after being admitted for treatment for COVID-19. Around 20...
She may be too late. Attendance was declining before covid-19. To distinguish a night at the movies from a night with Netflix, cinemas built snazzy multiplexes with waiters ferrying burgers to viewers lolling in reclining seats. This helped rack up d...
America's presidential election 美国大选 Braced for impact 准备就绪 How investors are hedging against the risk of post-election chaos 投资者如何对冲选举后混乱的风险 Election years are not often the best times for stockmarket in...
She may be too late. Attendance was declining before covid-19. To distinguish a night at the movies from a night with Netflix, cinemas built snazzy multiplexes with waiters ferrying burgers to viewers lolling in reclining seats. This helped rack up d...
Business 商业版块 Cinemas 电影院 Curtains 无法摆脱的困境 Audiences may be ready to return. Will they have anything to watch? 观众们可能已经准备好回归电影院了。那他们有什么影片可看呢？ It is turning out to be...
Labour markets in Europe 欧洲的劳动力市场 Pain relief 已止痛 The successes of furlough schemesand their side effects 休假计划的成功及其负面影响 So impressive is Germany's trading prowess that when the coronavirus pandemic stru...
It multiplies, said Mrs Frey enigmatically, as she walked away. Though she knocked on over 3,000 doors in 2016, she did not seem used to such pushback. Modern campaigns aim canvassers almost exclusively at likely voters for their own side; she had ki...
Northampton County, of which it is the capital, was one of three in Pennsylvania that flipped to the Republicans in 2016, giving Mr Trump the state by a whisker. True to form, the quadrant of four streets around which Lexington accompanied Karen Frey...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 莱克星顿专栏 The battle in miniature 选举之战的缩影 A small town in Pennsylvania depicts a microcosm of the electionand how Americans are handling it 宾夕法尼亚州的一个小镇刻画了美国大选...
