The social safety net in many rich countries was creaking before covid-19 struck. Modelled on the ideas of Otto von Bismarck and William Beveridge, it had often failed to cushion workers from globalisation and technological and social change. In 1999...
Leaders 社论板块 Bouncing back 重整旗鼓 How to make a social safety net for the post-covid world 如何构建疫情后时代的社会保障系统 After the Depression and the second world war, voters and governments in rich countries recast t...
Las Vegas Sands, founded by the late Sheldon Adelson, reached an agreement to sell the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas to private-equity and property investors for more than $6bn. The investors are taking a punt that Sin City will rebound when COVID-19 r...
Indeed, judged by the criteria of 2013, emerging markets today look far less fragile than they once were. Inflation is lower (only 1.4% in Indonesia) and exchange-rate valuations have cheapened up considerably, says Mr Lord. Their current accounts ar...
Rules in other industries often lack consistency. Early in the pandemic, cruise ships helped to spread the disease. The Saga cruise line, which targets elderly travellers, is now insisting that passengers produce proof of vaccination, but makes no su...
Business 商业版块 Bartleby A shot in the dark 巴托比职场专栏无根据的瞎猜 How far should fi?rms go to get their staff? vaccinated? 为了让员工接种疫苗,企业还要走多远? The pandemic is throwing up a new set of ethical...
Yet what is possible in public health is not always so easy in national security. Western intelligence agencies must contend with laws governing how private data may be gathered and used. In its paper, GCHQ says that it will be mindful of systemic bi...
Those included all the parts, and they were few enough, customarily assigned to black actors. While the men were con-men, hustlers or drug addicts, the women were plump maids or prostitutes, Jezebels or Aunt Jemimas. 这些角色包括所有的角色,...
Of that she already had plenty. She showed it most memorably on the day in 1963 when she went into Shalimars barber shop in Harlem and asked to have her sleek bob cut away. For a while she had practised hairdressing herself, wielding her hot comb and...
Obituary Cicely Tyson 讣告 西西莉泰森 Beauty and defiance 佳人绝世而独立 Cicely Tyson, actress, died on January 28th, aged 96 女演员西西莉泰森于1月28日去世,享年96岁 Slowly, with infinite effort, the elderly black woman...