Europe 欧洲板块 Terrorism in Europe 欧洲恐怖主义 Oh Vienna 噢，维也纳 Despite the horrors in Austria and France, jihadism has declined 尽管奥地利和法国的恐怖主义事件频发，但圣战主义已然走向陨落。 Teeming w...
Policy seems to play a powerful role in explaining the collapse in full-time employment in the east. Despite some recent changes, the policies of unified Germany, like those of the FRG, still assume that women are wives and mothers first. Joint taxat...
Employment in Germany 德国就业 Nature v nurture 先天V后天 Why east and west German women still work vastly different hours? 妇女的工作时长在东德和西德差距为何如此之大？ Scholars are often greatly excited by natural exper...
A committee in Americas House of Representatives accused Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google of exploiting their monopoly power, comparing them to oil and railway tycoons in the 19th century, and recommended sweeping reforms to antitrust laws. That co...
The problem runs deep. A host of negative words and expressions in English contain the modifier black; they are old, and are probably related to a primeval fear of darkness. Nonetheless the constant equation of black with danger or evil can weary bla...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 The IMF urged governments in rich countries to step up spending on investment, pointing out that, even before COVID-19, public-investment-to-GDP ratios were declining. The rates of return from sp...
In all, 25 of the decoys were poached. They told different stories. Some travelled just a few kilometres, with one ending up at a bar 2km away from the nest it was taken from, where its signal abruptly ended. Others went quite a distance. One, for ex...
Books arts 文艺板块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 Justice and just slips 公平与失言 The battle against racist language is too important to trivialise 反对种族主义用语十分重要，不容轻视 Back in 2002 The Economist mused about the ri...
But he did not see a distinction. He had decided early, under the influence of the Arya Samaj movement and the works of Gandhi and Marx, that his dharma or spiritual duty was to go among the poor, serving them. He called this Vedic socialism; and tho...
Science and technology 科技板块 Conservation 保护 How to prepare poached eggs 对付偷蛋人 A tracking device may help stop the robbery of turtles' nests 一种追踪装置或许可以阻止海龟巢穴被盗 Turtles have a problem. They are...
The Epic case may hinge on how the court defines the relevant market. In Apples eyes the App Store is part of a broader universe of digital platforms in which it can reasonably claim not to be a monopolist. Epic takes a narrower view, arguing that iP...
Business 商业版块 Epic vs Apple Epic对战苹果 Storing up trouble 埋下祸根 Let the courtroom battle commence 让法庭大战开始吧 Fittingly, the legal deathmatch is happening online. On September 28th a court in California heard argumen...
Fiscal policy, the second factor, may therefore be more important in explaining buoyant prices. In a normal recession, as people lose jobs and their incomes fall, foreclosures drag house prices downnot only by adding to the supply of houses on the ma...
Finance economics 财经 Global housing markets 全球房地产市场 The three pillars 三大支柱 Why, despite the coronavirus pandemic, house prices continue to rise. 新冠当下，房价为何还在涨？ During the global recession a decade ag...
Mr Biden also tried to lay out the traditional policy case, including, by his flubby standards, with some half-decent answers on policing and climate-change policy. For his part, Mr Trump made a handful of disjointed, mostly defensive, claims for his...
