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How high will unemployment in America go?
The financial crisis looks a better reference point than the DepressionUnited StatesApr 1st 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist…
Send the Marines
Mar 31st 2020THE OFFICIAL hymn of the United States Marine Corps, a jaunty tune written by Jacques Offenbach in 1867, proudly declares that “From the Halls of Montezuma/ To the shores of Tripoli/ We fight our country’s battles/ In the air,…
New York is fast becoming the world’s next coronavirus hotspot
Mar 29th 2020New YorkEditor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more…
Relations between China and America are infected with coronavirus
Mar 26th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see…
Howie Hawkins will probably be the Green Party’s 2020 nominee
Mar 26th 2020CHICAGOHOWIE HAWKINS, the front-runner for the Green Party’s presidential nomination, is inclined to look on the bright side. Munching on oatmeal during a recent campaign visit to Chicago, the genial, white-bearded 67-year-old…
American teens are sexting more and sexing less
Mar 26th 2020WASHINGTON, DCBY CONVENTIONAL measures, American teenagers have become prudish. Less than half of high-school students are having sex, with fewer partners and more contraception than the generation before them. Teen-pregnancy…
The virus should speed efforts to shrink America’s prison population
Mar 26th 2020CHICAGOEditor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more…
The return of slow courtship to American dating
Mar 26th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see…
Young Americans have been surprisingly vulnerable to the virus
Mar 26th 2020AMONG MANY worrying data points from the coronavirus crisis, one in particular has struck Americans. In a report published on March 18th the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that of the 508 known patients…
Congress puts aside its habitual dysfunction and responds to covid-19
Mar 25th 2020WASHINGTON, DCEditor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more…