2020-07-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

According to the book, ordinary Americans, too, are ill-equipped to grapple with the president’s brazenness. Ever since Watergate, they have been primed to sniff out political con

2020-07-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Book Review
书评American politics
美国政治学Orange warning
橙色警告Surviving Autocracy.
《幸存的独裁统治》By Masha Gessen.
作者：玛莎·格森Two days after

2020-07-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Latin America, however, proved a laggard. It managed an average growth rate in real per person incomes of just 1.9% in the 2000s:
但事实证明拉丁美洲是一个落后者。在本世纪头10年，其

2020-07-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Where covid-19 strikes, it reveals hard truths.
新型冠状病毒肺炎所到之处，揭示了残酷的事实。In recent weeks Latin America has become the centre of the pandemic, responsible for ov

2020-07-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Size is part of the problem. Facebook has 2.7bn users, many of whom write in foreign languages. Their posts are vetted for hate speech and incitement. But the firm’s 15,000 conten

2020-07-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Middle East & Africa
中东和非洲板块Facebook and autocrats
Facebook和专制统治者With friends like these
和这样的朋友在一起The social-media giant has been bending to the will of Ar

2020-07-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治Following months of talks, the unSecurity Council passed a resolution calling for a 90-day global ceasefire to allow wartorn areas to

2020-07-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When Piaf invited her to come and see her at Gerny’s, an ultra-chic cabaret, she felt too shy to go. Street singing was dying fast, though. By the beginning of the 1950s those 30

2020-07-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If correct, says Francois Delmotte, who works at INRAE's campus in Bordeaux
Francois Delmotte在INRAE位于波尔多的营地工作，也是该项目的领导之一，and is one of the project's

2020-07-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Since wheeled drones are in effect selfdriving cars, albeit passenger-less ones, they need authorities’ approval to operate. This has not always been forthcoming. Now the “corona

2020-07-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Amity, those in charge see the danger but fail to act swiftly. Brody, the local police chief (played by Roy Scheider), is wellmeaning but unprepared. After the first shark attac

2020-07-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A century and a half ago an alien insect alighted in Europe.
一个半世纪以前，一种外来昆虫飞落欧洲。It displaced millions, ruined local economies and forced scientists, politicians

2020-07-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Home entertainment
家庭娱乐专栏Back in the water
回到水中Hidden depths
隐藏的深渊Bungling officials confront an invisible threat in a blockbuster about a f

2020-07-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Abbott’s pandemic management has followed a similar pattern. Having covered his right flank, he has ended up in a pretty reasonable place—as indicated by the fact that he is n

2020-07-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Still, because trade finance is short-term— usually 30 to 90 days—and backed by collateral, lenders have some recourse.
因为贸易金融是短期的——通常为30到90天——并有保证金的支持

2020-07-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Logistics (2)
物流栏目（第二部分）Droning on
启动无人机Automated deliveries get a fillip
自动配送注入强心剂Unmanned vehicles, airborne or earthbound, have been

2020-07-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Managing pandemic politics is easiest in states with stable majorities, as Andrew Cuomo of New York and Mike DeWine of Ohio have shown. It is much harder in more divided ones, espe

2020-07-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Lexington
列克星顿专栏It’s messing with Texas
搅乱的德克萨斯州Greg Abbott is battling the coronavirus with one hand and his party’s lunatic fri

2020-07-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"In warm weather, fewer people wear socks," says Paul Rotstein of Gold Medal International, a wholesaler in New York.
“在温暖的天气，穿袜子的人更少，”纽约批发商Gold Me

2020-07-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If these findings are replicated elsewhere, furlough schemes may be adopted in future recessions. Some commentators point to the record of Germany, which suffered a much smaller ri

2020-07-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, announced that Britain’s Department for International Development would be folded back into the Foreign Office. British aid wil

2020-07-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The new intake of Tory MPS is proving to be surprisingly hard to manage. A veteran observer of the party says that he expected rebellions from Europhile MPS and ageing Brexiteers w

2020-07-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治Brazil reported a record 35,000 new cases of COVID-19 in a day. Even that grim figure is widely regarded as an undercount. India is n

2020-07-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But fear and charisma only work so long as they are accompanied by competence. The backbenchers who once feared Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings are now more worried about the fury of th

2020-07-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

She was closer to her audiences than any film star; she could feel them press round her, watch how they reacted, notice the women with their prams or the passing cyclists pausing t