2021-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hacking history
黑客史Origami in reverse
逆向折纸Cracking the security on a trove of 17th-century letters
撬开一堆17世纪的信件A modern correspondent wanting to communicate priva

2021-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That is the easy part. Balancing generosity and dynamism is harder. Part of the solution is to top up the wages of low-paid workers. AngloSax on countries have done this well since

2021-03-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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 w

2021-03-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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, vot

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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 i

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Of that she already had plenty. She showed it most memorably on the day in 1963 when she went into Shalimar’s barber shop in Harlem and asked to have her sleek bob cut away. For a

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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？

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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 an

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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, wi

2021-03-18 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Business
商业板块The American Senate began debate on Joe Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus bill, after it passed the House of Representatives. Mr Biden w

2021-03-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The fragile four 脆弱四国Which emerging markets are most vulnerable to American financial tantrums? 哪些新兴市场最易受到美国金融动荡的影响？There are few greater honours than becom

2021-03-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Spies and technology
间谍和技术Machine intelligence
机器智能Intelligence agencies are grappling with the promise—and pitfalls—of AI
情报机构正在努力应对人工智能带来的希望和困难

2021-03-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

They posses another advantage, too. Unlike forests on land, blue-carbon ecosystems do not burn. Climate change is intensifying wildfires around the world. As forests burn, their ca

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As well as chronicling the familiar sins of empire, particularly in India, the author gives a fair hearing to those who emphasise the more positive aspects of imperial rule, railwa

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In short, he was not to be tied down, not even to success. His most famous and popular song was a number called “Spain”, from 1973. It had come to him in the usual random way, as

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Books & arts 文艺板块Book review 书评Britain’s past and present 英国的过去和现在The sun never sets 日不落Empireland. By Sathnam Sangher《帝国》，作者：萨瑟南·桑赫拉As

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That encounter with the Rhodes piano had, nonetheless, been dramatic for him. It came just after he had taken up Scientology and, with it, began to wonder about the effect he could

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Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, withdrew his Fidesz party from the European People’s Party, the centre-right and largest grouping in the European Parliament. Th

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How do celebrities figure out their fees? One way is through a simple opportunity-cost calculation. Steven Galanis, Cameo's boss, recalls speaking to a basketball player on an

2021-03-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Carbon capture and storage
碳捕获与存储技术Supergrass
劲草Plants in the ocean are better at storing carbon than those on land
海洋植物比陆地植物更善于储存碳Off the coast of Form

2021-03-10 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
政治板块Security services killed dozens of people demonstrating against the recent military coup in Myanmar. The repression of the protes

2021-03-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Wholly redesigning the power grid in Texas seems unlikely. After the snow melts, the state will need to tackle two more straightforward questions. The first is whether it needs to

2021-03-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Platform economics
平台经济The price of fame
名气的价值What is a celebrity worth?
名人的价值是什么？"The writer of this piece deserves a big raise," says Bret "The Hitman" Hart,