It’s hard to believe that America’s legislators, whatever their political leanings, would willingly allow millions of children to go hungry. Yet that is what’s happening during the Covid-19 crisis — and unless Congress acts quickly, the problem’s about to get worse. In one of the world’s wealthiest nations, food insecurity should not be an issue. Yet it is. Even in ...

The “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” as the US constitution’s first amendment calls it, is one of the pillars of liberty. That’s why all liberal democracies guarantee and protect it in some form. But is this right absolute? Could there be, in well-defined cases, a liberal case for abridging it? This timeless question has just become newly urgent. ...

It would be easy to dismiss the Trump administration’s campaign against Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat as part of an election strategy to attack China from all angles. The moves, however, as well as China’s counter-response, are contributing to a deeper problem at the heart of the global economy — one that can’t be resolved unless the world’s two biggest ...

Bloomberg A snapshot of Airbus SE plane use outlines a tentative recovery still dependent on China, and continued challenges for wide-body aircraft as carriers adjust to a lack of demand. Of the 10,404 Airbus planes in global fleets, almost two-thirds had flown at least once in the previous five days, according to an August 24 newsletter sent by the European ...

Bloomberg Chinese consumers are back to binging on luxury handbags, cosmetics and cars. But this shopping enthusiasm is not extending to mass consumption in sporting goods and restaurants. An uneven recovery is under way in China as the world’s biggest consumer market also becomes one of the first nations to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic that continues to ravage the ...

Bloomberg Whole Foods Market opened a location in Brooklyn that it’s calling a store — except shoppers won’t be welcome to walk the aisles. Instead, the Amazon.com Inc-owned organic grocer will use the facility, located in the New York borough’s Sunset Park neighbourhood, as a warehouse to fulfill online grocery orders, the company said in a blog post. Amazon bought ...

Bloomberg Pret a Manger Ltd cut 2,800 jobs in UK shops, about a third of its store employees there, in the latest sign that the pandemic is hurting the retail industry. Sales at British stores are down about 60% from a year earlier and are now roughly the same level as in August 2010, Pret said in a statement. A ...

Bloomberg The global aviation industry has racked up more than 350,000 job losses in the past six months, with more pain on the way, according to new research delving into the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the once-buoyant sector. The total could approach half a million positions after including some 25,000 cuts that don’t fit into the main categories of airlines, ...

Bloomberg India triggered the latest clash with China on their Himalayan border by executing a stealth night-time operation to claim strategic outposts offering a clear view of troop movements in disputed territory, according to Indian officials with knowledge of the matter. In what they called India’s first offensive move since the conflict began in May, thousands of soldiers climbed up ...

Bloomberg Taiwan has unveiled a redesigned passport in an effort to stop its citizens being mistaken for Chinese while traveling abroad. The new passport omits “Republic of China” — the official name by which Taiwan refers to itself — in larger English print from the Taiwanese passport cover. “Republic of China” remains written in Chinese, and in smaller English writing ...