Prepare those kissers and ready your lip gloss, because a new installment of The Kissing Booth is coming your way — and sooner than you might’ve guessed. Just days following the premiere of The Kissing Booth 2 on Friday (July 24), Netflix...

Jul 27th 2020 VENETIANS HAVE long complained that a surfeit of tourists has turned their city into a historical Disneyland. As if to prove them right, in 2018 the city council erected turnstiles to control the 40m or so...

Jul 25th 2020 AMSTERDAM, MISSISSAUGA AND TOKYO Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub “IT SMELLED LIKE death,”...

Sitting at home playing video games and eating crisps is not good for them International Jul 19th 2020 THIS MAY seem a foolish time to stage a gigantic volleyball tournament in Florida, a covid-19 hotspot. Yet this week several...

Jul 18th 2020 JOHANNESBURG, PARIS AND SÃO PAULO Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub SUHANI, WHO is...

Jul 18th 2020 Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub LAST YEAR Kiana Jones took a summer job...

When KiKi Layne was cast as Tish Rivers, a lead character in Barry Jenkins’s quietly profound indie drama If Beale Street Could Talk, the choice may have been a mystery to some. Then a relatively little-known, 26-year-old actress who...

Jul 9th 2020 LIBERALISM—the Enlightenment philosophy, not the American left—starts with the assertion that all human beings have equal moral worth. From that stem equal rights for all. Libertarians see those principles as paramount. For left-leaning liberals, equal moral...

Jul 4th 2020 JOHANNESBURG, MADRID, PARIS AND ROME Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub YOU MAY BE...