THE ECONOMIST 經濟學人雜誌 2020/06/13 第24期

Our cover this week looks at the power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd. Mr Floyd was not famous. He was killed on a street corner in America’s 46th-largest city. Yet in death he has suddenly become the keystone of a movement that has seized all of the United States. Still more remarkably, he has inspired protests abroad, from Brazil to Indonesia, and France to Australia. Large-scale social change is hard. Protest movements have a habit of antagonising the moderate supporters they need to succeed. Yet Mr Floyd’s death holds the rich promise of social reform. Anyone who thinks racism is too difficult to tackle might recall that just six years before he was born, interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 American states. Today about 90% of Americans support it. America is both a country and an idea, and wrapped up in that idea is a conviction that progress is possible.

THE ECONOMIST 《經濟學人》雜誌是全球最有公信力的一本週刊，已享譽國際百餘年。經濟學人編輯風格與眾不同，每則報導皆由編輯負責群一同精心討論出來，因此每篇文章採納 各方意見，立場絕對中立，而非以個人觀點報導。這也是為什麼經濟學人的每一篇文章皆不具名。

《經濟學人》報導內容涵蓋全球，而非獨看亞洲地區。報導內容包括時事、商業、政治、經濟、科學、書籍及文藝。文章用字遣詞精簡，在大膽批判之餘，不失作為學者的風範，因此被譽為最值得一看的國際雜誌。

英國《經濟學人》雜誌的寫作風格十分有特色，注重於如何在最小的篇幅內告訴讀者最多的信息。《經濟學人》的文章也以妙語聞名，是學英文 、準備留學學子的一流讀物。