America’s inequalities burst into the open

The chain of violent events being acted out in US cities is depressingly familiar. "The worst civil uprisings in the US in more than half a century are forcing Americans to confront deep-rooted problems of racial inequality and police brutality — all while reeling from a pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 of their fellow citizens and shattered the economy." Joshua Chaffin and James Fontanella-Khan report in the Financial Times.