The biggest stories and best reads in one smart email — handpicked by a different FT journalist each week.
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Oluwakemi Aladesuyi’s top reads this week: Trump’s legal offensive | How much will a Covid vaccine cost? | Beijing halts world’s biggest IPO
Lauren Fedor’s top reads this week: Where will the next pandemic come from? | Uber at the crossroads | US election countdown
Jennifer Thompson’s top reads this week: Biden’s battle for Texas | The inequality of security | A jog through Rome’s ruins
Sarah O'Connor’s top reads: US election race heats up | A view into Hockney’s world | The geography of coronavirus in Britain
Federica Cocco’s top reads: Covid-19’s impact on women in work | Walmart’s UK challenge | Facebook cult groups
Kesewa Hennessy’s top reads: Is the US election in danger? | Wirecard’s auditor under fire | New York’s underground culture revisited
Pilita Clark’s top reads this week: How close is a coronavirus vaccine? | What’s happening with Nikola? | Why loneliness fuels populism
Katrina Manson’s top reads this week: if Trump loses but refuses to concede | How Boeing hid fatal design flaws | Rock-climbing with small kids
Jude Webber’s top reads this week: Brexit treaty breach | vaccine trials on hold | would you ‘work from hotel’?
Elaine Moore’s top reads this week: Are we going back to the office? | Goodbye to the ‘Pret economy’ | ‘Wirecard and me’: inside the FT’s billion-dollar fraud exposé
Lauren Fedor’s top reads this week: Kamala Harris | Domestic abuse pandemic | Glampervan travels
Alice Hancock’s top reads this week: Beirut explosion | Boohoo and ethical investment | Lunch with Mary Trump
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: India’s deepening coronavirus crisis | Big Tech leaders squirm | Selfie feminism on Instagram
Kana Inagaki’s top reads this week: China-US: a new cold war? | how to create better jobs | ‘The family my childhood nanny left behind’
Tabby Kinder’s top reads this week: Britain’s Huawei ban | airborne virus transmission | socially distant haircuts
Jennifer Thompson’s top reads this week: Hong Kong and Silicon Valley | lockdown’s low-paid heroes | lunch with Anthony Fauci
Chloe Cornish’s top reads this week: Hong Kong fears | Wirecard’s real business | how Covid changed the meaning of home
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: Wirecard’s rise and fall | homeless in a pandemic | FT fiction recommendations
What Jennifer Thompson is reading this week: an interview with Anthony Fauci | the show must go on at Netflix | a rusty, 2ft-wide haven
What Lauren Fedor is reading this week: injustice in America | hackers for hire | face mask style
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: George Floyd protests: an American story | Facebook staff’s ‘virtual walkouts’ | the joy of Ikea
Sue-Lin Wong’s top reads this week: what’s happening in Hong Kong | after coronavirus: a cause for hope | keep the office chat alive
Jennifer Thompson’s top reads this week: What President Xi knew | streaming wars’ new warrior | time to buy a car?
Lilah Raptopoulos’s top reads this week: cautionary tale for America | OK, Zoomer | Farewell water-cooler
Tabby Kinder’s top reads this week: Wuhan’s ‘batwoman’ scientist | medical mysteries of coronavirus | ‘My urge to splurge is over’