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The best long reads of 2020

From a first report inside Wuhan, the story of a Nazi concentration camp guard’s trial and an investigation into Mafia money laundering, to moving personal essays on loneliness, coming home, and writing with Huntington’s disease — we’ve gathered FT Weekend’s best long reads of the year

Inside Wuhan: China’s struggle to control the virus — and the narrative | Free to read
Beijing is keen to portray a city returning to normal, but many still question what really happened
Simon Schama: the two Americas
LBJ, MLK and what the dramas of 1965 can teach a polarised nation
How the Mafia infiltrated Italy’s hospitals and laundered the profits globally
The country’s most powerful organised crime group packaged millions of plundered euros into funds and portfolios
Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read
The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
Will America tear itself apart? The Supreme Court, 2020 elections and a looming constitutional crisis
Supreme Court politics and 2020 election fears are heating up the debate over the future of the US and its founding creed
Loneliness and me
Millions of us were living with this curse before the pandemic. How can we break it?

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