The world this week
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders
The energy crisis
Power struggle
How to fix the world’s energy emergency without wrecking the climate
France
The man who fell to earth
Emmanuel Macron loses his majority in parliament. Can he now get anything done?
Global instability
Hungry and angry
A wave of unrest is coming. Here’s how to avert some of it
The euro zone
The ECB’s next headache
How fighting inflation could imperil the single currency
Britain’s growth crisis
Tiddlers, not titans
As new firms get bigger, the capital they need dries up
Letters
Letters to the editor
On nuclear weapons, California, Southern Baptists, animals, management
By Invitation
Russia and Ukraine
There will be African victims of Russia’s war, warn Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Olusegun Obasanjo
Roe v Wade
Overturning abortion rights ignores freedoms awarded after slavery’s end, says Peggy Cooper Davis
Roe v Wade
Abortion would be best governed by legislatures, says O. Carter Snead
Briefing
Nuclear energy
Nuclear family
Energy security gives climate-friendly nuclear-power plants a new appeal. To make good on it they have to get easier to build
Asia
Illiberalism in Indonesia
Illusory extremists
Conservation in South-East Asia
A giant stingray in the Mekong
Afghanistan
Another disaster
Labour migration in Central Asia
From Moscow with money
Banyan
Exit stage left
China
Mental health
The thought police
Aircraft-carriers
Catapulting forward
The Taiwan Strait
Whose is it?
The metaphor still holds water
Hong Kong’s most famous floating restaurant sinks
United States
Asian-Americans
Pivot to Asia
Trans rights
Lost in conversion
Petrol politics
Pump and dump
California’s schools
Snoozzzzzze on
Religion in schools
A victory for God
Uranium
Fission impossible?
Lexington
The Biden-Harris problem
Middle East & Africa
Graft in South Africa
The rot that spread
South Africa
The longhorns and the law
Israel
Once more unto the booths
Saudi Arabia
Princes, purses and putters
The Americas
Colombia
Petrofied
Bello
Murder in the Amazon
Sex education
Birds, bees and not much else
Europe
French parliamentary elections
Jupiter waning
Ukraine’s weapons
Running on empty
Italy
The Putin effect
Slovenia
The turnaround
Spanish politics
The great riposte of Córdoba
Charlemagne
From bullets to bail-outs
Britain
Growth capital
Start up, fade away
Public art
Heavy metal
Public-sector pay
Wage fright
Horizon Europe
Science friction
Coastal erosion
Uncertain shore
Biology
Cultural history
Bagehot
Remainers’ cake problem
International
Global instability
From inflation to insurrection
Technology Quarterly
The energy transition
Electrical tension
Empowered demand
The people’s power
Energy storage
Beyond batteries
Cleaning up natural gas
Low-hanging fruit
Burning natural gas
The long goodbye
Going beyond the grid
Heat, hope and hydrogen
Climate technology
Acknowledgments
Business
Big tech and health care
Doctor Google will see you now
Health care
New pharm hands
The internet in China
NetUnease
Chipmaking
Why everyone wants Arm
Bartleby
Pity the managers
Schumpeter
Bean-counters v lion-tamers
Finance & economics
Property in America
Move fast and break things
The euro zone
Thrown for a loop
Italian debt
Whenever it breaks
Crypto carnage
Blockchain reaction
Fintech fizzles
The devil to pay
Buttonwood
After the fall
Asian exceptionalism (1)
Islands of price stability
Asian exceptionalism (2)
The BoJ v the markets
Green finance
A natural question
Free exchange
Into a void
Science & technology
Nuclear waste
Oubliette
Infertility
Unblocking the problem
Sputnik V vaccine
Irregular regularity
The world’s biggest bacterium
It can grow to be a centimetre long
Palaeontology
A story carved in ivory
Culture
Feminist history
The rule of three
America’s national anthem
Proof through the night
World in a dish
In the street kitchen
Cybercrime
The pirates of Pyongyang
Nuclear accidents
Ghosts in the machines
Back Story
Debussy to a disco beat
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
World food
Against the grain
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is stagflation, and might it make a comeback?
The Economist explains
Why are pilots in Ukraine firing rockets so clumsily?
Obituary
Roman Ratushny
Fight without end