The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Joe Biden
Retro or radical?
Why Joe Biden’s instinctive caution makes real change possible

The pandemic
The way we live now
Covid-19 is yet to do its worst

Hong Kong
A safe harbour no more
China has imposed a draconian security law on Hong Kong. It buries the idea of one country, two systems

Investing in India
Inside game
The recent flurry of foreign money into India is not what it seems

The Nile
Dam bluster
Egypt and Ethiopia must learn to share the world’s longest river

Letters

Letters to the editor
On artificial intelligence, green investing, GDP, gardens, working from home
Briefing

Joe Biden
He persisted
A consummate moderate in his late 70s, Joe Biden has a good chance of becoming a president with an ambitious, activist policy platform

Asia


The war in Afghanistan
Withdraw first, ask questions later
India and China
Hit them where it hurts us
India’s obsession with TikTok
Fifteen seconds of fame
Feeding Singapore
The rise of the rooftop farmer
Vietnam
Your loss, my grain
Banyan
A charged relationship
China


Hong Kong’s freedoms
The evening of its days
Popular culture
Star wars
Chaguan
The great unifier
United States


The presidential election
Donald Trump’s uphill battle
State flags
Mississippi changes its colours
John Roberts
Hail to the chief
Capital punishment
Cruel, unusual and costly
The Democratic left
Gathering steam
Intelligence and the president
Pandering to the bear
Lexington
It’s messing with Texas
The Americas


Mexican-American relations
The two amigos
Colombia
Post-party town
Cuba
Neither mulas nor moolah
Bello
Ecuador’s anguish
Middle East & Africa


The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Showdown on the Nile
Malawi’s new president
A lesson in democracy
Another sort of plague
Locusts at the gate
Sierra Leone
Guild of thieves
Facebook and autocrats
With friends like these
Music in the Arab world
Rap the casbah
Europe


Russia
Parade’s end
Turkey
Osman and the snails
France
The president’s dilemmas
Ireland
A new world
Covid-19 and the Nordics
Borderline personalities
Charlemagne
Let expats vote
Britain


Producing a vaccine
Moonshot
Relations with China
Getting off the fence
The economy
V-sign
Infrastructure
Boris digs for victory
Lockdown in Leicester
Not again
Teaching history
War of the poses
Toy soldiers
The lead belt booms
Bagehot
Giving the bureaucrats a rocket
International


The pandemic’s next stage
The new normal
The World If


If the Republicans pivoted on climate
The elephant’s U-turn
If water shortages destabilised China
Trickle-down policies
If climate activists turned to terrorism
Green blood
If carbon removal became the new Big Oil
Big Suck
If covid-19 devastated aviation
Peak plane
If technology tracked all carbon emissions
The rise of carbon surveillance
If mammoths were recreated
Doing the tundra quick-steppe
If nuclear power had taken off
The road not taken
Business


Business in India
All aboard
Meal-delivery wars
Appetite for destruction
Airlines and the climate
Setting a new CORSIA
The Facebook boycott
With a little help from its friends
Nissan
Turning down the volume
Logistics (1)
Seeking deliverance
Logistics (2)
Droning on
Bartleby
Keep it practical
Schumpeter
The legacy of Chesapeake
Finance & economics


Public finances
The debt toll
Banks and the recession
What if?
Trade finance
Collateral damage
Chinese banking
Xi sank your battleship
Property in America
The house wins
Buttonwood
Zero gravity
Free exchange
A Latin American tragedy
Science & technology


Hydrogen power
Another look in the toy box
Phylloxera
The root of the problem
Books & arts


Urban history
A night at the Cathay
American politics
Orange warning
Secrets and lies
Cherchez les femmes
Television drama
Creative destruction
Home Entertainment
Chekhov in Siberia
Home Entertainment
Hidden depths
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 and lockdowns
Thinking fast and slow
Obituary


Li Zhensheng
Facing it