The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Google
How to cope with middle age
The firm has outgrown its uninhibited corporate culture. It is time to learn from its elders

Global migration
Locked out
When and how to let migrants move again

Sino-American relations
One thing after another
This is a dangerous moment for relations between America and China. Cool heads must prevail

Belarus
The next revolution?
A former Soviet state is on the brink of serious trouble

Airlines
Don’t carry flag-carriers
The industry can rebound leaner and greener—so long as governments stop favouring incumbents

Regional inequality
Levelling up Britain
The prime minister has a big idea, but no plan to achieve it. The trick is to relinquish power

Letters

Letters to the editor
On race and liberalism
Briefing

Alphabet
Google grows up
As the computing conglomerate has got bigger, so too have its problems

Asia


75 years after Hiroshima
Never forget
Singapore
From fairway to highway
Malaysia
Down and out
Sri Lanka’s election
Pax Rajapaksa
Banyan
Spiked
China


Voting with their feet
One country, two passports
Transgender justice
Evolving rights
Chaguan
China digs its past
United States


Policy towards China
Peering through the smoke
Tech titans testify
Hearing without listening
Posthumous hip-hop hits
Dead rappers are killing it
Crime statistics
Few signs of a surge
Lexington
Mid-century modern
The Americas


Canada and America
No Canuck do
Crime in Canada
Rough justice
The Galapagos islands
Fishy business
Bello
The return of rigged elections
Middle East & Africa


Turkey and the Arab world
Ottoman redux
Covid-era travel in the Gulf
Viral vacations
Pollution in Africa
A smouldering sky
South Africa and the IMF
Fund facts
Ethiopia
Urban brawl
Europe


Italy
How to spend it
Covid-19 in Europe
Still with us
The Aegean
Muddying the waters
Turkey
The queen is dead
Charlemagne
Euro crisis (with guns)
Britain


Regional economics
The national tilt
Urban explorers
Beauty in decay
Public transport
Going underground
Obesity
Witness the fitness
Competition policy
A world leader after all
International


Migration after covid-19
Tearing up the welcome mat
Business


The airline-industrial complex
Terminal conditions
Bartleby
Back on the chain gang
Bicycles
Electric shock
Technology companies
Wish upon a STAR
Schumpeter
A GE whodunnit
Finance & economics


Emerging markets
A sigh of relief, a gasp for breath
India’s banks
Delayed reaction
Buttonwood
The SPAC hack
Bridgewater
Troubled waters
The dollar dips
The price of gold surges to an all-time high
The European Union
Filling the coffers
Emmanuel Farhi
A lost asset
Free exchange
The Replacements
Science & technology


Electric cars
Million-mile car batteries are coming
Concussion
RAT tales
Palaeomicrobiology
The bugs that time forgot
Books & arts


Ways of seeing
Attention pays
Cheating in sport
Through the mousehole
Icelandic fiction
Lines of beauty
Understanding data
Sums of all fears
Home Entertainment
“The Seventh Seal”
Perspectives
Cleanliness is next to growth
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Twitter’s algorithm
Relevant content
Obituary


László Bogdán
The tale of a village