The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The aliens among us
Viruses cause pandemics. They also shape the world

Israel and the Arab world
Out of the closet
Some good news for a troubled region

Mali’s coup
Why the Sahel is suffering
The latest coup in Mali shows that Western countries cannot solve African crises with military support alone

Tech IPOs
Silicon Valley v Wall Street
Tech firms are taking advantage of frothy stockmarkets to experiment with new ways to go public. Good

Tensions in the eastern Mediterranean
A sea of trouble
Turkey and Greece must be encouraged to exchange views, not blows

Letters

On software problems, Britain, India, racism, Clement Attlee
Letters to the editor
Essay


The viral universe
The outsiders inside
Asia


Myanmar’s forever war
Will it ever stop?
Japan
Virtual respect for the dead
Thai democracy
Street cred
The internet in Pakistan
Calls waiting
Banyan
Sensitive Seoul
United States


The presidential election
The postmaster always rings twice
America’s black elite
Our kind of people
Veterans in politics
Old soldiers
Lingua securitatis
From iPhones to aircraft carriers
Lexington
Unconventional
Internship
The Arctic
Drill music
China


Hukou reform
Worlds apart
Chaguan
Past its Peak
The Americas


The Caribbean
Anxious isles
Canada
No more Morneau
Middle East & Africa


The United Arab Emirates
The strong, silent type
Israel and the Arab world
Who’s next?
Iran and covid-19
A rite old mess
African stamps
Wait a minute Mr Postman
Oil on protected waters
An oil spill off Mauritius threatens protected ecosystems
Mutiny in Mali
A coup that was coming
Europe


The Belarus uprising
The dictator hangs on, for now
Italy’s populists
Welcome to normal politics
Alexei Navalny in peril
Russia’s opposition leader is in a coma
Depopulating the Balkans
Ageing, dying, leaving
Charlemagne
Why Europeans love Schengen
Britain


Unemployment
It’s coming
Gymshark
Primus Insta pares
Public Health England
Turning German?
Exam marks
U and non-U
Race in Northern Ireland
Green or orange, not black
Media and society
No news is good news
Labour
Left out
Bagehot
Rule by algorithm
International


Tension in the eastern Mediterranean
Battling over boundaries
Business


Technology listings
Partying like it’s 1999
Apple’s Epic dust-up
Playing hard ball
Electric vehicles
Believe the hypercar
Entertainment
A big-sum game
Working hours
Weekend plans
Sino-American tech war
No more quarter
Schumpeter
Supply chained and bound
Finance & economics


Dubai
Navigating the storm
Mask economics
Cloth of gold
People’s Bank of China
Conforming to norms
Buttonwood
Foam party
Free exchange
State of the unions
Schools brief


Hidden figures
A flattened curve
Science & technology


Covid and chronic illness
Lingering fog
Books & arts


The American story
Twentieth-century fox
Johnson
Moral minorities
Colombia
A river and a nation
Home Entertainment
In the mind’s eye
British fiction
Unmoored
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Authoritarianism
Drifting apart
Obituary


Julian Bream
Passion plays