The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

America’s election
Bidenomics
Joe Biden should be more decisive and ambitious about America’s economy

Global housing
The house party returns
Booming residential-property prices spell trouble for the social contract after the pandemic

Famine in Yemen
An avoidable tragedy
To avert mass starvation, warring parties must let in aid

Germany
Growing up at last
Thirty years after reunification, Germany is starting to shoulder its responsibilities. It has a lot more to do

China’s countryside
Mass destruction
China is tearing down small villages to force residents into bigger ones. It should give villagers property rights instead

Letters

On working from home, land reform, scientific management
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Joe Biden’s economic plans
The pragmatist
The Democratic presidential contender would be a salve for America’s economy but would not remake it

Asia


The coronavirus in South Asia
India v Pakistan v covid-19
Natural resources in Uzbekistan
Colourless, odourless, buyerless
Elections in New Zealand
Jacindarella
Investing in Myanmar
No time for details
Banyan
Always the man of the future
China


Consolidating villages
On Harmony Road
Betel nuts
Hard to crack
Chaguan
When China fought America
United States


Florida and the election
Key largo
Supreme Court and the election
Not so fast
Election troubles
Rashomon, with ballots
Measuring poverty
And the poor get poorer
Catholic priests and politics
Render unto Caesar
Lexington
The end of the debate
Middle East & Africa


Competition law
No contest
Somaliland and Taiwan
Outcasts united
Kuwait
A king of co-operation
Yemen
Unsafe Safer
Iraq and covid-19
Out of control
The Americas


Canada
Justin’s timing
Mexico
Tabascan onomastics
Peru
Patient, don’t heal thyself
Bello
The missing local links
Europe


Reunified Germany, 30 years on
Waking Europe’s sleeping giant
Armenia and Azerbaijan
The cauldron bubbles again
Hungary
Taking on Viktor Orban
Spain
Dancing with death
Pop music
The Albanian all-stars
Charlemagne
The revenge of strategic yogurt
Britain


Race
Not black and white
Cars in the capital
Road warriors
Covid-19 in universities
Freshers’ covid
Skills
How the other half learns
Lithium
Wheels within wheals
Scotland
In their sights
Bagehot
We shall fight them on the airwaves
International


Parenting
The rugrat race
Technology Quarterly


Virtual realities
Reaching into other worlds
Simulation
Reality bytes
Hardware
The promise and the reality
Health care
Getting better
Brain scan
Lord of the Metaverse
The future
What is real, anyway?
Business


Tata Sons
Endangered species
Epic v Apple
Storing up trouble
Fracking
Shelling out on shale’s sale
A luxury tiff
Letting go lightly
Measuring sustainability
In the soup
Bartleby
Why we need to laugh at work
Schumpeter
All the president’s moolah
Finance & economics


Global housing markets
The three pillars
Evergrande
Not forever grand
Digital payments
If you can’t bill them
Investment banking
Spoof proof
Employment in Germany
Nature v nurture
Investment in India
Sticking plaster
Buttonwood
Gifts that keep giving
Free exchange
Marching bans
Science & technology


Hybrids and evolution
Match and mix
Books & arts


Mexico’s chroniclers
The other half of history
The CIA and the cold war
Original sins
Geography and imagination
Water all around
Japanese fiction
I don’t belong here
Johnson
Justice and just slips
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Wealth and schooling
A rising tide
Obituary


Harold Evans
Attacking the devil