The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Political reform in Britain
Remaking the state
The Tories have got the wrong idea about why government isn’t working

American politics
The art of losing
Accepting a disappointing election result is a vital part of a healthy democracy

Afghanistan
Leaving too soon
America risks handing Afghanistan to the Taliban

Sovereign debt
A better way not to pay
The G20’s new debt-relief framework is welcome. But it could still be improved on

Race and health
Wanted: more data
To tackle inequalities, governments need to overcome qualms about collecting information on ethnicity

The second cold war
The China strategy America needs
As president, Joe Biden should aim to strike a grand bargain with America’s democratic allies

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the American election, Turkey, Thailand, a proverb, “Hamilton”
Briefing

Global technopolitics
The new grand bargain
Without teaming up, democracies will not be able to establish a robust alternative to China’s autocratic technosphere

Asia


Afghanistan
Guns and poses
Health care in Japan
Technological stunting
Politics in Pakistan
A mountain to climb
Islamophobia in India
Can you foil the love tonight?
Abortion in South Korea
Pleasing no one
Banyan
Quad stretches
China


Joe Biden’s China policy
To a different tune
The next China team
Second-chance saloon
Chaguan
No more love letters
United States


The White House
To the bitter end
Missile defence
De profundis ad astra
Political donors
My Kochtopus teacher
The future of diplomacy
Altered State
Corruption in the Midwest
All about power
Cemeteries
Black tombs scatter
Charters and covid-19
Crash courses
Lexington
Audacious and obstructed
The Americas


Mexico
Smoke and legislators
Ecuador
Piscine plunder
Bello
The politics of destruction
Middle East & Africa


Ethiopia’s civil war
The march to Mekelle
Cattle rustling in South Africa
Where’s the beef?
Mental health in Kenya
Shackling body and mind
Iran in Africa
Looking for the next target
Doctors in the Middle East
Out of practice
Europe


Turkey’s economy
On the edge
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Dayton at 25
Climate politics in Germany
Green on green
Moldova’s election
The Sandu surprise
Charlemagne
The rainbow curtain
Britain


Constitutional reform
The executive unchained
Environmentalism
The selfish green
Foreign aid v diplomacy
Shotgun wedding
Mass testing
Scouse lessons
Bagehot
A modern Machiavelli
International


Race and health
Far from equal
Business


Taiwan Inc in China
Scaling back
German business
Pride and prejudice
Walmart
Beastly earnings
Initial pandemic offerings (2)
Mouth-watering
Initial pandemic offerings (1)
Public holidays
Bartleby
How to play the board game
Schumpeter
Wring out those Bells
Finance & economics


Sovereign debt
Roll up, roll up and write down
RCEP
Big deal
Tax evasion
Court controversy
Retail banks
Bye bye America
Buttonwood
Sand in the gears
China’s bond market
No guarantees
The velocity of money
Changing down
Shareholder litigation
Setting precedents
Free exchange
Tragic rerun
Science & technology


Aerial combat
Virtual mavericks
Space exploration
Mandate of heaven
Astronomy
Colliding stars
Covid-19 vaccines
And then there were two
Evolution
Cutting out the middle man
Books & arts


Beethoven at 250
Ninth lives
Anthropomorphic fiction
Four legs good
Derring-do
Clouds of glory
Globalisation
Ports in a storm
Evil incarnate
Sexy beast
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, markets and commodities
Graphic detail


Technique in golf
Consultants of swing
Obituary


Jonathan Sacks
Words against noise