The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Energy
Make coal history
Celebrate the decline of coal in rich Western countries. Asia must be next

Belarus
The colours of terror
Having stolen an election, Belarus’s government is torturing those who object

Health care
Alive and kicking
The world’s most complex and immovable industry has been reinventing itself

America and Iran
Towards a better nuclear deal
Joe Biden should drive a hard bargain with the mullahs

“The Crown”
Uneasy lies the head of production
Yet a television series that fictionalises reality is more truthful than the story the royals sold

Letters

On Afghanistan, diplomats, Hong Kong, the Democrats, the colour black, hipsters
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Coal’s endgame
Crushing it
The world is finally burning less coal. It now faces the challenge of using almost none at all

Asia


The Taiwanese economy
Tiger balm
Inequality in India
Compounding
Coal and climate in Australia
Losing seam
Indonesian politics
Son set
Ungulates in Japan
Hungry for visitors
Banyan
Death of a novelist
China


The coastguard
Great white hulls
Where the party wants him
Jailings in Hong Kong
Housing in Hong Kong
Phew, no democrats
Chaguan
The downside of bullying
United States


The economy
You must believe in spring
Campaign financing
Not for sale
Corporate transparency
Shell collecting
Water
With the lead piping
America’s spies
Shadow business
Lexington
Jake Sullivan to the rescue
Middle East & Africa


America and Iran
Back to the future
Burundi and Tanzania
No haven
Ethiopia’s civil war
Victory, defeat and confusion
Nigeria
Death in a rice field
The Americas


Cuba
The art of dissent
Canada
Alberta goes green
Bello
The man without a plan
Europe


Belarus
A new country struggles to be born
Turkey
Picking up the pieces
France
A screeching U-turn
Dutch populism
On the Chopin block
Charlemagne
To ski or not to ski?
Britain


The National Health Service
Unleashed
Trans rights
Bellwether?
The Brexit endgame
How late it was, how late
Eastern European migration
Farewell to all that
Cyber defence
Use the force
Retailing
Shopocalypse
Bagehot
Tidying Boris up
International


The modern household
Nuclear retreat
Business


Health care and technology
The dawn of digital medicine
Pandemic gastronomy
Malls’ last stand
Carmaking
In the hot seat
Exchange-traded fiends
Boiling point
Business software
Get me some Slack
Chinese hoteliers
Hospitable climate
Stakeholderism
Swiss miss
Bartleby
Managing by Zooming around
Schumpeter
Feathering its own Nestlé
Finance & economics


Ping An
Metamorphosis
Financial-market data
Go figure
Joe Biden’s advisers
Top picks
Buttonwood
The ABC of the euro zone
Music rights
Tuning in
India’s market rally
Dramatic disconnect
Free exchange
The disintermediation dilemma
Science & technology


Computational biology
The shapes of things to come
Space flight
Tally ho!
Sustainable fishing
The ones that got away
Vaccine safety
An injection of urgency
Books & arts


Books of the year
Cold comforts
Books by Economist writers
Private passions
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Vaccines and stockmarkets
What goes up
Obituary


Diego Maradona
A boy and a ball