Trump’s legacy: The shame and the opportunity

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

American politics
Trump’s legacy
The invasion of the Capitol and the Democrats’ victory in Georgia will change the course of the Biden presidency

The pandemic
Who gets the jab?
Answering that question will decide not only who survives, but also the sort of world they inherit

Cryptocurrencies
If you can’t beat them
Bitcoin might yet justify a high price. But it will not up-end global finance

Encyclopedias
Diderot’s dream
In praise of Wikipedia

Dealing with China
Advantage, Beijing
Arrests in Hong Kong and Europe’s dubious trade deal show that the West is on the defensive

Democracy in Africa
Time out
Many African countries are letting presidential term limits slip. That’s a shame

Letters

Letters to the editor
On military deception, Singapore, Christian Democrats, big tech, Cuba, accents, banking
Briefing

Vaccinating the world
The great task
The race to vaccinate the world against covid-19 has begun in earnest, posing problems for many and providing opportunities for some

Asia


Private schools in India
Permanently excluded
Parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan
Five different ways to applaud
Banyan
Cosmic wobbles
Islam in Japan
Hiji hajis
China


Hong Kong
Cut down in the primary
Female comedians
A woman walks into a bar
Chaguan
Winners and losers
United States


The Republican Party
After the insurrection
Georgia’s run-off elections
So sweet and clear
American policy and the Uyghurs
Working on the chain gang
The Americas


Abortion in Latin America
Green wave, blue breakwater
Bother in Barbados
Rum punch and the pandemic
Middle East & Africa


South Africa
Bourgeois blues
Egypt’s trade with Africa
Monkey business
War and sport
A shot at peace
The Gulf
The Arabs get back in line
Syrian refugees
Here to stay, however miserable
Europe


Transatlantic relations
Putting it back together again
Spain’s government
Frenemies on the left
Gibraltar
Between a rock and a softer place
Greece
Laptops at the ready
The Dutch monarchy
Bruised Oranges
Charlemagne
The clown ceiling
Britain


Covid-19
Racing the virus
Losing digital privacy rights
Chlorinated Facebook
EU citizens
Remainers
Political attitudes
That sinking feeling
Refugees
Locked out
Fishing rights
Coming up empty
Bagehot
Patience wins
International


Wikipedia at 20
The other tech giant
Technology Quarterly


A hundred years of bright ideas
The liberation of light
Solar power
Gradually, then all at once...
Information technology
Cosmos, meet commerce
Lasers
Outshining the sun
Advancing science
New enlightenments
Business


Deutschland AG in China
Riding high
America v China Inc
NYSE knowing you
Carmaking
A Stellantis is born
Rekindling corporate nuptials
An M&A revival
Oil exploration
Thanks, but no thanks
Corporate charity
Giving and taking
Bartleby
Network effects
Schumpeter
The game goes on
Finance & economics


The markets in 2021
Melting up
Buttonwood
The lion sleeps tonight
Bitcoin zooms
Crypto-conversion
Divining water risk
An expanding pool
China’s stockmarket
Bring out your dead
The world economy
Covid-10trn
Free exchange
Social studies
Science & technology


The future of armed conflict
Warfare’s worldwide web
The origin of dogs
Woof! Woof!
Oceanic cartography
Full fathom five
Traditional medicine
Treating forgotten killers
The Richard Casement internship
Books & arts


Authenticating art
Computer says no
The Cultural Revolution
Changing the guards
Arctic explorers
Northern exposure
The Troubles
Close quarters
British fiction
Memory lane
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Wikipedia
A rich-world Wikipeak
Obituary


Agitu Gudeta
The milk of human kindness