The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Impeachment
The reckoning
The right and the wrong ways to hold President Donald Trump to account

Innovation
The roaring 20s?
Pessimism about technological change is giving way to hope—much of it justified

Social media and democracy
The sound of silence
Regulation of free speech should not be outsourced to a few tech tycoons

Governing India
Reaping what you sow
The failure of Narendra Modi’s farm reforms is a parable of mismanagement

Decluttering low-Earth orbit
New brooms needed
It’s time to tidy up space

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Brexit, inflation, girls, content analysis, the Dutch royal family, rats, Republicans
Briefing

The economics of government R&D
Molecules, missions and money
Economists are convinced that governments can increase economic growth by spending more on research and development. Are they right?

Asia


Royalty in Indonesia
Strutting sultans
Child abuse in the Philippines
Sex with 12-year-olds
Kyrgyzstan’s election
Steppe one
Agriculture in India
Ploughing on
Afghanistan’s bored young
A war over Battlegrounds
Banyan
Bonfire of the protocols
China


Village elections
Why bother counting?
Dissent in Hong Kong
Masked defiance
Chaguan
The stigma of covid-19
United States


Donald Trump’s presidency
The final chapter
Tech and politics
Said the spider to the fly
Violence in cities
Where bullets fly
Minor-league baseball
Trouble on the farm
Texas politics
Stars and gripes
Lexington
Conscience of some conservatives
The Americas


Biden and Latin America
A shift of gears
Carmaking in Brazil
Driven away
Middle East & Africa


Vaccination in the Gulf
Made in China
Saudi Arabia
The Line in the sand
Sticky authoritarianism
The ghetto strikes back
Animating Africa
Move over, Superman
Europe


France
Colour vision
Italy
Just what they didn’t need
Germany’s Christian Democrats
Three men in a Rhineland boat
Covid-19 and repression in Turkey
One man’s terrorist
Greenland
Cloud mining
Charlemagne
Cyberpunked
Britain


The economy after Brexit
Not with a bang but a whimper
Rolling out the vaccine
Quick jabs
Hospitals
Long covid
Covid-19 genomics
An unusual sequence of events
The Labour Party
Learning from Joe
The civil service
The blob won
Contemporary art
Wall power
Bagehot
Trump? Don’t think I know him
International


Democracy
Madison’s nightmare
Business


Business and technology
Bearing fruit
Corporate China
A chill descends
Antitrust in America
Visa-free travel
Carmakers and big tech
Steel and silicon
Bartleby
Creatures of habit
Social media in America...
Capitol gains
…and in China
Feuding film stars
Brands
Rolling in it
Schumpeter
Refashion model
Finance & economics


The global economy
Relapse and recovery
Surging commodities
The mountaineers
Buttonwood
Bucket list
Emerging markets (1)
A peak conquered
Emerging markets (2)
Joining the fray
The Big Mac index
Out of joint
Free exchange
It’s a bot time
Jobs at The Economist
We’re hiring
Science & technology


Space flight
The dustman cometh
Space-age materials
Hardy, non-perennial
Bacteriophages
A hitchhiker’s guide to the microverse
Thieving monkeys
Name your price
Repurposing drugs
A pair of aces
Books & arts


The aftermath of power
Conversations with a weirdo
Innovation and the state
Fly me to the Moon
A novel of the “dirty war”
Unquiet ghosts
Johnson
Fight like hell
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, markets and commodities
Graphic detail


Nutrition and health
The meat spot
Obituary


Brian Urquhart
The thin blue line