The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The Biden presidency
Morning after in America
The 46th president takes office at a grim time. Things could soon look up

Technology and geopolitics
Betting all the chips
The geopolitical struggle for supremacy in chips is entering a new and dangerous phase

Vaccination
A marathon ahead
Even as governments sprint to get vaccination done, they need to keep an eye on what comes next

Russia
The return
The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny

Ethiopia’s civil war
Wielding hunger as a weapon
Abiy Ahmed’s government appears to be trying to starve a rebel region into submission

Letters

Letters to the editor
On vaccination, primaries, bannock, malaria, Malawi, conversation, potatoes
Briefing

The 46th presidency
Good luck, Joe
After the chaos of the Trump era, what can the new president hope to achieve?

Asia


Inoculating Asians against covid-19
A call for arms
Assassinations in Afghanistan
Negotiating with terrorists
Politics in Vietnam
Hammered and sickled
Anime films in Japan
Record slayer
Banyan
Pastoral care
China


Relations with America
Xinjiang’s shadow
Social media
Wolf taming
Chaguan
Seizing the moment, cautiously
United States


Schools and covid-19
Slight return
Educating minority students
Obstacle coursework
Vaccinating America
Here’s how
Pennsylvania politics
The four-point touchdown
The gun lobby
In the line of fire
The death penalty
Final throes
Lexington
Back to the future
The Americas


Canada
Careless behaviour
Brazil
A second wave of misery in Manaus
Middle East & Africa


Ethiopia
War and hunger
Congo’s coltan smugglers
Dodging the “Obama law”
Equatorial Guinea and the IMF
Who will blink first?
Qatar and Turkey
The special relationship
Iran
The not-so-Shia state
Tunisia
Free but fed up
Egypt
Hot cakes
Europe


Russia
Into the lion’s den
Germany’s Christian Democrats
Steady, as she goes
Arms control
Grounded
The Dutch welfare state
The fraud that wasn’t
Poland
How clams fight pollution
Charlemagne
Lessons from the vaccine race
Britain


Vaccination politics
Restoring the faith
Working from home
Spread of the shed
Covid-19
Papers, please
Schools and lockdown
Steep learning curve
Brexit and telecoms
The right to roam
Brexit
Going off
Retail
The wrong kind of sales
Bagehot
Think small
International


Messaging services
Global grapevines
Special report


Chinese youth
Generation Xi
The rural-urban divide
Homecoming
Patriotism and the party
Partygoers
Subcultures
How to rebel in China
Views of the world
A bale of sea turtles
Values, identity and activism
The lives of others
Children of the revolution
Circling the square
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Semiconductors
A new architecture
Bartleby
Hear, hear
Carmaking
Electric shock and awe
Business schools
The class of covid-19
Schumpeter
Sberbank’s second pirouette
Finance & economics


America’s recovery
Fire without fury
Inflation
Bottlenecks
Wall Street’s banks
Topsy turvy
China’s economy
Southern tiger
Cross-border crime
Tilting the scales
Buttonwood
University challenge
Free exchange
Hard lessons
Science & technology


Covid-19 vaccines
The time has come
Chinese covid vaccines
Shots in the dark
Aquaculture
Godzilla the rotifer
Making oxygen
Magnetic moment
Mice
Country bumpkins and city slickers
Books & arts


Human capital
Trouble in the country
American foreign policy
Satan’s slips
Protest art
Walls have eyes
Twisted genius
The lives of others
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Vaccination
Gift of the jab
Obituary


Two voices of sanity
Counsels of imperfection