The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Arms control
Who will go nuclear next?
The world is facing an upsurge of proliferation. To stop it, nuclear powers need to act

Europe’s lockdown
Shot in the foot
Fussy decision-making has slowed Europe’s vaccine roll-out—and threatens its economy

World trade
The folly of Buy American
President Biden’s protectionism sullies his economic agenda

The Palestinians
Time for Abbas to go
New leadership is needed both in the West Bank and in Gaza

America in Asia
Free not to choose
In its rivalry with China, America should not force Asians to pick sides

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Donald Trump, Lincolnshire, Switzerland, Erasmus
Briefing

Nuclear proliferation
Who’s next?
Nuclear proliferation is not fast. But it is still frightening

Asia


Asia and America
Relief tinged with scepticism
Mongolia
Snowflake surrender
Japanese politics
Suga slumps
Organised crime
Ice lord
Banyan
Hard to account for
China


Trade-union reform
Precariat unite!
African students
School’s out
Chaguan
Becoming more Chinese
United States


The Biden administration
Ctrl+Z
Vaccinations
Access denied
Pickleball
The new, old thing
Impeachment 2.0
Getting away with it
Trans women in prisons
Prisoners’ dilemma
Off-piste skiing
Lifts-off
Lexington
QAnon and other delusions
Middle East & Africa


The Palestinians
To the polls
Morocco
Sex, lies and videotape
African diets
Feast and famine
Mining in Africa
A tale of two billionaires
The Americas


Ecuador
A worrying windfall
Colombia
Bootleg bonanza
Europe


Europe’s vaccine rows
Shots fired
Vaccinations in France
Pasteur’s lament
Italy
Going, going…
Germany
Wheezing
Turkey
A cult leader gets 1,000 years in jail
Charlemagne
Eastern Europe’s brain gain
Britain


Scotland
Searching for the exit
Language
Learning the drill
Trade deals
Nice work
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Madness at the border
Hong Kong
Give me your wealthy
Halting infections
Dirty stop outs
Space plans
Unst, we have a problem
Bagehot
Party of colour
International


Risk-taking
Last of the daredevils
Business


Family firms
Mittelstand-off
Sverige AB and China
Stockholm syndrome
Big tech’s banner year
Apple’s quarterly sales exceed $100bn for the first time
Online media
Big tech down under
Middle Eastern commerce
Abrahamic profits
Starbucks
Espresso lane
Oil-services firms
Will baby drill?
Job titles
Hail to the “chiefs”
Bartleby
You’ll often walk alone
Schumpeter
The state bird of Washington, DC
Finance & economics


China’s property market
The great escape
Belt-tightening
Acting less big
Buy American
Building block
Market mania
Will the GameStop?
Buttonwood
Time warp
Indian banking
Can cannot be kicked further
Free exchange
The fight over fifteen
Science & technology


Competition and innovation
TV’s tech wars
Television audio
In your face
Cell cultures as pet food
Try it on the dog
Books & arts


Immigration
The best of both worlds
Johnson
Stress tests
Geography and history
Heave-ho
Music in space
We are the world
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Air pollution
Midnight sky
Obituary


Hank Aaron
Hammering through