The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The pandemic
How well will vaccines work?
They will not simply eradicate covid-19. Governments need to start thinking about how to live with the virus

The world economy
Inflategate
How higher inflation could disrupt global economic policy

Human rights
How to talk about Xinjiang
“Genocide” is the wrong word for the horrors China is inflicting on the Uyghurs

Reducing child poverty
An end to exceptionalism
The White House and a prominent Republican senator propose to follow European schemes

Life, the universe and everything
Alien dreams
The search for ET may soon yield an answer

Letters

On Scotland, GameStop, markets, innovation, primaries, baseball, Rizlas
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Vaccine efficacy
Obstacle course
The race between vaccines and variants is heating up

Vaccine hesitancy
Broken arrow
Some people are unwilling to be vaccinated. That will be a problem

Astrobiology
Come out, come out, wherever you are!
If life exists beyond Earth, science may find it soon

Asia


The Tokyo Olympics
Olympic gory
Protests in Myanmar
Don’t putsch me
Banyan
Cool it or blow?
Bangladesh’s army
Wallets at the ready
Noise complaints in South Korea
Hell is other people
Geopolitics in the Pacific
Palm-fringed fury
China


Repression in Tibet
Accept these gifts, or else
Online debate
Suddenly, space for free-thinkers
Chaguan
Working together, but in parallel
United States


Congress
Swing voters
Social media and anti-vaxxers
Likes and protein spikes
Election administration
Count-22
Presidential libraries
The shrining
Oregon’s drugs policy
Trail blazers
America and China
Genocide aside
Lexington
Speak easy
Middle East & Africa


America and the Middle East
New sheriff in town
Libya
Fourth time lucky
The Horn of Africa
Adding to the chaos
Congolese politics
The president pounces
Kenya’s rose-tinted spectacle
Flower power
The Americas


Cuba and Venezuela
Practically perfect
Colombia
Activists amid anarchy
Bello
Ecuador’s politics of the negative
Europe


Education and covid-19
A tale of two colleges
France
The president’s dilemma
Turkey
Lesbian, gay, bi and terrorist?
Pets and covid-19
Canine crushes
Italian politics
No time for foot-Draghing
Charlemagne
They told you so
Britain


National Health Service
Hands on
Rule-breaking
Going underground
Sino-British relations
No longer glistening
Exporting vaccine
Good global citizens
Business and the economy
A firm footing
Travel restrictions
Grounded
Internal borders
No place like home
Bagehot
The price of acceptance
International


Freedom of speech
Inconvenient truths
Special report


The future of travel
The age of the wheelie-bag
The airline industry
No heads in the clouds
The environmental damage
Emission days
Business travel
Video-conferencing rules
Corporate jets
High flyers
Testing and vaccines
Well travelled
Tourism
The holiday only just began
The future
Faster, higher, longer
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Corporate earnings
Harbingers of boom
Unions v big tech
Labour coders
Privatisations in India
Flogging the family lead
Anglo-German business ties
From bad to wurst
Bartleby
Diary of a plague year
Schumpeter
Alpha pipers
Finance & economics


Emerging economies
Some pleasant fiscal arithmetic
Commodities
Twin peaks
Picking up pace
Inflation will rise in the coming months
Bank bosses
Fresh blood
Buttonwood
Crossbar challenge
Trade policy in America
Rinse and repeat
Free exchange
Targeting practice
Science & technology


The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Both ends against the middle
Oncology
Precisely!
Sustainable construction
Urban growth
Silicon chats
Conversational computers have come a long way
Books & arts


Scientists and aliens
Black-sky thinking
Robert Maxwell
A made-up life
Caste and gender in India
Death traps
Johnson
At a loss for words
Graphic detail


Covid-19 vaccines
Jabs and jab-nots
Obituary


Paul Crutzen
Seer of the Anthropocene
Economic Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets