America’s better future: No carbon and no blackouts

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Decarbonising America
America’s better future
This is the moment for an ambitious attempt to deal with climate change

Italy
Another chance
Mario Draghi’s appointment as prime minister is good for Italy and good for Europe

Capital-raising on Wall Street
Spactacular
SPACS are a mania—and a useful way to take firms public

India’s jobs market
Many hands, light work
A lower share of women are in work in India than in Saudi Arabia

Fighting jihadists
Macron’s African mission
France wants to avoid a “forever war” in the Sahel. That will take patience, and allies

Letters

On nuclear weapons, J.B. Priestley, China, covid-19, protests, Moore’s law, sheds
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Decarbonising America
The switch
America has done too little to fight rising temperatures. Joe Biden wants to change that

Asia


India’s labour market
200m jobs short
New Caledonia
Les Kanaks en marche
The coup in Myanmar
General strike
Lockdown in the Philippines
Suffer the little children
Banyan
The swing to the sultans
China


The vaccine roll-out
Sinovacillate
Pirated films
Winter is coming
Chaguan
How to kill a democracy
United States


A perfect storm
Light a candle for the kids
Impeachment
Marred but at largio
Talk radio
Tower of babble
Andrew Cuomo and the pandemic
Under pressure
Baltimore’s homes
Rescued charm
The ideas of the far right
Deadly inspirations
Lexington
John Kerry, eco-warrior
The Americas


Mexico’s president
The transformer
Women in Mexico
Tampon tempest
Bello
A case of mistaken identity
Middle East & Africa


France’s forever war
Which way out?
The International Criminal Court
The case against the prosecutor
Tree trade
Coconut shy
Angola’s economy
Oil, toil and spoils
Iranian politics
The agitator
The United Arab Emirates
Hope and despair
Europe


Italy and Europe
Whatever it takes
Catalonia votes
Variations on a nationalist theme
France
Protection plates
Russia’s propaganda war
Sympathy for the devil
Charlemagne
Dirty politics
Britain


Cutting carbon
Big on clean energy
Solar power
Here comes the sun
The politics of culture
Bonfire of the insanities
Growing cannabis
Pot luck
Covid-19
Here we go
Financial technology
Silicon wallet
Bagehot
Starmer stuck
Jobs at The Economist
We’re hiring
International


Touch and covid-19
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling
Business


Mobility in China
Trafficking dreams
Intel
Hard reboot
The record industry
Musical shares
Carmaking
ICEy conditions ahead
Glencore
Pit stop
Danone
Culture wars
Online shopping
South Korea’s baby Amazon
Bartleby
Back for good, or bad
Schumpeter
Red in tooth and clawback
Finance & economics


Capital markets
SPAC invasion
SPACs in Silicon Valley
Rain for the rainmakers
Great expectations
Economic forecasters are pencilling in heady growth rates
Stock exchanges
Advantage Amsterdam
Digital currencies
Token gestures
Trade
In search of a cure
Buttonwood
Jumping ship
Free exchange
Radiant energy
Science & technology


Gender medicine
Arrested development
Palaeontology
Very, very long in the tooth
Electric sailing
Of batteries and boats
Sleep research
The interpretation of dreams
Books & arts


Tackling climate change
The race to zero
Britain’s past and present
The sun never sets
Foreigners in Berlin
Unreal city
British fiction
Still lives
Korean listening habits
Exit music
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Monarchy and genetics
The reign in Spain
Obituary


Chick Corea
Music without limits