Biden’s big gamble: What a $1.9 trillion stimulus means for the world economy

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The world economy
Biden’s big gamble
This week’s extraordinary stimulus is a high-stakes bet for America and the world

Politics
How to renew America’s democracy
Voting reform and scrapping the filibuster would help

Vaccine passports
Needle to know
Identity schemes have a part to play in the return to life as normal, but only a modest one

Human rights
How to curb violence against women
A good start would be to stigmatise it

The transformation of retailing
21st-century consumers
New shopping behaviours should be welcomed, not feared

Benefiting from Brexit
Growing apart
Brexit brings precious few advantages, but there are some. The government should exploit them

Letters

Letters to the editor
On innovation, Charles II of Spain, touching, travel, beliefs
Briefing

The filibuster
Motion to dismiss
The filibuster is an oddity that harms American democracy

The use of supermajorities elsewhere
Less than overwhelming
Most countries want nothing to do with the filibuster

Asia


Covid-19 in India
Getting off lightly
Beauty treatments in Afghanistan
Vanity at war
Human rights in North Korea
In the dark
American forces in Asia
Dispersal orders
Banyan
No way forwards—or back
China


Five-year plan
The big target
Hong Kong politics
Democracy, China’s way
Chaguan
Why the internet hasn’t freed China
United States


The battle over voting laws
Heads we win, tails you cheated
Gerrymandering
House that?
Press freedom
Midwestern nasty
Plane expensive
The sky-high cost of drones
Tribes of the Hamptons
White shoes and slot machines
Economic experiments
Taking stock of Stockton
Lexington
The wild man of the mountains
Middle East & Africa


Syria
A country divided
The oil trade
Ghost ships and dollar scrip
Senegal
Botching the beacon
The Ibrahim prize
A gift seldom given
Somalia’s politics
Guns, terms and stealing power
Working from the beach house
Keyboard surfers
The Americas


Canada and China
Hostage diplomacy
Mexico’s pampered pets
The dogs are all right
Brazilian politics
Back in the game
Bello
Forward into the darkness
Europe


Covid-19
Jab-seekers
Italy
Demolition Draghi
Rent controls in Berlin
A disaster foretold
German state elections
A green light for “traffic-light” coalitions
European censuses
Gotta find ’em all
Charlemagne
If you can’t beat them, join them
Britain


That interview
Taking on the firm
How racist is Britain?
By royal disappointment
Brexit
A new orbit
Brexit
A deep hole
Northern Ireland’s loyalists
A polite threat
Television news
Eyes right
Farming and eating
A new landscape
International


Violence against women
A terrible toll
Nicaragua’s success
Hope for tomorrow
Special report


The future of shopping
One-to-one commerce
The marketplace
Deplatforming
The merchants
Rise of the rebels
The travelling salesmen
Arming the rebels
The food stall
Omnivores
Mass craftsmanship
Made to measure
People
Servants and masters
The future
Land left to conquer
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Bartleby
When common sense fails
Rupert Murdoch at 90
Next up
Computer games
School’s out
Jet engines
Losing thrust
Film-making
Go small
Corporate climate reporting
Telling all
Japanese business
Japan Inc goes digital
Schumpeter
Jack Dorsey’s split personality
Finance & economics


The world economy
The $3trn question
Oil prices
High and tight
Buttonwood
Winter’s tale
Trade
Shots fired
Lies, damned lies and implied lies
“Real” growth in China
Liquefied natural gas
The polar silk road
Fintech in China
Mood swing
Free exchange
Many hats
Science & technology


Easing the lockdowns
Back to normality?
Books & arts


Democracy in Turkey
The never-ending coup
Russian fiction
The poisoner’s tale
Ballroom dancing
The door to a hundred joys
Women in New York
A room of their own
Johnson
Minty fresh
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 risk
One size fits few
Obituary


Mourid Barghouti
The pain of displacement