The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Bright side of the moonshots
Science after the pandemic
Covid-19 has brought together medical technologies that will transform human health

Emerging markets
Unanchored by Ankara
Turkey’s walk on the wild side holds lessons for other economies

Online commerce
Fintech comes to America, at last
A digital-payments system that favours consumers, not banks and credit-card firms, is long overdue

Bangladesh at 50
Mid-life crisis
The country has come an astonishingly long way, but progress may be stalling

Brain injuries
Knocked out and locked up
A huge share of people in prison have brain injuries. They need more help

Letters

Letters to the editor
On nuclear power, Namibia, Uber, jury trials, beer, Bob Dylan
Briefing

Nucleic-acid medicine
A new phaRNAcopoeia
Cometh the hour, cometh the molecule. The covid-19 pandemic has given RNA a long-awaited turn in the medical spotlight

Asia


Bangladesh turns 50
From rags to stitches
Reinventing rural South Korea
Purple pose
Politics in Cambodia
Stack ’em high
Chinese-Indians
The Kolkata clan
India’s ruling party
Downgrading Delhi
Banyan
Gratitude-resistant strains
China


The Olympics
Winter of discontent
Weather modification
No silver lining
Chaguan
Still a man’s world
United States


Violence in America
A modern murder mystery
State of the unions
The battle of Bessemer
Jobless data
Wild claims
Patronage games
Situations vacant
Fashion police
A coded message
Drought in the West
Let it snow
Lexington
The God-shaped hole
Middle East & Africa


The great Rwanda debate
Paragon or prison?
The war in Yemen
Smoke and no ceasefire
Iran and Iraq
Trouble with the neighbours
See you again in August
Israel’s election has not broken the deadlock
The Americas


Covid-19 in Brazil
Variants on a theme of disaster
Peru’s election
And then there were lots
The Squamish Nation
It was their backyard first
Bello
An unhappy 30th birthday
Europe


Turkey
Erdogan’s own goal
Vaccine exports
To have and to hold
Italy
Of property rights and dead popes
Spanish politics
The Madrid breakwater
Charlemagne
The odd couple
Britain


Britain and the European Union
Cross-channel conflict
Asylum
Tiers for fears
Defence cuts
Power rangers
Scottish politics
Defying gravity
Scottish independence
Madame Ecosse
Employment
To be young was very hell
Firefighting
No smoke, no fire
Bagehot
Dizzy rascal
International


Brain injuries and crime
Banged up
Technology Quarterly


A year of learning dangerously
The great reveal
Testing and tracing
Situational awareness
Treatments
Finding what works
Vaccination
Like nothing that has happened before
Tracking evolution
Know your enemy
Forecasting
All in the blood
Smoother sailing
A thing of brightness
Acknowledgments and further reading
Business


Manufacturing in America
Firing on all cylinders
A Suez crisis
Chokehold
Entertainment
Billing, billing
A lean year
Saudi Aramco’s profits decline—but not the dividend
German-Russian business
The last bridge
Bartleby
The great divide
The ultra-rich
A plutocratic makeover
Schumpeter
Herbie goes electric
Finance & economics


Inflation expectations
A different kind of fluke
Climate finance
It is not so easy being green
Asian economies
Power in reserves
German capital markets
A new master for the watchdog
Digital payments
Scaling the peak
Buttonwood
Jay-talking
Free exchange
Just the few of us
Science & technology


Aerial warfare
Blue-sky thinking
Sexual selection and speciation
Choice and determinism
Life, the universe and everything
Beauty spots
Books & arts


Rwanda and its leader
Behind the mask
A history of constitutions
The writes of man
Lives of the gangsters
King of the desert
Myanmar’s secrets
Shards of light
Johnson
The memory hole
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Film and racism
A tarnished silver screen
Obituary


Nawal El-Saadawi
The uses of anger