The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The pandemic in Europe
What has gone wrong?
The European Union has handled covid-19 poorly. Why, and what does it mean for the union?

Trade
Message in a bottleneck
Global supply chains are still a source of strength, not weakness

Israel
Breaking the stalemate
To unblock Israeli politics, get rid of the man in the way

Methane leaks
Put a plug in it
Governments should set targets to reduce methane emissions

The IMF and the pandemic
Special drawing wrongs
Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the filibuster, UN peacekeepers, climate change, covid-19, cats
Briefing

Europe and covid
The lack of needles and the damage done
The covid-19 pandemic was the kind of crisis that could push the EU forward. When it came to vaccines, it left Brussels carrying the blame

Encouraging the economy
Down to the wire
The details of the EU’s ambitious recovery plans are being finalised. It is not just their size that looks set to change the union

Asia


Japan and America
BFFs once more
Buddhism in Myanmar
Beggars, but choosers
Religion in Malaysia
In the name of God
Politics in South Korea
Masters of disillusion
Banyan
Talking the generals down
China


Sinifying Christianity
Clearing out the foreign
Coronavirus origins
Anywhere but here
Chaguan
China sees its moment
United States


Voting rights
Not so peachy
Vaccination nation
Winning the upper-arms race
Derek Chauvin
The trial begins
Governors in trouble (1): Gavin Newsom
The recall brawl
Governors in trouble (2): Andrew Cuomo
Crisis in Cuomolot
Ghost kitchens
Cooking up a business model
Juvenile criminal-justice
Locked up for life
Lexington
Bridges to somewhere
The Americas


Central America’s elite
Blood and money
Political dynasties in Nicaragua
Chamorro tomorrow?
Argentina’s debt deal
It takes two to disentangle
Middle East & Africa


Israel
Too many kingmakers
Free speech
Boarding up the clubhouse
Egypt
Always going big
Tanzania
Hoping for change
Poaching
Unhappy hunting grounds
Europe


France
Tanks again
Serbia
Vial stuff
Germany and covid-19
Who’s in charge?
Latvian poetry
Folk histories in four lines
Charlemagne
Netflix Europa
Britain


The Red Wall reconsidered
Barratt Britain
Economic growth
Beating expectations
Schools and sexual abuse
Girls aloud
Scotland
When separatists separate
The City
Cold dinner
Christianity
God the rock star
Bagehot
What’s to become of them?
International


Vaccines
Spreading the needle
Business


Commercial decoupling
Swept up in a storm
Commercial property
WeSurvive
Riding Hon Hai
Hon Hai, Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler, is eyeing cars
American newspapers
Who wants to be a press baron?
Bartleby
Their finest hours
Urban transport
Flying taxis take off at last
Schumpeter
Poker chips
Finance & economics


The Archegos affair
Margin call of the wild
The IMF
Performance anxiety
China’s lending
Neither predator nor pal
The scramble for commodities (1)
Mission critical
The scramble for commodities (2)
From the red earth
Buttonwood
The frog chorus
Free exchange
The underachiever
Science & technology


Global warming
The other greenhouse gas
Books & arts


Art and conquest
The spoils of war
The Peruvian Amazon
The wood from the trees
Writers’ lives
The human stained
Haunted fiction
Daze of the dead
Contemporary art
Cabin fever
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Car crashes
A dark conundrum
Obituary


Steven Spurrier
An Englishman in Paris