The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Russia’s future
Putin’s next move
Russia’s president menaces his people and neighbours. The West should raise the cost of his malign behaviour

The pandemic in India
Covid catastrophe
India’s giant second wave is a disaster for it and the world

Germany’s election
September showdown
The battle to succeed Angela Merkel just got interesting

Bubbly Wall Street
The SPAC spectacle
Snatching sanity from the jaws of financial absurdity

Chad
The false promise of stability
The violent death of Idriss Déby has unsettled a region—and a Western policy of propping up strongmen

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the EU, Altamira, American English, methane, data, workers
Briefing

Putin’s Russia
Something is rotten
The Russian president is growing ever more repressive. That is largely because he is losing support

The Russian economy
Under siege
The Kremlin has isolated Russia’s economy, protecting it from shocks but choking growth

Asia


India’s surging outbreak
First as tragedy
Politics in India
The road show must go on
Pakistan’s religious extremists
A government held to ransom
Australian place names
Nominal interest
Kyrgyzstan’s referendum
Back to the khanate?
Banyan
Tug of war
China


Hacking China
Watching them watching you
Health care
Dangerous work
Hong Kong crackdown
The end of the road
Chaguan
Art attack
United States


Foreign policy under Joe Biden
Overload
Joe Biden’s climate summit
Promising the Earth
Derek Chauvin’s trial
Two degrees and reparation
Transgender treatments
Blocked
Walter Mondale dies aged 93
Reassessing a would-be president
Religion in America
Baptism by fire
Lexington
The Great Game
The Americas


Immigration to Canada
A wider welcome
Vaccine queue jumping
Kicking covid
Guatemala’s courts
Domino effect
Bello
After the myth, the grim facts
Middle East & Africa


Covid-19 in Africa
Doses of scepticism
Chad
The dictator dies
Stateless in Zimbabwe
Papers, please
Saudi Arabia
The prince’s big bet
Transport in Egypt
Daily disasters
Europe


Germany
Green on black
Finland’s universities
Mind the gap year
The EU and AI
The Brussels effect
Covid-19 and the Netherlands
Terraced grousing
Charlemagne
The Draghi delusion
Britain


Commercial law
Ruling the world
Darktrace
Out of the shadows
Museums
Empty halls
Mortgages
Regulator says no
Housing
When Generation Rent retires
Drug deaths in Scotland
In need of a fix
Bagehot
Football Tories
International


Women in war
Officers and gentlewomen
Business


The sports business
They think it’s all over
The energy transition
The gaseous mega-bet
Business software
The robots are coming
Bartleby
The new office etiquette
The future of carmaking
The non-motor show
Pharmaceuticals
Lab life
Schumpeter
Modi operandi
Finance & economics


Economic sanctions
Handle with care
Buttonwood
The art of war
Bad debt in China
Righting Huarong
Isaiah Andrews
Model behaviour
Emerging markets
The wave v the tantrum
Amundi
Alpha plus
Free exchange
Protection racket
Science & technology


Covid-19 and the Defence Production Act
A vaxxing problem
Coffee and climate change
Stimulated thinking
Evolutionary stasis
Gold bug
Cancer research
An inward observatory
Aeronautics on Mars
The Wright stuff
Books & arts


Kudos in the arts
And the winner is…who cares?
Peacekeeping
Local heroes
Schumpeter’s heirs
Innovate to accumulate
Johnson
Woof’s the word
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Suicides
Welcome reprieve
Obituary


Bernard Madoff
Just one big lie