The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The rise of e-money
The digital currencies that matter
Government-run virtual currencies are coming. They are a giant risk that is worth taking

Gun laws in America
Bearing harms
Permitless-carry gun laws are misguided and should be scrapped

Warren Buffett
Time’s up
The Oracle of Omaha should look to the future and step aside at Berkshire Hathaway

Somaliland
A state of one’s own
After 30 years of running itself, Somaliland deserves international recognition

German law and climate policy
The power of negative thinking
How to make long-term emissions pledges add up

Letters

Letters to the editor
On politics and business, Saudi Arabia, crowdsourcing, the draft, Singapore, football
Briefing

The creator economy
Serfing the web
Social-media platforms used to get most of their content for free. Now creators command a price, and online power is shifting

Asia


India’s second wave
Paper tiger
City administration in India
Urbs prima in Indis
Korean vibes
Let there be mood lighting
Charity in the Philippines
Reds under the veg
Development in Bangladesh
Thirst trap
Banyan
Closing argument
China


Propaganda
The new scold war
Plastic surgery
Nipping and tucking
Chaguan
Resistance is not futile
United States


Permitless-carry gun laws
The firearms free-for-all
Facebook and Donald Trump
Speechless
Renting v buying
The house wins
Waiting
Time and money
Tech trade policy
Assuming the position
Unsolved murders in St Louis
Crime without punishment
Lexington
A shad state of affairs
The Americas


El Salvador
Bukele’s bulldozer
A terrible accident in Mexico City
Mexico City’s metro
Protests in Colombia
Taxing times
Bello
Whose fish are they anyway?
Middle East & Africa


Somaliland
Out of the rubble, 30 years on
Cleaner cookery
Fire escape
Vaccine manufacturing in Africa
Home brewing
Qatar’s labour laws
Free to quit
The war in Yemen
Peace on hold
Arab elections
How despots pick their opponents
Europe


Spain
From rage to disillusion
Germany and climate
Red in robe, green in thought
Ireland and Brexit
Pluses and minuses
France and terrorism
Reform or relapse?
Turkey’s lockdown
Erdogan’s no-wine situation
Charlemagne
The anti-Orban
Britain


Sadiq v Boris
Why London’s bridge is falling down
Body parts
Water, water everywhere
Brexit
Fish fight with France
Discount retailing
The omnivore
Life sciences
A new recruit
Trains
The fat controller
International


Organised crime online
Spam, scam, scam, scam
Special report


The future of banking
Fewer—or even none?
Banks v big tech
Regime change
Debt v equity
Intangible capitalism
Low interest rates
Time is cheap
Public v private money
Going public
Monetary sovereignty
Hege-money
Money on my mind
A brave new world
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Berkshire Hathaway
Honky Tonk Warren
Bartleby
The human touch
Vaccine patents
A shot in the arm
Ageing consumers
The boomer boom
Epic Games v Apple
Battle royal
Schumpeter
Losing the mystique
Finance & economics


China’s digital money
The new yuan: a lot like the old yuan
Foreign banks in America
Farce and furious
Buttonwood
Red hot
Greece
Clean-up operation
Women and investing
Rich pickings
The economics of prisons
The parent trap
Free exchange
Escape from the city
Science & technology


Back-ups for GPS
Locking out the bad guys
An early burial
Human prehistory
Ecology
Roadkill stew
Biomarkers for depression
Unlucky 13
Civil engineering
How to knit a road
Books & arts


“The Brothers Karamazov” on stage
Sins of the fathers
Allusive fiction
Second is nowhere
Renaissance art
A world of wonders
Pandemics and other disasters
With a whimper
Johnson
Tongue-twisters
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Pollution and poverty
Why east has least
Obituary


Michael Collins
The third man