The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The green boom
Bunged up
A great green investment boom is under way. Bottlenecks are an underappreciated problem

The G7 summit
Inoculation, inoculation, inoculation
For all their talk about international co-operation, America and its allies are failing the world

Latin America
Peru in peril
A failure to reform is poised to produce a lurch to the far left

Corporate tax
A new architecture
A less loophole-riddled system for taxing multinationals is within reach

Dementia research
False positive
The approval of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s is premature, risky and wrong

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Israel and Palestine, the MOVE, European startups, evictions, Argentina, Yuan Longping, Chinese
Briefing

Conditions for green growth
Missing ingredients
Investments in renewables are ramping up. But bottlenecks in supply chains, site approvals and finance could still hobble deep reductions in emissions

Asia


Afghanistan after America
1989 and all that
Trouble in Sri Lanka
Push the boat out
The pandemic in India
Multiply by six
Vaccine lotteries in the Philippines
Have a cow, man
Banyan
Quad wrangle
China


The legal system
Who watches the watchmen?
Museums
Build big, show little
Chaguan
Foreigners inside the Great Wall
United States


Literacy
The reading wars
Immigration enforcement
Lowering the bar
Portland
Plaid shirts and plywood
Hispanics and QAnon
Conspiracy as a second language
College life
Dorm norms
Lexington
Sinema’s technicolour moderation
Middle East & Africa


Iranian politics
The rise of Raisi
Morocco
Pottery in pieces
Migration
Go west, habibi
Social media in Nigeria
Do not rinse and retweet
Mauritania
Turning over a new leaf
Facing famine in Tigray
Hunger as a weapon
The Americas


Peru
The man with the straw hat
Mexico’s elections
Clipped wings
Nicaragua’s opposition
Democratic deficit
CoronaVac chronicles
Now for some good news
Europe


NATO
Summit season
Naval power
Found at sea
Sex and gender
Trans-national
Narcotics in Europe
Party lines
Italy and climate change
How green is my Draghi?
Charlemagne
The many faces of Sebastian Kurz
Britain


The job market
Something to celebrate
Rural life
Carry on glamping
Sterling assets
Gilt-y pleasure
Northern Ireland
Green gold
Youth justice
Chained to the desk
Politics
Tory trouble?
Climate change
Dirty pretty things
Bagehot
Geordie Tory
International


The globalisation of politics
What’s the Japanese for QAnon?
Business


Inflation in America Inc
Less for more
Supersonic passenger jets
Boom time?
Medical technology
Booster shot
The return of the mega-LBO
Dealing with abundance
Digital markets
New rules of the road
Bartleby
Working hard for the money
Schumpeter
Gadflies in the boardroom
Finance & economics


Asset management
Chasing a pot of gold
Inflation
Paid in China
Commercial property
Vacancies in the Village
Cryptocurrencies
Beating bitcoin
Buttonwood
Going Dutch
Free exchange
Finding the perfect match
Science & technology


Alzheimer’s disease
Faint hopes
Nuclear power
Atoms for greenery
Wildlife conservation
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Mass extinctions
Vanishing act
Space cadets
Jeff Bezos’s flight of fancy
Quantum engineering
Cool thinking
Books & arts


The future of theatre
The turning world
Art and activism
A place in the country
Guns and race
Double standard
Tech fiction
Paradise lost
The trouble with history
Missing pieces
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


American politics
House of unrepresentatives
Obituary


Ganga Stone
Tales of love and death