The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Cyber-security
Broadbandits
The new age of cyber-attacks could have huge economic costs

The Biden-Putin summit
Worth the air miles
The meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin was a small step forward

Corporate governance
The benefits of foresight
Investors in technology firms too often put up with ropy corporate governance. They may come to regret it

Iraq
Peace gives a chance
Some steps that Iraqis could take towards building a functioning state

Northern Ireland
Protocol problems
Britain and the European Union should seek compromise over Northern Irish trade

Letters

Letters to the editor
On gold and bitcoin, buses, air conditioning, greenwashing, China
Briefing

Cybersecurity
Over there in the shadows
A spate of ransomware hacks highlights the challenges governments face as they try to defend themselves—and attack others—online

Asia


Politics in India
The Modi blues
Politics in South Korea
Sausage party
Covid-19 in Singapore
Fever cabins
Elections in Mongolia
One-horse race
Banyan
Wet winds of change
China


Hong Kong’s media
No news is bad news
Tit-for-tat struggles
Try this for size
Chaguan
Is China serious about the climate?
United States


Joe Biden’s legislative agenda
Look at Joe not go
Pipeline politics
Keystone chimera
Southern Baptists
A house divided
Joe Biden and antitrust
Yes they Khan
The Golden State’s budget
Gavin Newsom’s wild ride
State governors
Checking and balancing
Lexington
And in the blue corner
The Americas


Migration
A destination in its own right
Moving to Mexico
The Latin American dream
Venezuela and Iran
Gunboat diplomacy
Bello
Latin America’s silent tragedy
Middle East & Africa


Iraq
Thirsting for change
Israel
New man in charge
Elections in Ethiopia
Abiy’s coronation
Africa’s orbital ambitions
Taking off
Europe


The Biden-Putin summit
A whiff of détente
Albania
Pyramid scheme
Climate politics in Germany
Grant me greenery, but not yet
Charlemagne
The EU: Made in America
Britain


Brexit and Northern Ireland
Border trouble
Policing
Aftermath of a murder
Diversity and inclusion
Stonewalling
Horse breeding
Neigh laughing matter
Covid-19
The British warning
Retail parks
Clicks and mortar
Military reserves
Not your dad’s army
Bagehot
The two cultures, revisited
International


Poverty
Rich slum, poor slum
Technology Quarterly


Protecting biodiversity
The other environmental emergency
Sensors and sensibility
The new web of life
DNA analysis
Cracking the code
Crowdsourced science
The wisdom of crowds
Ecosystem modelling
Simulating everything
De-extinction
Back from the dead
The role of policy
Bridging the gap
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


SoftBank
The empire of Son
Cosmetics
Down and up in lipstick valley
The ownership of India Inc
Short circuit
Bartleby
Timing is everything
Schumpeter
Track and minefield
Finance & economics


The world economy
The jabs and the jab-nots
Housing in America
A prettier picture
Buttonwood
Chasing the dragon
Risky debt in America
The junk heap
Cyber-heists
The new bank robbers
Free exchange
Stay of execution
Science & technology


Uncrewed aerial vehicles
Drones off the leash
Why Betelgeuse dimmed
Astronomy
Coelacanths
Curiouser and curiouser
Covid drugs
Antibody of evidence
Microecology
A midsummer bug hunt
Motor-neuron disease
A question of sport?
Books & arts


America’s pandemic
On both its houses
Revenge fantasies
Victim, complex
A library burns
The fire this time
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan
Car trouble
Johnson
Only translate
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Computer hardware
Pay to play
Obituary


Edward de Bono
Sideways on