The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
What If?


If biohackers injected themselves with mRNA
Freedom to tinker
If America tackled its opioid crisis
The other epidemic
If a deadly heat wave hit India
A tale of two cities
If everyone’s nutrition was personalised
You are what you eat
If smartphones became personal health assistants
An Apple a day
If marmosets lived on the Moon
Mrs Chippy’s benediction
If dementia was preventable and treatable
Novel treatments
If an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine
Rage against the machine
If germ theory had caught on sooner
Germ of an idea
Leaders

After the pandemic
The long goodbye
The pandemic is still far from over, but glimpses of its legacy are emerging

Holding elections
The real risk to America’s democracy
Partisan election administration is a greater worry than voter suppression

Heatwaves
Mercury rising
How to protect people from the growing threat posed by extreme heat

Hong Kong as a financial centre
Code red
Hong Kong’s regulator is right to be wary of finance with Chinese characteristics

Europeans in Britain
A vote of confidence
Britain should encourage the 5m Europeans who want to settle to become citizens

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Afghanistan, Tesla, UNESCO, Brazil, Geordies
Briefing

Covid-19 variants
Coats of many colours
Evolution has complicated the covid-19 pandemic by providing a growing range of viral variants. They make global action yet more urgent

Asia


North Korea’s economy
Taking back control
South Indian politics
Meet the Dravidian Stalin
Hygiene and culture
Return to sento
Malaysian politics
Schrödinger’s government
Banyan
Hindustani at heart
China


The Chinese navy
Carry that weight
Youth culture
Giving up, lying down
Chaguan
It works until it doesn’t
United States


Republicans and elections
Razing Arizona
Title 42
Border disorder
UFOs
The truth is not out there
Lexington
There goes the neighbourhood
The Americas


Cuba
Serve the people
Indigenous Canadians
Searching for the truth
Bello
Mestizaje, reality and myth
Middle East & Africa


Covid-19 in Africa
Third time unlucky
South Africa
Another kind of capture
Ethiopia’s civil war
Defeat in the mountains
Egypt and Gaza
Sisi sees an opportunity
Food in the Gulf
Kitchen inconsequential
Europe


Germany, Greece and Turkey
Shifting the balance
Foreign aid
Unsustained development goals
Montenegro
Darkness shrouds the mountain
Obituary: Dick Leonard
Mr Europe
Charlemagne
Politics by other means
Britain


EU migrants
The five million
Anti-lockdown protests
Opposites attract
Economic statistics
A piece of the puzzle
Government subsidies
Helping handout
Pet theft
Paw patrol
City lawyers
Suiting up
Pity the drug-peddler
Dealing, with stress
Bagehot
The comeback kid
International


Home entertainment
The attention recession
Business


The future of offices (1)
A hybrid new world
The future of offices (2)
Edifice complexities
Big tech and antitrust
Is Facebook a monopolist?
Bartleby
The perils of PR
The film business
Curtain-raiser
Schumpeter
Raining on the parade
Finance & economics


The economics of lockdowns
Lives v livelihoods
House prices in America
On the simmer
Banks in Hong Kong
Culture clash
Buttonwood
Carrying on
Free exchange
A decade of Chinese lessons
Science & technology


Urban environments
The constant gardener
Medical testing
Virtually real
Palaeoanthropology
A new human species?
Books & arts


Exploration and conquest
The ocean within
New British fiction
Home sweet home
Memory and mourning
In the name of the son
The future of war
Computer says go
Johnson
Check your privilege
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Pandemic lifestyles
Back to the future
Obituary


Milkha Singh
Running as religion