The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Climate change
No safe place
The extremes of flood and fire are not going away, but adaptation can lessen their impact

The growth scare
Delta’s beta
The Delta variant is the biggest of several risks to America’s economy

Saving South Africa
End of the road for ANCnomics
Two decades of corruption and misgovernment are the real cause of the crisis

Tax in America
Internal affairs
Fund the IRS properly. But also make taxes simpler

Scientific ethics
Brainstorming
Liberal democracies should not cede ethically troubling neuroscience to China

Letters

Letters to the editor
On lockdowns, Ethel Rosenberg, public relations, economics, seaweed, translating, space flight
Briefing

The three-degree world
Burning down the house
Even if greenhouse-gas emissions are slashed, there is still a chance of crashing through the Paris agreement’s climate targets. What would that look like?

Asia


India’s economy
Chronic condition
Corruption in Kazakhstan
Get jabbed? Get stuffed!
Covid-19 in Australia
Lock me down at your peril
Myanmar’s opposition
Government of national disunity
Banyan
The changing face of Japan
China


Academic freedom in Hong Kong
Unhallowed halls
Floods in Henan
A deluge in China has killed more than 30 and caused terror
Surfing
Mother ocean
United States


Housing
Boombust
Chinese cyber-attacks
Ctrl-alt-denounce
The IRS
Seeking revenue
Texas’s new abortion law
Lubbock or leave it
Lexington
The rise of Ron DeSantis
Middle East & Africa


Amid the rubble
The shaming of South Africa
Syria’s economy
Narco-state on the Med
Water
Dry and disorderly
The Americas


Trying to get ahead
The squeezed middle
Brazil’s brain drain
Out the door
Canada’s drug laws
High stakes
Europe


Germany
After the floods
French labour shortages
A la carte
Poland
The return of the Donald
Crime in Sweden
Guns galore
Charlemagne
Minority rights and wrongs
Britain


Covid-19
Fighting for their right to party
Schools and covid-19
Summer blues
Roads and the environment
Going to seed
Betting their shirts
How Premier League shirt sponsors have changed
The Labour Party
Starmerist Regime
Ornonomics
Doveish policy
Bagehot
Boris at two
International


Primate research
Monkey business
Business


Netflix
Season 3, coming soon
The hydrogen business
Burning clean
Social media
LinkedOut
Bartleby
How to lead from afar
Technology
Unicornucopia
Schumpeter
War war v jaw jaw
Finance & economics


The uncertain economic recovery
Mixed messages
Stimulus programmes
Peering down the cliff-edge
The Delta effect
Hemmed in
Climate resilience
Overlooked no more
Buttonwood
A tiger’s tale
The Big Mac index
The happiest meal
Free exchange
War and peace
Science & technology


Renewable energy
Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights
Air conditioning
Cool ideas
Gold, fool’s and real
Interior decorations
Billionaire astronauts
Jeffrey Bezos goes into space
Books & arts


The history of work
What a way to make a living
Sex and censorship
Uneasy virtue
A Baltic travelogue
The wrong side of history
Journalism in Africa
Open letters
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Vaccine hesitancy
Two roads diverged
Obituary


Yang Huaiding
Eating the crab