The world this week

Business this week
Politics this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The global economy
Dashed hopes
Unrest and economic underperformance stalk the emerging world. The key to better times remains openness

China’s tech-bashing
Get poor quickly
China’s crackdown on the online-education business marks a turning-point

Tunisia
Relighting a beacon of democracy
The way out of Tunisia’s crisis

Biological origami
Proteinotopia
Remarkable progress in understanding the folding of proteins will help open up almost limitless vistas

The Philippines
How not to deal with China
Rodrigo Duterte’s China policy has shown the folly of appeasement

Letters

Letters to the editor
On China, Eswatini, climate change, Afghanistan, the Olympics
Briefing

20 years of BRICs
A mixed-up slowdown
The prospects for developing countries are not what they were

Asia


Race relations in Singapore
Imperfect harmony
South Korea’s cultural exports
Striding the universe
Politics in the Philippines
Preparing for posterity
Samoa’s new government
Slow ride to FAST rule
Banyan
Seven-headed scandal
China


Nuclear weapons
Xi’s shells?
Hong Kong’s national-security law
Tough justice
Chaguan
The politics of floods
United States


The unvaccinated
Beyond the pandemic blame game
Attitudes to the vaccine
Hesitancy in numbers
The infrastructure bill
It’s a deal
American forces in the Middle East
Eyeing the exits
Cocktails-to-go
Fancy a Fauci Pouchy?
Lexington
Insurrection revisionism
The Americas


Peru
A gallop into the unknown
Argentina
Gender-setters
Continental defence
Eyes in the ice
Middle East & Africa


Tunisia
Arab democracy’s fading star
Jordan
Being boring has its advantages
Israel
Letting Pegasus fly
Nigeria’s cuisine
Locust beans are back
War in Tigray
Down from the mountains
Europe


The south of France
California dreaming
Albania
Unimpeded flows the Vjosa
Dry bars of Ireland
Filling in the craics
Afghans in Turkey
Point of no return
Charlemagne
Meet the proverbial voters
Britain


Northern Ireland’s segregated schools
Pick and mix
Catholic culture
Loose and lacy
Cricket
Bowl fast and break things
Trade
Doing a disservice
Covid-19
Taking liberties
London’s flooding
Live by the river
Bagehot
The new normal
International


Protests and covid-19
It’s catching
Business


Bartleby
Jargon abhors a vacuum
Big tech
Faceworld
Big agriculture
Field day
Chinese capitalism
Marxism v markets
Finance & economics


Retail investing
Robinhood and the merry mob
Fossil fuels
Fired up
Inflation in Turkey
Pick a number
Plumbing the depths
Real bond yields fall
Bankruptcy in China
Sympathy for the debtor
Nigerian fintech
Out of the slump
Buttonwood
Pulling tight
Free exchange
Establishing the cause of death
Schools brief


Proteins and nucleic acids
Chains and reactions
Science & technology


Aircraft engines
Back to prop swinging
How science works
Methods and madness
Screening for disease
The nose knows
Books & arts


Creativity and identity
A sculptor’s world
Leïla Slimani’s new novel
Land and freedom
China’s grand strategy
Seeking world domination
The Congo-Océan Railway
Blood on the tracks
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Infrastructure
Old town road
Obituary


Steven Weinberg
Nature’s laws