The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Open-source intelligence
The people’s panopticon
Open-source intelligence is a welcome threat to malefactors and governments with something to hide

Chipmaking
A self-solving problem
Markets, not nationalism and subsidies, are the cure for the chip shortage

Democracy in Africa
Zambia’s crucial election
Hakainde Hichilema deserves to be elected, but the world should prepare for a rigged vote

Regulating cryptocurrencies
Unstablecoins
Why regulators should treat some cryptocurrencies like banks

Developing vaccines
Vaxelerando
Scientists responded rapidly to the pandemic. Next time they could be even faster

Letters

Letters to the editor
On life sentences, Syria, germs, eggcorns
Briefing

Open-source intelligence
Trainspotting, with nukes
Academics, activists and passionate amateurs are making use of intelligence capabilities once reserved for superpowers

Asia


Climate change
Moving story
Human-animal conflict
Snakes in the city
The Tokyo Olympics
That 2021 feeling
Covid-19 in Myanmar
The second horseman
Banyan
Flagging enthusiasm
China


Xinjiang’s economy
Controlled growth
United States


Homelessness
Gimme shelter
A political litmus test in Ohio
The party of Biden
Andrew Cuomo
Fall from grace
Ghost guns
Taking aim at phantom firearms
Lexington
The great American carnival
The Americas


Bolivia’s woes
Fraud, coup or prologue?
The legacy of immigration
You say pirozhki, I say empanada
Middle East & Africa


Lebanon
Into the abyss
Iran
Off to an interesting start
Elections in Zambia
Victory by default
Abandoned refugees
Rationed out
Europe


Spain’s economy
A doleful plight
Belarus
Forget the border
Turkey
Up in smoke
Chechnya
The wolf’s return
Charlemagne
The black-cod theory of integration
Britain


Britain’s boat people
Get back to where you once belonged
Olympic funding
Fortune and glory
Crime in the countryside
Crops and robbers
The labour market
Farewell to furlough
Scotland
Guid money after bad
Bagehot
The great reversal
International


The UN’s refugee convention at 70
Well-founded fears
Business


Semiconductors
Veni, Nvidia, Vici
Carmakers and semiconductors
Pinned by chips
European industry
A green and level field
Bartleby
The new monarchs
Schumpeter
India’s other A-lister
Finance & economics


A crypto stress test
The disaster scenario
Policing crypto
Here comes the sheriff
Perishable e-money
Temporary income hypothesis
China’s capital markets
Evergrave
Free exchange
Something ventured
Schools brief


Cells and how to run them
Layers of power
Science & technology


Combating future viruses
Predict and survive
A non-binary burial
Antiquated thinking
Ancient geometry
No need for a protractor
Automatic goods handling
Heave-ho!
Books & arts


Sport
The pursuit of greatness
The Berlin Wall
An underground operation
Horological history
A matter of time
Johnson
The terms that bind
Elif Shafak’s new novel
Star-crossed lovers
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Tackling climate change
Green goals
Obituary


Frenchy Cannoli
The weed of paradise