The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Twenty years after 9/11
America then and now
The superpower is in danger of swinging from hubris to muddle

Sex and geopolitics
Why nations that fail women fail
And why foreign policy should pay more heed to half of humanity

Britain’s care reform
Age and enlightenment
Boris Johnson is right to spend more on health and social care, but he is paying for it the wrong way

Abortion in America
Courting trouble
Texas’s bounty-hunting abortion law sets a troubling precedent

El Salvador
New ideas, old tricks
Ignore the bitcoin tech-bro hype. Nayib Bukele is an old-fashioned caudillo

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Turkey and the EU, Afghanistan, Kazakhstanis, executives, dudes
Briefing

American foreign policy
Uncontained
How America wasted its unipolar moment

Asia


The covid-19 pandemic
The shoe drops
Tackling covid-19
Face: the facts
Funeral rites
Hell-care providers
Afghanistan
Empty clinics, hungry lions
Japanese politics
September surprise
Banyan
The shadow caste casts
China


Digital regulation
Codified crackdown
Maoist nostalgia
Talkin’ ‘bout a revolution
Chaguan
For the few, not the many
United States


Cities
Renaissance town
Abortion rights
Roads back to Roe
Covid-19
Not moving the needle
Opioids
Released
Religion
Nuns and nones
California
Imperfect recall
Lexington
Muslims on top
Middle East & Africa


Guinea
Another one bites the dust
Religion
The other Zionism
Nigeria
Mega-country, micro-pensions
Iran’s new government
Not management material
Qatar and Afghanistan
The Taliban-whisperers
The Americas


Protests in Brazil
A populist pushes back
Women’s rights
Judges for choice
El Salvador
Crypto creep
Europe


Germany’s place in the world
Still searching
Germany
Gloom and grumbling
The future of Spain
Grappling with a Rubik’s cube
Charlemagne
The EU Zodiac
Britain


Paying for the pandemic
Spend with care
Architecture
Streets and bricks
Protest
Grey radicals
Britain’s film industry
Lights, camera, tax breaks
Political scandal
Sleazy does it
Religion
Go forth and multiply more
Bagehot
North of the Tyne is mine
International


Sex and society
The cost of oppressing women
Business


Intel
Gelsinger’s opening gambit
Big oil in Iraq
Baghdad pay dirt
Television
Cable ties
DAX redux
Germany’s DAX blue-chip stockmarket index gets an update
Retailing
The direct approach
Bartleby
Suits v sweatpants
Schumpeter
Illumina and the holy GRAIL
Finance & economics


Covid-19 and cities
The cracked egg
Commodities
Higher still
Capital markets in China
Home comforts
Private equity
Raiding the stakes
The global policy cycle
High-wire act
Buttonwood
Habitat destruction
Free exchange
How the YIMBYs can win
Science & technology


The other pandemic
A new hope
Covid-19 experiments
A calculated risk
Climate change and evolution
My, what a big beak you have
Genetics and extinction
Two close shaves
Ocean reefs
Hybrid vigour
Books & arts


America in the 21st century
The home front
Industrious revolutionaries
Tectonic plates
Antiquities and the law
Unburied treasure
Irish fiction
The trouble with normality
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Sport psychology
All too human
Obituary


Jean “Binta” Breeze
Hearing the voices