The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The future of money
Down the rabbit hole
The promise and perils of decentralised finance

Vaccine mandates
Needling
State pressure has a role in public health. Covid-19 jabs are no exception

Capitalism in America
A dynamic do-over
Rumours of the demise of American enterprise are exaggerated

Child labour
How to stop children working
Treat the causes, not the symptom

World trade
Why skippers aren’t scuppered
Global supply chains are adapting, not failing

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the rise of illiberalism
Briefing

Decentralised finance
Adventures in DeFi-land
Can “DeFi” lay the foundations for a decentralised economy?

Blockchains
Building consensus
A blockchain is an immutable shared history

Asia


Gender and politics
Name dropping
Afghanistan
Highway 1 revisited
Education in India
Remotely learning
The Korean peninsula
Testing times
Banyan
The sum of its parts
China


Using the law
Courting influence
Evergrande
Rising damp
Chaguan
The party’s model emperor
United States


Reducing poverty
When policy works
Vaccinations
Biden’s bidding
Salt Lake City
Not your father’s Utah
Religious objections
Bodies and temples
Schools
Robot masters
The army
XX-rated
Lexington
Beware false doctrines
The Americas


Argentina
Front to back
Agriculture in Mexico
Reaping the rewards of trade
Bello
The monster hiding in the suburbs
Middle East & Africa


Diplomacy in the Middle East
Less battle, more banter
Teaching Arabic to Arabs
No book at bedtime
Islamism
Out of power
Aid and graft
Card declined
Child labour
All work and no play
Europe


Germany’s economy
Spinning the wheels
Germany’s left-wingers
The spectre of the ex-Communists
French covid-19 passports
Le nudge
Russia’s elections
The voters are getting smarter
Edible insects
A bug’s life
Charlemagne
The Dull Man theory of history
Britain


The Labour Party
Après le déluge, moi
Covid-19
Living with it
Regeneration
Levelling up, and up
Medicine
Dr WFH
British entrepreneurs
The lion and the unicorn
Attitudes to immigration
Bending point
Vehicle taxes
Heading towards gridlock
Bagehot
Rebooting Johnsonism
International


Philanthropy
Shifting foundations
Business


American business
Bring out the vim-o-meter
Big tech and antitrust
An unEpic victory
South Korean business
The other techlash
Supply chains
Marginal revolution
Bartleby
End of the travelling circus
Schumpeter
Who will be next?
Finance & economics


Container shipping
Perfect storm
Inflation
Fighting trim
China’s growth (1)
Lion dance
Buttonwood
The SEC’s modest mission
China’s growth (2)
The Thales of economics
Income inequality
Pie in the sky
Free exchange
Nanny state
Science & technology


Orbital debris
Seeking bolts from the blue
Space tourism
Lights, camera, lift-off
Zoonotic diseases
All the better to infect you with
Farming and the climate
How to toilet train your cow
Capturing carbon
Sucking money from thin air
Books & arts


Memory and the Holocaust
The ravine
Friendship, fiction and philosophy
Her brilliant friend
Johnson
Hitting the like button
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 vaccines
As good as advertised
Obituary


Mikis Theodorakis
Soul music