The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Germany
The mess Merkel leaves behind
As a much-admired chancellor bows out, her successor will face big unresolved problems

America in Asia
Resurfacing
America is at last acting to counter China in Asia. But strengthening military ties is just the start

Energy shortages
Gas puzzlers
The first energy squeeze of the green era has important lessons for governments

The Evergrande crisis
Bail-outs and bedlam
Can “common prosperity” lead to financial stability in China?

Multilateral institutions and China
Why Georgieva should go
A scandal over data and China has undermined the credibility of the IMF’s boss

Letters

Letters to the editor
On war, Joe Biden, Pakistan, abortion, social media, Aristotle, The global normalcy index, Rembrandt, holidays
Briefing

The new geopolitics of Asia
Enter AUKUS
A major submarine deal underscores how the new theatre for great-power competition is maritime, playing out across the Indo-Pacific

Asia


Democracy in Japan
Going round in circles
Love hotels in India
In and out
The Philippines’ drug war
Duterte harried
Press freedom in South Korea
Off-target
Banyan
Bamboo-shoots of resistance
China


Chinese-language media
Black, white and red all over
Climate-change policy
Low-hanging fruit
Chaguan
How AUKUS is viewed from Beijing
United States


Housing
Build, baby, build
Booster jabs
Ahead of the science
Covid-19 in schools
Safety in numbers
Academic freedom
Free now to speak
Policing
The Floyd effect
Mississippi’s last abortion clinic
Legal and rare
Lexington
Chuck’s modest leadership
Middle East & Africa


Inequality in South Africa
Not so black and white
Nigeria
Sum of a preacher man
Algeria
Bye-bye, Bouteflika
Lebanon’s energy crisis
Power politics
The Americas


Canada
A pointless election
Salmon farming
Fishing for compliments
Pre-Columbian exploration
Medieval mapping
Bello
The pen versus the paramilitaries
Europe


Germany’s election
The hunt for the Merkel middle
Germany
A dash of yellow
Russia’s election
The conjuror in the Kremlin
The Church of Sweden
Chosen ones
Charlemagne
The great sub snub
Britain


Energy prices
Flaring up
Class
Baron net
Reviving Labour
North-south divide
Gender medicine
Kicking it back downstairs
Liberal Democrats
Yellow Tories
Hong Kongers
The YouTube migrants
Bagehot
Dirty politics
International


Influenza
Northern exposure
Special report


Germany
After Merkel
Public investment
An infrastructure hole
The car industry
A troubled road lies ahead
The demographic challenge
Desperately seeking people
The European Union
Missing Angela already
Merkelkinder
The young’s attitudes
Foreign and security policy
More assertiveness wanted
The future
Reforms, reforms
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Chipmaking
Neutral but not idle
American retail
Two new shocks for shopping
Enterprise in Germany
Berlin Inc
Universal Music Group
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Business etiquette
New civility
Technology in Japan
Do me a solid
Bartleby
Stake claims
Schumpeter
The Midas of Mordor
Finance & economics


China’s property woes
The folly of Evergrande
Natural gas
Boiling over
Transpacific trade
Wiping America’s eye
Buttonwood
Just add crypto
Investing in property
The new rent-seekers
Rich-world corporate debt
A mountain but not a volcano
Free exchange
Rules of engagement
Science & technology


The future of warfare
Through a shimmering looking glass
Footprints in the muds of time
An old lake bed reveals evidence of America’s first inhabitants
The evolution of fruit
Finding the right customer
The comforts of religion
Faith and fatalism
Books & arts


Reason and its discontents
Faulty logic
The history of London
What lies beneath
Justice on screen
Supposing they’re wrong?
Dystopian fiction
Life, the universe and everything
Contemporary art
The man behind the curtain
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


History and genetics
To the ends of the Earth
Obituary


Clive Sinclair
Invent or bust