The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Hydrocarbons
The energy shock
The first big scare of the green era reveals grave problems with the transition to clean energy

Wage growth
Cheques and imbalance
Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral?

The coronavirus
Covid-19’s rocky road
The world can see the end of the pandemic. Millions of lives depend on how it gets there

Internet regulation
Who should police the web?
The responsibility belongs with politicians, not private firms

Economies in Latin America
Building back best
After a bad decade and a miserable pandemic, the region’s economies have a chance to make progress

Letters

Letters to the editor
The London Stock Exchange, philanthropy, religion, urinating cows, Brazil, “like”
Briefing

Endemic covid-19
What lies ahead
The world will have to learn to live with covid-19. What will that future look like?

Asia


Techno-Utopianism
Seeing like a state
Political dynasties (1)
Duterte II: the sequel
Political dynasties (2)
Not horsing around
Sri Lanka
No more Mr Rice Guy
Banyan
Working-class hero
China


The zero-covid policy
Protracted war
Chaguan
How Xi’s China differs from Mao’s
United States


Medicine
Anatomy of a scandal
Climate policy
The keeper
Voters
Left march
Free speech
Money talks
Lexington
Dave Chappelle for gender realism
The Americas


Latin American economies
Post-pandemic pick up
Bello
Under the volcano
Middle East & Africa


Nuclear diplomacy
The final countdown
Iraq’s election
Vote first, fight later
Dubai expo
The far-fetched pavilions
Burkina Faso
The ghost of Thomas Sankara
South Africa’s Afrikaans press
Ja to change
Europe


Energy supplies
Uncomfortable truths
Scandal in Austria
Viennese walks
Eric Zemmour
France’s wannabe Trump
Charlemagne
Polexit versus “dirty remain”
Britain


Academic freedom
Two plus two make four
Defence strategy
Master and commander
Northern Ireland protocol
Back to the past
Public finances in Northern Ireland
All talk and no trouser
Demography
Spinster nation
Welsh politics
How red is my valley?
International


Online censorship
Walls of silence
Journalism in Russia
Speaking for the dead
Business


The energy business
Playing for time
Electricity grids
An undersea change
Health technology
Girls uninterrupted
Indian business
The longest layover
Bartleby
How to run better meetings
Schumpeter
Silicon Valley’s quiet reinventor
Finance & economics


Labour costs
The pandemic pay rise
Wages in Germany
Hard bargains
Kristalina Georgieva
The International Monetary Bank
Inflation in America
Rental resurgence
Financial crime
The shell games go on
Chinese bonds
Xi’s premium
Credit cards and censorship
Plastic policemen
Buttonwood
Passive aggressive
Free exchange
Instrumental research
Science & technology


Asteroids
An embassy to the Trojans
Planetary defence
Nudge, nudge
Position-specific isotope analysis
How to C where you are going
Evolution
Snakes alive!
Avoiding anaphylaxis
Fishing for allergens
Books & arts


Technology, business and society
The ascent of the machine
Spy fiction
Against the tide
Evolution
Creature comforts
Contemporary ballet
Dante andante
Johnson
Stress tests
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


American politics
The last frontier
Obituary


Obituary: A.Q. Khan
Bombmaker