The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Climate change
COP-out
Why Glasgow will be a disappointment. And why it will nonetheless be crucial

Coups in Africa
With a putsch and a shove
The army’s takeover in Sudan highlights a worrying trend

American taxes
Capital pains
Why Democrats’ tax plans are such a mess

Chinese women
Clouds over the sky
China says it defends women’s rights. So why attack feminists?

Decentralised finance
The fun in non-fungible
Our NFT auction reveals the promise of decentralised finance—and some big problems

Letters

Letters to the editor
On food technologies, Top Glove, malarial bed nets, Poland, liberals, email
Briefing

Migration
African odyssey
Many more Africans are migrating within their own continent than to Europe

Asia


South-East Asia
ASEANgst
Civil war in Myanmar
In for the long haul
Banyan
BJP v Bollywood
Emissions targets
Zero effort
Afghanistan’s economy
The next crisis
Japanese society
The sun, the moon and the ponytail
China


Feminism
The long wait
Media controls
All the news that’s fit to reprint
United States


Entrenched partisanship
The Democrats’ disadvantage
Virginia’s next governor
Down to the wire
Police and politics (1): Minneapolis
A question of safety
Police and politics (2): Vaccine mandates
Hands up, no shots
Narco-hippos
Wallow on
Prostitution
Bringing sex work out of the shadows
Lexington
No one loves Joe Biden
The Americas


Chile
Fuelling the flames
Digital currencies
Red, white and blue tape
Bello
No-growth economics
Middle East & Africa


Sudan
The generals strike back
African languages
Free clicks
The United Nations
Expatonomics
Countering Iran
Diplomacy by other means
Israel
Bibi’s long bye-bye
Europe


Turkey
Autumn of the patriarch
The EU’s borders
Wire transfer
Serbia
A Balkans arms race
French acronyms
PFUE? LOL
Russia
The new Communists
Charlemagne
Going nuclear
Britain


Fiscal policy
Farewell to austerity
The budget
Something ventured
Industry
Battery bonanza
Earnings
Pay up
Benin bronzes
Coming home to roost
Privacy
Taking on the taxman
Bagehot
Super-green Boris
International


Vaccine passports
Hard pass
Special report


Stabilising the climate
The biggest picture
State of play
The Paris challenge
The Asian century’s emissions
Eastern approaches
Economics and energy
Flows and fuel
Negative emissions
If I could turn back time
Veils and ignorance
Governing the atmosphere
Business


Tech earnings
Cloudy with a dearth of chips
Japanese corporate governance
Poison-pill popping
Trouble brewing
America Inc’s earning
Retail subscription services
Outside the box
Shell
Splitting time?
Bartleby
Into battle they don’t go
Schumpeter
Mad Men v machines
Finance & economics


Non-fungible tokens
Through the looking glass
Our auction
The NFT party
Tax in America
A tale of two profits
The energy crunch
Perverse but persistent
Buttonwood
Back with a vengeance
Housing in China
The long wait for a tax everyone loves to hate
Free exchange
The pyjama revolution
Science & technology


Private space stations
Placing perches in the sky
Avian reproduction
No sex please, we’re condors
Renewable energy
A census of solar cells
Books & arts


Human rights in China
Xinjiang blues
“The Potato Eaters”
Earthy delights
Johnson
Write like an Egyptian
Europe in the 21st century
Crisis management
British fiction
Smoke and mirrors
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Electric vehicles
The grid’s the thing
Obituary


Anne Saxelby
Say cheese, America!