The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Bureaucracy unbound
The triumph of big government
As the state’s footprint expands, how should classical liberals respond?

Housing
Barbarians at the garden gate
Hostility towards private equity’s push into property is misguided

The war on terror in Africa
The next Afghanistan
To prevail against jihadists in the Sahel, the West must learn from past mistakes

Chile
From role-model to cautionary tale
Unless moderates rediscover their convictions, an extremist will become president

The future of the internet
Don’t mock the metaverse
Virtual worlds are already here

Letters

Letters to the editor
On vaccine passports, maths, Western Sahara, climate change, Joe Biden, French acronyms
Briefing

State spending
The great embiggening
Why government expands almost all of the time

Asia


South-East Asia’s info-wars
The embrace of the motherland
Philippine politics
Succession
Indian government subsidies
A dangerous addiction
LGBT in Japan
A matter of some pride
Banyan
Bear with them
China


Flood-proofing cities
Soaking it up
Street art
The grey walls of China
Chaguan
A Sino-American ice age
United States


Philanthropy
Scott free
The Rittenhouse trial
Provoking questions
Schools
Answered prayers
Puerto Rico and covid-19
Rich in experience
Politics
Spending and voting
Health care
Drug deals
Lexington
Pete Buttigieg’s impossible job
The Americas


Chile
Pole positions
Migrants in Chile
Chilly reception
A rose, but no uprising
Cuba’s government smothers a planned nationwide protest
Bello
The ambiguities of Peronism
Middle East & Africa


Jihadism in Africa
Sahel in a handbasket
Uganda and Islamic State
Whodunnit?
Israel
Spies against crime
Tunisia
Bad smells everywhere
Football in Lebanon
Pitch darkness
Europe


France
Aux larmes, citoyens!
Poland and Belarus
Borderline case
Georgia
Caucasian degeneration
Nuclear weapons in Germany
Atomic jitters
Cyprus
Permanent partition?
Charlemagne
Marx brothers
Britain


Emergency care
The dead of winter
Racism in sport
Just not cricket
Asian swing voters
Blue light
The economy
All change
Social mobility
What’s in a name?
Place-based policy
On the dock
Bagehot
Who runs the country?
International


After COP26
Out of reach?
Business


Business in China
The Party capitalists
Royal Dutch Shell
A simple solution
Bartleby
The business phrasebook
The art market
Monet, Manet, Money
The metaverse architects
If you build it
American railways
Chugging along
Schumpeter
Walmart gets its bite back
We're hiring
Wanted: a new senior business writer
Finance & economics


China and commodities
Material clout
Investment in Germany
Houdini economics
Inflation
Land of the falling price
Buttonwood
Success and succession
House prices
Patch-up job
Frequent-flyer schemes
Lifting off
Ethiopia’s growth model
Lost promise
Free exchange
The inbetweener
Science & technology


Covid-19
Reservoir dogs. And cats. And buffalo…
Autism
When theories go belly up
ASATs and the ISS
Fragmentation grenade
Books & arts


French nationalism
The less accused
Artificial intelligence
Mechanical minds
Marking time
The seven-day itch
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Brave new worlds
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 testing
An Immensa cock-up
Obituary


F.W. de Klerk
Builder and dismantler