The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The world economy
Danger ahead
Omicron amplifies three dangers that stalk the global economy

Build Back Better
SALT in the wounds
The Democrats’ fiscal policy makes a mockery of their progressive pledges

Technology
Local heroes
For vibrant, competitive internet businesses, look to emerging markets

Sex and gender
Bad medicine
Britain’s planned ban on conversion therapy is not what it seems

Global crime
Who will police Interpol?
The election of a worrying new president is just the latest thing to go wrong

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Kyle Rittenhouse, Centerra Gold, housing, social mobility, London’s bridges, business speak
Briefing

The Omicron variant
Watchful waiting
With its wonky spike, the Omicron variant looks ominous. How bad will it be?

Asia


India’s population
The patter of fewer tiny feet
Politics in Kyrgyzstan
Ready for take-off?
Seasteading
A stop in the ocean
Business in Japan
At the sharp end
Banyan
A familiar script
China


Unmarried mothers
Against the tide
Sport and human rights
Ballsy
Chaguan
Why China says it is a democracy
United States


State-and-local-tax deduction
A tax plan for the upper, upper class
Tainted water
Message in a bottle
Crime tech
Shot spotty
Abortion rights
Roe’s last stand
Navy shipyards
All at sea
Guns and cars
Beep beep, bang bang
Lexington
Son of a slave
Middle East & Africa


The Omicron variant
Omicro-aggressions
African tech
Seeding the cloud
China and Africa
Pomp and circumspection
Iran
In need of water, not uranium
Booze in Saudi Arabia
Drinking and driving
The Americas


Mexico
Missing links
Honduras
A leftward turn
Bello
Pictures at two exhibitions
Europe


Spain
The tests of tolerance
Language in Spain
Accenting the negative
Ukraine and Russia
Waiting for the freeze
German-American relations
High-pressure umbrage
Italy’s next president
Guess who?
Charlemagne
On bullshit: Brussels edition
Britain


Conversion therapy
Missing the mark
Spycraft
Open book
Lord Frost
Portrait of a Brexiteer
Property
Catching up on the capital
Immigration
Straws in the wind
Sinn Fein
United, across the border
Bagehot
Jordan Peterson and the lobster
International


Global crime
Interpolitics
Business


Asian tech firms
Hot tropics
Social media
Exiting the Twittersphere
Bartleby
The office of the future
The music business
Ghosts of Christmas past
Internet censorship
Cancel culture, Beijing-style
Valuing patents
Billion-dollar blueprints
Schumpeter
No more tears
Finance & economics


China’s slowdown
Omicronomics
Emerging markets
Hazards ahead
Climate finance
Squeezing the balloon
Investment in India
Over flows
Buttonwood
After the flood
Norges Bank Investment Management
Point of low returns?
Free exchange
Taming wildcats
Science & technology


Random numbers
Flipping heck!
Planetology
The memory of water
Planetology
The memory of water
Mobile phones
Through a glass, brightly
Electric flight
Whirly birds are go
Trypanosomes
A nasty sting
Books & arts


The politics of history
The rice bowl’s tale
Embattled minorities
Stations of the cross
The Beatles
A long and winding ode
Forgotten wars
Message in a bottle
Cinema royalty
Two faces of a star
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The gulag
“Levelling up” at gunpoint
Obituary


Stephen Sondheim
Keep moving on