The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Russia and NATO
How to talk to Mr Putin
Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine has created a chance to enhance the security of Europe

Lowering inflation
Beware snake oil, Mr President
Democrats seem dangerously drawn to schemes to limit the growth in prices

Mexico
High-voltage mire
Congress should reject President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s dirty, costly energy policy

Politics in Hong Kong
Pliant patriots
Hong Kong’s new legislature has been sworn in. It is a mockery of democracy

Climate finance and greenwashing
The meaning of green
Europe’s new labelling scheme is not the way to get capitalism to tackle climate change

Letters

Letters to the editor
On American power, wireless connections, Africa, cruise ships, restaurants, Stephen Sondheim
Briefing

The Russia-Ukraine crisis
Putin’s brinkmanship
Russia’s menacing of Ukraine is unlikely to induce NATO to retreat. It may have the opposite effect

Asia


Kazakhstan
Shouting at deaf old men
India and Omicron
Elections and infections
Pacific relations
RAAring to go
Myanmar’s civil war
Goodbye to all that
Banyan
The forgettable populist
China


Hong Kong’s media
Showing who’s boss
The UN and human rights
Geneva discords
Chaguan
For-profit paranoia
United States


The politics of 2022
A daunting year for Democrats
Adjusting to Omicron
Covid reconsidered
Electoral administration
Who counts wins
Medical education and gender
Identity problems
Indigenous cuisine
Crickets, blue corn and bison tartare
Latter-day Saints
Going forth and striving to multiply
Lexington
The insurrection, one year on
The Americas


Energy in Mexico
Back to the disco era
Brazil
Bolsonaryo v Lulo
Cuba
Crushing disappointment
Middle East & Africa


African economies
When you are in a hole...
Uganda
The birds and the “be quiet”
South Africa
How to capture a state
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews
Losing control
Discontent in Saudi Arabia
Bubbling below the surface
Europe


Russia and Ukraine
Keep calm and carry on
EU energy policy
Nein, danke!
Italy’s presidency
Decision time for Draghi
The train in Spain
To the end of the earth
Charlemagne
Rewiring Europe
Britain


Prince Andrew
A question of consent
Investment screening
Balancing act
Iconoclasm past and present
Cancel culture
Modern sculpture
Hot heads, cold feet
Bagehot
Kicking winners
International


The business of religion
God, Mammon and real estate
Business


Apple’s ambitions
The accidental mogul
Entertainment
No child’s play
The Theranos trial
Blood will have blood
Mobile telecoms
Cloud v ether
Carmaking
Motor Sin City
Labour shortages
Blue-collar burnout
Bartleby
Office theatrics
Finance & economics


Residential property
House party
Sustainable investing
Gold standard
America’s financial rules
Regulatory flex
Economics
The new consensus
Troubled banks in China
North-eastern exposure
Asset management
Direct to market
Buttonwood
Lost lustre
Free exchange
Blood on the dance floor
Science & technology


Ecology
Something in the air
Plant breeding in orbit
Greenhouses in the sky
An obituary of Edward Wilson
An inordinate fondness for ants
The study of fossils
Digging deep
Books & arts


Polarisation and conflict
How things fall apart
A life in journalism
The road to Watergate
Climbing literature
Tell it from the mountain
Performance art
The eyeballs have it
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 and elite footballers
Stoppage time
Obituary


April Ashley
Shame and champagne