The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Government and business
Beware the bossy state
State intervention is being transformed. That won’t make it any more effective

British politics
Party animal
With Boris Johnson clinging on as prime minister, Britain is in for a rough ride

Schools and covid-19
Poor students
America’s educators have failed to learn from the safe opening of classrooms abroad

Russia and Central Asia
Standemonium
Central Asia will remain unstable, however many troops Russia sends

India
Stop inciting murder
The ruling party is unleashing forces it will not be able to control

Financial risk
A good idea, until it isn’t
Poorly understood cross-border capital flows pose a threat to stability

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the Republicans, Ukraine, gaming, running with bulls, corrugated iron, doors
Briefing

Central Asia
Steppe in the dark
Kazakhstan’s bloody turbulence will affect all of Central Asia

Asia


India
Playing with fire
Wildlife trafficking
Some like it otter
Sri Lanka’s economy
Thanks, but no thanks
Borders
Djebacle
Banyan
Treading water
China


Politics in 2022
All change, bar one
Chaguan
One accident away from disaster
United States


Law enforcement
Refunding the police
Foreign policy
Diplomacy minus diplomats
Biden’s judges
Filling the courts
Schools out
Classes cancelled
Buildings burning
Two tragedies, one explanation
The future of Austin
City limits
Lexington
Death, taxes and a failing presidency
Middle East & Africa


Crossing the Mediterranean
An EU-funded horror story
Cycling in the Arab world
Make way
Ethiopia
Happy Christmas, war is over?
Russia and Africa
Wagner, worse than it sounds
The Americas


Tech disruption
Silicon linings
Brazil
Jair and balanced
Ice hockey
A puck in the teeth
Europe


Russia and the West
Teetering at the summit
France’s election
Unfashionably gauche
Christmas in Ukraine
Swimming with the Yuletide
The Netherlands
Unclogging Europe
Charlemagne
Gas nightmares
Britain


Boris Johnson
Breaking bad
Energy and inflation
It’s not cheap being green
Coronavirus testing
Look away
Civil celebrants
Match and dispatch
Atlantic rainforest
The wood and the trees
Retail investment
Automatic for the people
Bagehot
What did you expect?
International


Microeconomics
The point of tipping
Special report


Business and the state
The new interventionism
The new industrial policy
Return to picking winners
Competition policy
Antitrust redux
Government regulation
Rules just keep on growing
Corporate taxes
To tax or not to tax
The future
The liberal fightback
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


The business of medicine
Move fast and heal things
Business in Germany
What the Mittelstand wants
The oil industry
The new great game
Bartleby
Of remote work and writing
Schumpeter
Creative seduction
Finance & economics


Capital flows
Super savers
Uranium
Atom and abroad
America’s consumers
Life after stimmy
Pensions in Germany
Aversion therapy
Buttonwood
Sexagenarians and the City
Insurance in China
Taming tigers
Free exchange
Remote prospects
Science & technology


Seismology
And now, stay tuned for the earthquake forecast
Climate change
Unfrozen North
Baby-boomers
The world’s biggest fish hatchery
Xenotransplantation
Happy news
Omicron and immunity
The start of something new?
Books & arts


Art in Japan
By the people, for the people
Hollywood legends
The defiant one
Germany after the second world war
Out of the abyss
Dystopian fiction
Who knows best?
Johnson
Loudmouths and small voices
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The economics of opportunity
Wages and places
Obituary


Richard Leakey
Homo impatiens