The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

British politics
The parable of Boris Johnson
And what it says about the country he governs

The future of technology
Supersized ambitions
America’s tech giants are spending heroic sums in an effort to stay on top. Good

Russia and Ukraine
Momentum is building for war
Vladimir Putin is courting disaster for Russia’s neighbour—and himself

China’s economy
From hero to zero
Today’s policies on property and the pandemic are becoming harder for China to sustain

Culture and its discontents
Food for thought
Our new Culture section is a sign of the times

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Hong Kong, Chicago, voting reform, north-south divisions, the metaverse
Briefing

Technology and innovation
Big tech’s private passions
America’s largest technology firms are investing a truly huge amount. We assess what they are trying to achieve

Asia


Health
Battling the superbugs
Tonga’s volcanic eruption
A kingdom cut off
South Korea’s presidential election
Mud on mud
Cricket in India
A captain walks
Australia
Because I say so
Banyan
Year of the absent tiger
China


Art and party
How propaganda became watchable
Regional cinema
Speaking in tongues
Chaguan
Egalitarianism revisited
United States


Labour shortages
Help wanted, now and in the future
Guaranteed-income programmes
Money, money, money
Flags and free speech
Pole dance
Gun-owners
Annette gets her guns
Voting rights and wrongs
One mistake after another
Heroic Barbie
A new Barbie doll commemorates a 19th-century suffragist
Evaluating America
The worst or the best?
Political humour
Funnier than thou
Lexington
Merrick Garland and his critics
The Americas


Covid-19
Omicron comes to Mexico
Health care in Mexico
Bills be damned
Cuba
Clamping down
Ecuador
Protecting the deep blue sea
Middle East & Africa


Jews in the Arab world
Welcome back
Human rights
Torturers on trial
Bahrain
Full of tension
Coal in South Africa
Soot, loot, reboot
Nigeria’s sex industry
Potions for prudes
Europe


Russia and Ukraine
The guns of January
France and Europe
An ever-closer union
Vaccine mandates
Must you be jabbed?
The Nordic left
Back in charge
Friedrich Merz
A not very new broom
Charlemagne
The noisy union
Britain


Boris Johnson
The price of survival
The Conservatives and the BBC
Telly addicts
Official data
Top marks
Hong Kongers
Street life
Old crafts
Going, going, not gone
Bagehot
Children of Boris
International


Divorce in the rich world
Breaking up is less hard to do
Business


Artificial intelligence
In search of mastery
Video gaming
High score
The fossil-fuel industry
Going green-ish
Airlines in recovery
Flight tracker
Unilever
Health cheque
Bartleby
Drinking in the office
Schumpeter
East v West, Venus v Mars
Finance & economics


China’s economy
Omicronic pains
Supply snarls
Chain reactions
Wall Street
Mixed messages
Ethereum and its rivals
Battle of the blockchains
Employee benefits in America
On the fringe
Buttonwood
Conflict of interest
Free exchange
Update in progress
Science & technology


Biotechnology
Backwards ran the sands of time
Child psychology
Drools of attraction
Tropical diseases
Resistance is useless
Marine conservation
A green light for saving sharks
Culture


Musical history
The beat goes home
Medieval monarchs
On angels’ wings
British fiction
Into the swing
World in a dish
The art of fasting
Venture capital
Risky business
Hip-hop revolutionaries
Hearing lessons
Back Story
Doing the time warp again
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Proof-of-vaccine rules
A shot in the arm
Obituary


Charles McGee
What the Red Tails did