The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Financial markets
When the ride ends
What would happen if financial markets crashed?

The Ukraine crisis
Minsky moment
Shuttle diplomacy has created an opening for detente, but beware a trap

Green investing
A dirty secret
Polluting assets are heading into the financial shadows

Democracy in India
Festive but fraying
It is not only sectarianism that is eating away at Indian politics

Radical research
Healthy curiosity
How to make Britain’s new innovation agency work

Letters

Letters
On Ukraine’s gas pipelines, the Cuban missile crisis, George McGovern, police alternatives, culture, Boris Johnson
Briefing

Uttar Pradesh
The other midterms
The largest local elections in the world will show what lies in store for India and its prime minister, Narendra Modi

Asia


Democracy in India
The ailing body politic
Street hawkers in Bangkok
Sidewalk ballet
Property prices in New Zealand
Quarter-acre heartbreaker
The Philippine presidential election
Blood feuds
South Korean exports
Explosive growth
Banyan
Of the ages
China


Advising Xi Jinping
Thinker-in-chief
Covid-19 and the elderly
Injecting urgency
Chaguan
China’s complicated Olympic mood
United States


Congressional redistricting
Another round of election-rigging
Touro synagogue
Another exodus?
TikTok nuns
Sister act
Voters’ allegiance
Signs of less Trumpy times
What’s for dinner?
Street food
Carjacking
Crime and no punishment
Lexington
Messing up, Biden-style
Middle East & Africa


America and Iran
The endgame
Israel
The surveillance state
Educating girls
Back with a bump
The African Union
Older and less wise
The Americas


Brazil and China
A lopsided romance
Mexico
A deadly profession
Bello
The week that changed a culture
Europe


Germany
Olaf Scholz wakes up
Bosnia
Shaky state
Election in Castile and León
The few, the proud
Turkey’s arms exports
Drones of their own
France’s youth vote
From Le Pen to Mélenchon
Charlemagne
Bunfight!
Britain


Law and order
What’s going on here, then?
Northern Irish politics
Dashed promises
The cost-of-living crisis
Bare necessities
Boris Johnson
Taming the circus
Nuclear power
Hualong, farewell
The court system
Justice delayed
Bagehot
The rise of unpopulism
International


Geopolitics
How Russia revived NATO
Business


Television
To the victors, the scraps?
Industrial technology
Automation Inc
Chipmaking
Fabs with benefits
Earn as you go
How long can America Inc’s profits keep rising?
Consumer health care
Slumber party
Bartleby
Toxic sludge
Schumpeter
Does Masa have his trunks on?
Finance & economics


Financial markets
What goes up
Financing hydrocarbons
Fossil hunters
Buttonwood
The reset button
Inflation in Asia
Rice restraint
Debt relief
How to default on China
Free exchange
The curtain falls
Science & technology


Logistics (1)
The bots taking over the warehouse
Logistics (2)
Autonomous deliveries
Botany
Deafened
Neurology
Standing ovation
Culture


Inside Houellebecq’s France
Light in the void
Modern Chinese literature
Never-ending stories
Contemporary art
Heart in mouth
Radical history
Small voices, big ideas
Gumshoes of yore
Avenger in a raincoat
Johnson
Escape from La La land
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Bias in sport
Who will judge the judges?
Obituary


Lata Mangeshkar
India’s nightingale