The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Vladimir Putin’s war
Where will he stop?
Russia’s president has launched an assault on his neighbour. History will judge him harshly

Spending covid-relief money
Wasting a windfall
America’s states have more green stuff than grey matter

Private markets
The private-equity delusion
Why private markets are likely to disappoint investors

Democracy in South Africa
Courting trouble
South Africa must do more to protect its judges

Workplace automation
Rise of the robots
The world should welcome the rise of smart machines

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Canada, bilingual people, Estonia, levelling up, Uganda, Gordon Brown, tech giants
Briefing

The war in Ukraine
A bad beginning
Vladimir Putin has brought war back to Europe

Asia


South Korea
K-popular
Geography and politics
What’s in a name?
Blasphemy in Pakistan
No mercy
Diplomacy in South-East Asia
The chastened cowboy
Banyan
Fearful symmetry?
China


The crisis in Ukraine
Choosing sides
Covid-19
Clinging to zero
Chaguan
A horror from another age
United States


The American Rescue Plan
Take the money and run
Kathy Hochul
The unexpected governor
Park permits
Firefall and footfall
Child brides
Miserable marriages
Academic freedom
A pushback against cancel culture
Lexington
Reality against Putin
Middle East & Africa


Another institution attacked
Judging judges
Jihadists in west Africa
Lines in the sand
Names in southern Africa
Here comes Trouble
Money-laundering
Cleaning up the laundromat
Public transport
A ban on the van
Falconry
Beak demand
The Americas


Political stability
Why Uruguay?
Brazil
The price of high prices
Bello
The fall of Juan Orlando Hernández
Europe


Turkey and Russia
Frenemies
The French election
Bills to pay
Spain
Thunder on the right
The Vatican
Holy See-saw
HFC Smuggling
Free as air
Charlemagne
The free-rider continent
Britain


International trade
A more flexible approach
Climate policy
A new routine
Covid-19 rules
The beginning of the end
Indeterminate prison sentences
An awful detention
The national lottery
Eyes on the prize
Clinical trials
Trials and errors
Bagehot
A tale of two crises
Special report


Private markets
Fired up
Strategic priorities
The great convergence
The investors
LPs turn the tables
Private credit
Sons of Drexel
Regulation and reputation
Red teeth, red tape
The third age
Barbarians at a crossroads
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


China Inc and self-reliance
The techno-independence movement
Sea Group
Perfect storm
Bartleby
Dirty work
Private equity and the press
Culture vultures
Investor activism
Burger flip-out
Volkswagen and Porsche
Reverse gear
Schumpeter
Putin’s python
Finance & economics


Russia invades Ukraine
The economic fallout
Chinese-American trade
Artful dodging
The IMF’s woes
Lost and fund
Gold demand in India
Karat and stick
Italian billionaires battle
Ciao, salotto buono
Inflation in Turkey
Getting sticky
Buttonwood
The sun also rises
Free exchange
Second-time lucky
Science & technology


The American Association for the Advancement of Science
An endless frontier
Neuroscience
From here to humanity
Intergenerational memory
The worm’s turn
Lithium production
Filter feeders
The psychology of justice
First impressions
Culture


Art and regeneration
The drawing on the wall
Nobel-prizewinning fiction
The spirit and the flesh
The birth of the undead
Out for the count
The Nixon presidency
Watchdog barking
Refugees and reportage
His brother’s record-keeper
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Fishy covid-19 data
More equal than others
Obituary


P.J. O’Rourke
Lone Humourist Scourge