The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Western support
Why Ukraine must win
A decisive victory could transform the security of Europe

Afghanistan
Back to the dark ages
The Taliban are shackling half the Afghan population

Florida
Here comes the Sunshine State
What America can learn from Florida’s boom

The British constitution
These septic isles
Devolution is making the United Kingdom chronically discontent

Brands and marketing
This leader is amazing!! #ad
Social influencers are becoming a serious business

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Russia and Ukraine, California, baseball, grammar, Dostoyevsky, Bagehot
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya argues that Europe will be safer if Belarus is free
Briefing

Speaking to Volodymyr Zelensky
Confidence from the bunker
Ukraine’s president tells The Economist why Vladimir Putin must be defeated

The changing fortunes of war
Moving targets
For the moment, Russian forces have given up on Kyiv. What next?

Asia


Afghanistan
No country for young women
Millennials on the rampage
Pokémon dough
Russians in Asia
Roubles in paradise
The Solomon Islands
Getting closer
Indonesia
Out of the frying pan
Banyan
No way back
China


China and Europe
We need to talk about Ukraine
Covid-19
An old problem
Tibet
The fire inside
Hong Kong
The dangers of sitting too long
Chaguan
No checks, no balances
United States


Child allowance
The social experiment
College bonds
Seeds of learning
Drought in California
Hold the salt
The defence budget
Rhetoric v reality
Our poll on the war
Older and wiser?
Lexington
The Reverse Roosevelt Doctrine
The Americas


Education in Chile
A lurch to the left
Central America
Injudicious judges
Bello
The battle for Brazil
Middle East & Africa


Israel and the Arabs
The shifting sands of diplomacy
Oman’s new sultan
Break with the past
Ethiopia’s civil war
The road not taken
Insecurity in Nigeria
Red line
Kenyan politics
The never-ending party
Europe


Hungary’s election
Last-ditch pitch
Germany’s energy dependence
Can Germany forgo Russian imports?
France’s presidential race
A bit more of a competition
Charlemagne
Of bureaucrats and lovers
Britain


Northern Ireland
So close, so far
Pandemic procurement
When waste is worth it
Maternity care
Birthing pains
Boris Johnson
By jingo!
The Falklands war, 40 years on
Not even past
International


Going viral
#Putin’sWar
Special report


The future of Florida
The Sunshine State also rises
The economy
Boom and lust
Miami’s makeover
Tech in the city
Making policy
A peninsula makes waves
Politics
The colour purple
Red versus blue
Ballot box
The environment, water and climate
A triple threat
The way ahead
Which side of paradise?
Special report: Florida
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


The future of marketing
The rise of the influencer economy
App store fees
Store wars
Covid-19 and business
Shanghai stops
Information technology in India
Outsourcing 2.0
Bartleby
Managerial trolleyology
Asian conglomerates
Born to Vin
Schumpeter
War and wokery
Finance & economics


The natural-gas standoff
A little help from a friend
Russian oil (1)
Diversionary tactics
Russian oil (2)
Side channels
Buttonwood
Late to disinflate
Russia’s economy
Wounded bear
Emerging economies
Menu costs
Taxing the wealthy
Before death do us part
Free exchange
The once and future king
Science & technology


Alternative energy
Scavenger hunt
Anti-anti-tank weapons
The best defence is a good offence
Invasive species
News from the underground
The glymphatic system and dementia
Brain drain
Culture


Twenty-first century authoritarianism
The menace of mendacity
World in a dish
The unreal McCoy
Stand-up comedy
Seriously funny
Royalty and disease
Great and smallpox
The genealogy craze
Sins of the forefathers
Back Story
The man in the arena
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Hungary’s election
Stacking the deck
Obituary


Madeleine Albright
A different kind of secretary