The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

France votes
Why Macron matters
France’s president is a cautionary tale for centrists everywhere

War crimes
To indict is right
Investigate and charge Russian war criminals, even if they are never brought to justice

The world economy
Recession roulette
A toxic mix of risks hangs over the world economy

The politics of paranoia
Imaginary hobgoblins
Scaremongering works. Fans of the truth should fear it

Technology
After the smartphone
In Silicon Valley the search is on for the next big tech platform

Letters

Letters to the editor
On gay people in Florida, Hollywood, oligarchs, the Falklands war, school closures, exchange rates, Europe
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Semyon Bychkov speaks out for creative freedom amid conflict
Russia and Ukraine
Ivo Daalder says NATO enlargement didn’t go far enough
Russia and Ukraine
Kaja Kallas on the atrocities in Ukraine
Briefing

The French presidential election
Standing out from the crowd
Emmanuel Macron has had a remarkable run which looks likely to continue; but things are getting harder

Asia


Sri Lanka
Lights out
Pakistan’s political crisis
Not cricket
Banyan
Enmeshed
The Indo-Pacific
AUKUS goes hypersonic
The Korean peninsula
Bursting into Hwasong
China


Covid-19
Shanghai swoons
Politics in Hong Kong
A new sheriff in town
Food security
A big appetite
Chaguan
The history boys
United States


Farming
Fields of gold
The Supreme Court
Confirmation bias
Unionisation at Amazon
Not quite primed
The opioid epidemic
A lethal shift
Filling your tank in New Jersey
To pump or not to pump?
Surrogacy
Battlegrounds of the baby business
Lexington
Bill Burns and the bear
Middle East & Africa


Sudan’s crisis
After the tyrant
Corruption in Mozambique
Wine and punishment
Sexism in Egypt
What would the neighbours think?
Libya’s second city
Smashed and forgotten
Taxes in the Arab world
Collecting from the wrong people
The Americas


Brazil’s election
How corrupt was Lula?
Europe


Ukraine
After the battle
The battlefield
The turning tide
Educating refugees
From battleground to playground
Ukraine and Turkey
Having it both ways in Istanbul
Hungary’s election
Unstoppable strongman
Charlemagne
Vaccinated against Viktor
Britain


Immigration
Just what the doctor ordered
Deliveries via the Thames
Bluer, greener
Cost of living
The borrowers
The attorney-general
A Johnsonian lawyer
Channel 4
A great British sell-off?
No-fault divorce
Putting asunder
Bagehot
Of moral panics and ethical spasms
International


Mercenaries
Vladimir’s army
Business


Headset wars
Seeing and believing
Business education
Degrees of unconcern
Elon Musk and Twitter
Another Musk-have
Toshiba
In search of an ending
Business in China
Double-entry book-keeping
Bartleby
The value of clarity
Schumpeter
The catfish effect
Finance & economics


The jobs boom
Too much of a good thing
The Federal Reserve
Goodbye, QE. Hello, QT
Housing in America
FOMO froth
Buttonwood
Double-glazed
Banking in India
A house united
China’s economy
Looking in the side-mirror
Currencies
Not so sterling
Free exchange
Red swan over China
Science & technology


Climate change
Tick, tick, tick
Neuroscience
Frames of mind
Perception
A rose by any other name
Evolution
Bird-swatching
Culture


Science and philosophy
Time v the machine
New American fiction
The empire strikes back
Authoritarian leaders
Men of the people
Pioneering radio
Tapestries of sound
Children’s news
Bullets and bulletins
Johnson
Beyond the giga-zone
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 in Asia
A tale of two surges
Obituary


Mario Terán
Man and myth