The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Inflation
The Fed that failed
America’s central bank has made a big mistake. What comes next will set the path for the world economy

Dealing with refugees
Somebody else’s problem
Britain’s deal to ship asylum-seekers to Rwanda could wreck the post-war refugee system

Ukraine
Give them the tools
As the next phase of the war begins, the West needs to send more weapons

Fending off China
How to become a porcupine
What Taiwan can learn from Ukraine about resisting invasion

Shareholder democracy
Vested interests
New tools are making companies more accountable to small investors. Good

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Ukraine and the EU, business ethics, Britain, Hungary, hotels, water
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Ian Bremmer counts the cost of the war to Vladimir Putin
Russia and Ukraine
Dominic Lieven says empires eventually end amid blood and dishonour
Russia and Ukraine
Poland’s prime minister says the West’s appeasement of Vladimir Putin must stop
Briefing

Geopolitics
“War is here”
What Taiwan can learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Asia


Democracies and autocracies
Asia’s Ukraine dilemma
Cattle trading
Moo with the times
North Korea
Sung and dance
Banyan
Just this guy, you know
China


Chinese influence abroad
Democracies and the dragon
China and the West
The Russian treatment
Covid-19
The blame game
Chaguan
China’s elitist covid rules
United States


Climate change
Greener than thou
Extra homes
Cottage industry
Oklahoma
The long arm of tribal law
Dust-up with doormen
The white gloves stay on
Ketamine clinics
Special K
Lexington
James Madison’s skeletons
The Americas


Migration
The United States of Mexico
Venezuela
Enemies with benefits
Middle East & Africa


Turkey and Africa
The call of the south
South Africa
Monetising Mandela
Business in Egypt
Sour milky way
Jordan
Unhappy royals
Europe


Ukraine
A new phase begins
Germany and Ukraine
The reticent Mr Scholz
Art and the war
From Kyiv to Venice
Georgia and Russia
Finger in the wind
The French election
France decides
Charlemagne
If you can’t embargo it, tax it
Britain


The cost of living
The big squeeze
De-Corbynising Labour
Red and buried
Greenery in Scotland
Carbonny
Ronald Fisher
Window pains
A city that won’t grow
NIMBY of the north
Bagehot
Boris, the Bishop basher
International


Climate lawsuits
Habeas carbon
Special report


Central banks
Distraction disease
Emergency response
Balance-sheet manoeuvres
Social issues
One-stop policy shops
Environmental concerns
Climate curious
Going digital
Monopoly money
Geopolitics and war
Caught in the crossfire
Looking ahead
The curse of competence
Central banks
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Investor activism
The power of the proxy
Netflix
Commercial brake
Climate change
Take this, sucker
Bartleby
Calling all sharks and dragons
Technology
Hungry, hungry unicorns
Schumpeter
Musk’s megaphone
Finance & economics


The Federal Reserve
Hawks take flight
China’s economy
The hesitant v the urgent
Debt in the euro zone
The Roman question
Supply chains
Stronger links
China Merchants Bank
Executive exit
Entrepreneurship
Get up and go
Buttonwood
Life above zero
Free exchange
A spectre returns
Science & technology


Human space flight
Suited, rebooted
Space war
Launch break
Archaeology
Light entertainment
Biology
The worm turns
Contraception
Tubular gels
Culture


Art in China
Pretty as a picture
Kingsley Amis at 100
With a little help from his friends
Conflict and how to avoid it
The roads to war
“Letter from an Unknown Woman”
Love’s labour’s lost
Memorable lives
Down to the river
Johnson
On the origin of languages
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Mariupol’s destruction
Scorched earth
Obituary


Peng Ming-min
A taste for freedom