The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Technology Quarterly


A wearable revolution
The quantified self
Tracking your health
One ring to rule them all
Dealing with the data
Killer apps, saving lives
Software as treatment
Digital therapeutics
Measuring the masses
The pulse of the people
Sources and acknowledgments
Leaders

Governing America
How to save the Supreme Court
To avoid breaking a crucial institution, the nine justices need to restrain themselves

Medicine
The quantified self
Wearable technology is transforming health care. Do not delay the revolution

Inflation, bonds and stocks
The rate fate that awaits
Tighter monetary policy will squeeze global financial markets

China and the world
Cover your bases
How America and its allies should respond to China’s search for foreign outposts

Press freedom
The gag tightens
Governments are finding insidious ways to muzzle the media

Britain’s dirty-money problem
Dismantling Londongrad
If the government really wants to take on the oligarchs, it should fund its corruption-fighters properly

Letters

Letters to the editor
On children, China, quadratic voting, art, immigration, Marmite, car plates
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Tanvi Madan explains why India is not in Russia’s camp
Russia and Ukraine
Senator Bob Menendez says that the work of helping Ukraine has only just begun
Briefing

America’s Supreme Court
A countermajoritarian difficulty
The nine justices face a crisis of legitimacy

Asia


Politics in the Philippines
The name of the father
Diseased marsupials
A koalossal problem
Electricity in India
Heat and no light
South Korean politics
Dangerous waters
Banyan
Food fight
China


Foreign policy
Base instincts
Emigration
Ready to run
Morality courts
Name and shame
Chaguan
China’s vision for global security
United States


Abortion
The draft seen round the world
Weapons supplies
The depleting arsenal of democracy
Ohio primaries
Hillbilly eligible
California
America, only less so
New Orleans
A new, progressive sheriff in town
Lexington
Evan McMullin v extremism
Middle East & Africa


Education
Boy trouble
Egyptian television
Victors’ version
Africa’s fuel market
Pumped dry
African economics
The paradox of untapped riches
The Americas


Miami
Hub for a hemisphere
Mexico
Wrecking ball
Europe


Eastern Europe’s economies
Bearing the brunt
Austria and Russia
Blowing bridges
Moldova
The next target?
Spain
Bugging out
Ukraine’s war
How things are done in Odessa
Charlemagne
Macron 2.0
Britain


Britain and the oligarchs
Dirty capital
Care homes and covid
Isolated incidence
Nutrient neutrality
Bricks and water
Gang-related policing
Drill down
Post-Brexit Britain
Take back contrôle
Bagehot
Bucket-hat Boris
International


Press freedom is under attack
Business


Technology in China
Alibaba and the 40 officials
Business in Africa
Ottomanpower
War and food
Palm roiled
Logistics
Digital decongestants
Bartleby
Suntan lotion, laptop charger
Schumpeter
Facebook’s retirement plan
Finance & economics


Quantitative tightening
Braced for impact
Chinese stocks
Flee market
India’s largest IPO
Selling off the piggy bank
Russia’s economy
‘Tis but a flesh wound
Apple Pay
Tap dance
Japan’s currency
Land of the crashing yen
Lebanon’s banking crisis
Zombie defence
Buttonwood
Bond villains
Free exchange
Growing Solow
Science & technology


Aerial surveillance
The spies in the sky that see backwards in time
Aerospace
A second opinion
Sheep farming
Turning the worms
Sustainable power
Inertial frames
Culture


Preventing diseases
The GERM of a good idea
“The Good Soldier Svejk”
The idiocy of war
Shipping shenanigans
Lost at sea
A campaigning Japanese film-maker
Caught on camera
New American fiction
Trick and treat
Johnson
If you dangle, don’t mangle
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Abortion in America
Church and choice
Obituary


Franz Mohr
Travels with a piano