The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

India
India’s next decade
The Indian economy is being rewired. The opportunity is immense—and so are the stakes

Financial markets
Grisly reality
Getting to the bottom of the plunge in America’s stockmarket

Surveillance at work
The professional panopticon
Look out, office workers. You are being watched—by your boss

Sri Lanka’s crisis
Gota go
Sri Lanka is on the brink of collapse. The president must resign

Genetic screening
Private letters, public promise
Britain’s plan for whole-genome sequencing of newborns poses ethical quandaries

Letters

Letters to the editor
On central banks and inflation, China, Ronald Fisher, ketamine, granny flats, email sign-offs
By Invitation


Energy and climate
Yemi Osinbajo on the hypocrisy of rich countries’ climate policies
Russia, Ukraine and China
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo says the war in Ukraine will accelerate the geopolitical shift from West to East
Russia and Ukraine
Moritz Schularick argues that Germany should immediately cut off Russian gas
Briefing

India’s economy
A new formula
India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing big economy this year. Can the expansion continue?

Asia


India
Saffron nation
Crisis in Sri Lanka
The morning after
Australian politics
For whom the teals poll
North Korea and the virus
State of emergency
Banyan
One-way street
Japan’s far-flung islands
Base case
China


Hong Kong’s civil service
Stay neutral, love the party
Covid-19 in Shanghai
The never-ending lockdown
The Grand Canal
Taming the waters
Covid-19 and the homeless
Victims, not vectors
Chaguan
A self-repressing society
United States


The mid-terms
Voting wars
Forced assimilation
Stolen children
Conservation
The concrete jungle
Educating the undocumented
Meanness to migrants
Wrongful convictions
Delayed justice
California cannabis
High maintenance
Lexington
Donald Trump’s brutal turn
Middle East & Africa


Zimbabwe
Savings and groan
Financial innovation in Zimbabwe
Heiferinflation
Zambia
Copper-bottomed promises
Palestine and Israel
A death in Jenin
Algeria and Morocco
The danger of lighting a gas fire
The Americas


Brazil
The cross on the ballot
Crime
Crack on
Bello
Staying alive
Europe


Ukraine
No ports in a storm
Russia
Putin’s parade
Germany
A portent or a blip?
The French left
NUPES and dupes
Danish TV
Back to “Borgen”
Charlemagne
Fifth time lucky
Britain


An interview with Boris Johnson
A hawk on the wing
Partygate 2
Sir Beer Starmer
Northern Ireland
Protocol harm
The cost of doing business
Confidence stick
Slimmed pickers
Ukrainian seasonal workers pick much of Britain’s fruit
Driving
Codes of conduct
Premier League owners
Fall of the Roman empire
Bagehot
A progressive prisoner’s dilemma
International


International relations
Connective action
Business


The tech crunch
Pop!
The tech crunch (2)
Can Coupang deliver?
The zero-covid industrial complex
Acing the test
The future of work
Big Brotherly boss
Bartleby
The woolliest words in business
Schumpeter
Where the wild things were
Finance & economics


Global housing
Braced for a storm
Global trade
A slow train from China
Russia’s economy
Bearing up
Consumer prices
Public enemy
Buttonwood
The Italian sob
Cashlessness
Pix perfect
Free exchange
Engine repair
Science & technology


Genetic disease
Building the future of screening
Immunology
Fed by the hand that should bite it
Animal behaviour
Buzz off!
Science and international politics
Frozen
Culture


The infrastructure of rock
Thank you for the music
World in a dish
Made right for Iowa
Imperial nostalgia
The sun never sets
Eternal life
Who wants to live for ever?
Tricksy fiction
Her story, and his
Back Story
The editor in the Kremlin
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


War and social media
Under the radar
Obituary


Ron Galella
Starstruck