The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

War and farming
The food catastrophe
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business

Sweden, Finland and NATO
The meaning of membership
It shows the flimsiness of Vladimir Putin’s justification for invading Ukraine

Cryptocurrencies
Sink or swim
As financial markets tumble, we decode the cryptocurrency crash

Immigration
State of disarray
America’s states are drifting apart over illegal immigration

Travel after covid-19
From asterisks to spiderwebs
The old travel patterns are not coming back. Time for a new approach to public transport

Letters

Letters
On abortion, Jaroslav Hasek, doctors, Celtic, staff meetings
By Invitation


Finance and economics
Claudia Sahm on what is driving inflation in America
Finance and economics
Angel Ubide expects inflation to subside if supply shocks fade
Finance and economics
Jón Steinsson believes that a painless disinflation is no longer plausible
Briefing

The food crisis
After the pestilence, after the war…
War, extreme weather and export controls are driving tens of millions of people into potentially deadly hunger

Asia


Myanmar’s civil war (1)
These new puritans
Myanmar’s civil war (2)
Pass the Kool-Aid
Turkmenistan
Last chance salon
Demography
NIMBYs v babies
Banyan
Attributary state
China


Human rights in Xinjiang
Nothing to see here
Religious freedom
Cardinal Zen’s cardinal sin
Pandemic measures
All eyes on Beijing
Online censorship
Found in translation
Chaguan
It’s all political
United States


Benefits for immigrants
The welfare states
Domestic terrorism
Sickening theory and lethal practice
Supply chains
O’Hareport
Pennsylvania
Keystone-cop politics
Oregon’s sixth district
Ineffective altruism
Abortion
Outrage and outliers
Lexington
The quiet Ukraine consensus
Middle East & Africa


The African Development Bank
Too important to fail
Free speech in Ethiopia
Gagged
Lebanon
Shake-up and stasis
Sandstorms
A harrowing haze
Iran
Mahdi mania
The Americas


Colombia
The Medellín model
Divination
She sells seer shells
Bello
Distant neighbours
Europe


The war in Ukraine
Unblocking Odessa
Ukraine
The relief of Kharkiv
France’s new prime minister
First Borne
Germany
Another blow for Mr Scholz
Greece
Hemlock for hacks
Charlemagne
Giving faces to “faceless Eurocrats”
Britain


The future of transport
The road not taken
The Northern Ireland protocol
Here we go again
Police recruitment
The beat has changed
The cost of living
Get with the program
The NHS
Silent as the grave
A gas price that is going down
Wholesale gas prices in Britain have collapsed
The right to roam
Forgive us our trespasses
Bagehot
UKSA! UKSA! UKSA!
International


The propaganda front
The Putin Show
Business


SoftBank
Hard landing
Elon Musk and Twitter
Trick or tweet?
Indian business
A new foundation
Stockmarket listings
Where did the cash go?
Retailing
Supermarket crash
Bartleby
Making brainstorming better
Schumpeter
Slow and unsteady
Finance & economics


The world economy
Recession watch
China’s economy
When bad data are good
Inflation in America
Powder keg
Cryptocurrencies
Unstablecoin
Climate finance
Carbon sinks
Buttonwood
Is China uninvestible?
Dodgy data
Half-measures
Free exchange
Immaterial needs
Science & technology


Carbon nanotechnology
Pouring graphene’s bright future
Culture


Therapeutic art
Comic relief
Mankind and other animals
Arrival of the interspecies
Scoundrels of yore
Pleasure without principle
Ecofiction
Back to earth
Royalists and Roundheads
The dogs of war
Johnson
Enter the dragon app
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Climate change
That non-sinking feeling
Obituary


Saotome Katsumoto
The forgotten fire