The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon

Leaders

The world economy
Reinventing globalisation

Switching to a security-first model of globalisation would make the world more expensive and dangerous

Latin America
How democracies decay

A vicious circle of economic stagnation, popular frustration and polarised politics offers a warning to the West

Monetary policy
The week central banks changed course

With inflation soaring and markets convulsing, the contradictions in monetary policy are being exposed

Ukraine and the European Union
Ever wider

The EU should declare Ukraine a candidate for membership

Climate change
Constructive improvements

The property industry has a huge carbon footprint. Here’s how to reduce it

Getting Brexit done
The misrule of law

Britain’s bill to override the Northern Ireland protocol is a terrible idea
Letters

Letters to the editor
On nuclear weapons, California, Southern Baptists, animals, management
By Invitation

Ukraine and the EU
Allowing Ukraine into the EU is not the right move for now, say Luuk van Middelaar and Hans Kribbe

Russia and Ukraine
Moldova’s deputy prime minister urges the EU to expand its membership
Briefing

World trade
Chain reaction

After years of anxious speculation, the structure of the world’s supply chains is now clearly changing
Asia

Indian defence
Take my arms

Cannabis in Japan
Halfway high

Refugees in Bangladesh
School’s out

Gay rights
Pride and groom

Banyan
General unease
China

International diplomacy
Non-interfering mediation

China and America
In need of guardrails

Covid-19
The new normal

Virtual idols
Real problems

Chaguan
Wrong’uns, not rights
United States

Working with friends and allies
A tale of two NATOs

The Defence Production Act
Wartime, all the time

Road safety
Truth kills

New York City
Nothing to fear but fear itself?

Gun control
A deal at last

Bitcoin miners
More power to them?

Lexington
The criminal case against Donald Trump
Middle East & Africa

America’s latest policy
Change you can’t believe in

Syria and its president
Gobbling up whatever is left

Uganda
The son also rises

Haircutonomics
Cutting costs
The Americas

El Salvador
Cryptocracy

Colombia
Here comes Rodolfo

Bello
Ecuador reverts to type
Europe

EU enlargement
The unclubbable in pursuit of the unwelcoming

Rebuilding Ukraine
The $500bn question

Ukraine’s weapons plea
Keeping faith

Germany’s China policy
A new yawn

French legislative elections
Losing his grip

Charlemagne
NATO’s loose cannon
Britain

Urban growth
A population puzzle

Brexit
Forms, frustration and fans

People-smuggling
Traffic flights

Politics
The progressive pincer

Religion
Conversion rates

Bagehot
Under the hood
International

The future of tank warfare
Old-model army
Special report

Latin America
A grim period

Social trends
Changing identities

Education
A loss of learning

The economy
Stalled

The state
Captive states, misrule of law

Latin America in the world
Uncle Sam or the dragon

The future
Agreement or anomie?

Latin America
Sources and acknowledgments
Business

The car industry
The great Teslafication

Sports broadcasting
Bowled out

Management
Human capital in the 21st century

Bartleby
Work, the wasted years

Schumpeter
The too-much-of-everything store
Finance & economics

The Fed and inflation
Eight days that shook the markets

The European Central Bank
Moment of truth

Buttonwood
Inequity in equities

China’s economy
A non-fungible policy

Greening property
A tall order

Free exchange
Don’t bet on Beveridge
Science & technology

Artillery technology
Engineering the god of war

Stent technology
Painting with platelets

Pandemics
And you thought covid was bad
Culture

Power and planning in Ethiopia
Make me a city

Artistic mysteries
The other da Vinci code

The wisdom of “Mother Night”
War and words

The American mall
Walking the floors

The Wirecard scandal
Wire fraud

Johnson
Far be it from me
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

Slavery in America
The harshest affliction
The Economist explains

The Economist explains
Could artificial intelligence become sentient?

The Economist explains
Why countries change names
Obituary

Paula Rego
Paint power