The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon

Leaders

The energy crisis
Power struggle

How to fix the world’s energy emergency without wrecking the climate

France
The man who fell to earth

Emmanuel Macron loses his majority in parliament. Can he now get anything done?

Global instability
Hungry and angry

A wave of unrest is coming. Here’s how to avert some of it

The euro zone
The ECB’s next headache

How fighting inflation could imperil the single currency

Britain’s growth crisis
Tiddlers, not titans

As new firms get bigger, the capital they need dries up
Letters

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

Russia and Ukraine
There will be African victims of Russia’s war, warn Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Olusegun Obasanjo

Roe v Wade
Overturning abortion rights ignores freedoms awarded after slavery’s end, says Peggy Cooper Davis

Roe v Wade
Abortion would be best governed by legislatures, says O. Carter Snead
Briefing

Nuclear energy
Nuclear family

Energy security gives climate-friendly nuclear-power plants a new appeal. To make good on it they have to get easier to build
Asia

Illiberalism in Indonesia
Illusory extremists

Conservation in South-East Asia
A giant stingray in the Mekong

Afghanistan
Another disaster

Labour migration in Central Asia
From Moscow with money

Banyan
Exit stage left
China

Mental health
The thought police

Aircraft-carriers
Catapulting forward

The Taiwan Strait
Whose is it?

The metaphor still holds water
Hong Kong’s most famous floating restaurant sinks
United States

Asian-Americans
Pivot to Asia

Trans rights
Lost in conversion

Petrol politics
Pump and dump

California’s schools
Snoozzzzzze on

Religion in schools
A victory for God

Uranium
Fission impossible?

Lexington
The Biden-Harris problem
Middle East & Africa

Graft in South Africa
The rot that spread

South Africa
The longhorns and the law

Israel
Once more unto the booths

Saudi Arabia
Princes, purses and putters
The Americas

Colombia
Petrofied

Bello
Murder in the Amazon

Sex education
Birds, bees and not much else
Europe

French parliamentary elections
Jupiter waning

Ukraine’s weapons
Running on empty

Italy
The Putin effect

Slovenia
The turnaround

Spanish politics
The great riposte of Córdoba

Charlemagne
From bullets to bail-outs
Britain

Growth capital
Start up, fade away

Public art
Heavy metal

Public-sector pay
Wage fright

Horizon Europe
Science friction

Coastal erosion
Uncertain shore

Biology
Cultural history

Bagehot
Remainers’ cake problem
International

Global instability
From inflation to insurrection
Technology Quarterly

The energy transition
Electrical tension

Empowered demand
The people’s power

Energy storage
Beyond batteries

Cleaning up natural gas
Low-hanging fruit

Burning natural gas
The long goodbye

Going beyond the grid
Heat, hope and hydrogen

Climate technology
Acknowledgments
Business

Big tech and health care
Doctor Google will see you now

Health care
New pharm hands

The internet in China
NetUnease

Chipmaking
Why everyone wants Arm

Bartleby
Pity the managers

Schumpeter
Bean-counters v lion-tamers
Finance & economics

Property in America
Move fast and break things

The euro zone
Thrown for a loop

Italian debt
Whenever it breaks

Crypto carnage
Blockchain reaction

Fintech fizzles
The devil to pay

Buttonwood
After the fall

Asian exceptionalism (1)
Islands of price stability

Asian exceptionalism (2)
The BoJ v the markets

Green finance
A natural question

Free exchange
Into a void
Science & technology

Nuclear waste
Oubliette

Infertility
Unblocking the problem

Sputnik V vaccine
Irregular regularity

The world’s biggest bacterium
It can grow to be a centimetre long

Palaeontology
A story carved in ivory
Culture

Feminist history
The rule of three

America’s national anthem
Proof through the night

World in a dish
In the street kitchen

Cybercrime
The pirates of Pyongyang

Nuclear accidents
Ghosts in the machines

Back Story
Debussy to a disco beat
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

World food
Against the grain
The Economist explains

The Economist explains
What is stagflation, and might it make a comeback?

The Economist explains
Why are pilots in Ukraine firing rockets so clumsily?
Obituary

Roman Ratushny
Fight without end