The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Ukraine
How to win the long war
After doing well early in the war, Ukraine is losing ground. What next?

Rights and wrongs
After the shattering of Roe
America needs to find a better way to resolve its thorniest issues

Venture capital
The reckoning
The startup bust is bad, but not as bad as the dotcom fiasco

Global financial centres
A new order in Asia
Singapore is on top in Asian finance. The biggest risks to its primacy are at home

The missing
Mexico’s shame
Staggering numbers of Mexicans are disappearing. Here’s how to save some of them
Letters

Letters to the editor
On artificial intelligence, greener buildings, inventory cycles, the subjunctive, cheap wine
By Invitation


Tech and diplomacy
Linda Thomas-Greenfield believes the UN Security Council should make better use of technology
Nuclear energy
John Barrasso wants America to lead the world in nuclear energy
Briefing


The long war
On and on
Does a protracted conflict favour Russia or Ukraine?
Asia


Politics in Singapore
Open and shut
Sovereign debt in Laos
On the edge
Civil society in India
Feeling the chill
Resisting the Taliban
Indomitable valley
Banyan
Memory loss
China


The path to communism
Three steps to heaven
Work and education
Low school
Virtual private networks
Holes in the great firewall
Pandemic life
Speakeasies v snitches
United States


Reproductive rights
The fallout from overturning Roe
The Supreme Court
An end-of-term report
Gun laws
Win one, lose one
Swimming
Where have all the lifeguards gone?
Election integrity
Questions of trust
People-smuggling
A tragedy in Texas
Lexington
The courage of a conservative
Middle East & Africa


Congo’s unstable east
Echoes of war
Cashless economies
Digital stevedores
An Arab NATO
One shield to guard them all?
The war in Yemen
Safer at last
To shave—or not to shave
The great moustache comeback
The Americas


Crime
100,000 missing Mexicans
Disaster preparedness
Rain strain
Europe


NATO meets in Madrid
Back in business
Ukraine
Nest of vipers
Olaf Scholz
The quiet German
Russia and the Balkans
Changing friends
France
Jacket, tie, nationalism
Charlemagne
The Poles’ position
Britain


Energy security
Under the deep green sea
Asparagus
Getting picky
Scottish politics
The neverendum
Child care and growth
Home economics
Ill Met
Another blow for the Met
The 2021 census
Vanishing Londoners
Retailing
Boots off
Bagehot
Boz and Jez
International


Abortion
Severe complications
Business


Venture capitalism (1)
The great Silicon Valley shake-out
Venture capitalism (2)
The VC-industrial complex
Traditional medicine
A concoction a day
Fossil fuels and war
The Sakhalin exception
Bartleby
Beach reads for business folk
Schumpeter
Mars unwrapped
Finance & economics


Financial centres
A tale of three cities
The energy crunch
Power outrage
Surging inflation
The top of the hill
America’s inflation indices
The price of accuracy
Turkey’s economy
Creeping controls
Corporate takeovers
Sweet dealmaking
Buttonwood
Terms of surrender
Free exchange
Forward misguidance
Science & technology


Neuroscience
Butterflies of the soul
Human behaviour
Smell you later, alligator
Faecal transplants
A little something in the bank
Culture


Artists at war
No more “Swan Lake”
Mexican fiction
The pity of tiny feet
The Holocaust
Warning from hell
Regulating tech
Power to the people
Contemporary art
Eyes wide shut
Johnson
The miracle of writing
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Gender quotas
Quotas on it
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How consumer drones are changing warfare
The Economist explains
Why Britain is extending controversial tariffs on steel
Obituary


Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
King of cocaine