The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon

Leaders

British politics
Clownfall

A doomed prime minister and a stricken country

Social media and security
Who’s afraid of TikTok?

The world’s most exciting app is also its most mistrusted

America after Roe
The new exceptionalism

America has a set of laws on important subjects that do not reflect the views of Americans

Education
Crisis in the classroom

Governments are ignoring the pandemic’s disastrous effect on education

Leveraged buy-out
Private pain

The buy-out business may struggle in a changed economic climate

Chile
Magna mistake

Chile’s draft constitution is a fiscally irresponsible left-wing wish list. Voters should reject it
Letters

Letters to the editor
On justice services, abortion, Africa, car dealers, Turkey, BTS, technology at work
By Invitation

Russia and Ukraine
Boris Bondarev on Vladimir Putin’s craven diplomats

Finance
The global economy needs to be better prepared for the coming storm, says Kathryn Judge

Finance and economics
Brad DeLong asks what America can learn from its past bouts of inflation
Briefing

Social media, competition and security
Quavering

TikTok’s rivals are nervous. Governments are suspicious. A billion users and rising are glued to their screens
Essay

An anatomy of erasure
How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state
Asia

East Asian relations
Cold comfort

Afghanistan
Bureaucratic nightmare

Indian politics
Shinde shindig

Women in South Asia
Bridges to liberty

Banyan
The new isolationism
China

Global infrastructure investment
Building blocs

Floods
Above the water line

Online security
Hacked

Youth culture
Having a larp
United States

American conservatives
Trumpism’s new Washington army

Fetal personhood
Votes for zygotes?

Command and control
Allow and unleash

Rebranding the Asian carp
Copicat

Latino voters
No, no se puede

Lexington
High noon for Liz Cheney
Middle East & Africa

Congo
Either ore

Football in Sierra Leone
He shoots, he scores…

Israel’s new prime minister
Yair apparent

Egypt
Paving paradise

Railways in the Middle East
A burgeoning new bazaar
The Americas

Chile
Hearts, not minds

Argentina
Find works; insert spanner; repeat

Colombia
Rafting with rebels
Europe

Ukraine’s counter-offensive
Kherson bound

Ukraine’s disappeared
Fate unknown

Poland’s arms port
Welcome to boom town

German-Polish relations
From bad to worse

France’s new government
Minority report

Russian repression
Slings and arrows

Charlemagne
No-fly zone
Britain

Boris Johnson
The wreckage he leaves behind

Economic policy
Spend rift

Politics and sex
Men behaving badly

Employment
Backlog Britain

Adult education
New tricks

Chinese espionage
Two mouths, one message

Bagehot
The toxicity of Boris Johnson
International

Education
Millions of wasted minds
Business

Private equity
PE lessons

Business in Poland
Strong headwinds

Venture capitalism in Europe
A species reborn

Bartleby
How to read corporate culture

Schumpeter
Self-Reliance
Finance & economics

Sino-American rivalry
Tougher than tariffs

Commodity prices
Helter skelter

Hidden risks in China
Case closed

Buttonwood
Last man standing

Corporate debt in America
Bills, bills, bills

Free exchange
Levelling down
Science & technology

The new physics
Beyond the Standard Model
Culture

Art and aristocracy
Hearts of stone

Gaming the haj
To be a pilgrim

World in a dish
The braids of a loaf

Britain and Hong Kong
Perfidious Albion

Peter Higgs and his boson
Hide and seek

Back Story
The lives of Zelensky
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

Covid-19 vaccines
It could have been worse
The Economist explains

The Economist explains
Why is Georgia struggling to join the EU?

The Economist explains
Why are cluster munitions so dangerous?
Obituary

Peter Brook
The mystic of the stage