The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Energy
Europe’s coming winter peril
A bitter energy crisis is in prospect. Europe needs to act now

American politics
Wake up, Democrats
For the good of America, the governing party urgently needs to take on its own activists

Japan
After Abe
Japan should stay true to Abe Shinzo’s vision—up to a point

Government finances
British understatement
Government budgets face a painful crunch. Tory leadership hopefuls seem oblivious

Cryptography
Post-quantum solace
A future-proof way to encrypt sensitive data is now available. Put it to use

Catholic sex abuse
Let priests wed
Scrapping the celibacy rule would make it easier to recruit clerics who don’t abuse children
Letters

Letters to the editor
On pumped-storage hydropower, the Republicans, corporate governance, consultants, America’s national anthem, writing, moustaches
By Invitation


Japan
Abe Shinzo was the most important Japanese leader in the past 50 years, says Kevin Rudd
Education in America
Banning critical race theory in schools is unjustified, argues Jason Stanley
Education in America
Critical race theory is appropriate in universities, but not schools, says Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder
Briefing


Peak progressive
Peak progressive
Democrats are realising that they must moderate or die
Asia


Japanese politics
Staying the course
Sri Lanka’s crisis
Gota goes
Micronesia and its neighbours
Politics takes atoll
South Korea
The way the wind blows
Banyan
Abe’s legacy
China


Nationalism
Heading down a dangerous path
Protests in Henan
Send in the thugs
Title towns
The civilising effect
United States


The culture war in education
Schools for scandal
New York’s graffiti revival
More writing on the wall
The American economy
Recession-spotting
Rest in pieces
Farewell to a bizarre landmark
Lexington
Democrats dither dangerously on abortion
Middle East & Africa


American diplomacy
A voyage to nowhere
Gaza
The blockade generation
Kenya
Rhinos, cows and men with guns
Angola
A legacy of looting
The Americas


Brazil
Might Bolsonaro try to steal the vote?
Bello
On the move
Europe


Europe’s energy
Winter is coming
Ukraine’s winter
Cold front
The Ukraine war
Deep battle
Inflation in Turkey
The price is wrong
Farming
How many cows are too many?
Charlemagne
Leisure class
Britain


Trust exercise
The Conservative Party after Boris Johnson
Ethnic-minority candidates
The British dream
Caretaker government
The interregnum
Demography
Autumn leaves
Pick your battles
The British Army has a new focus and outdated equipment
Valuing culture
The play’s not the only thing
Bagehot
The rotten presidency
International


Sex abuse and the Catholic church
The unending storm
Business


Semiconductors
When the chips are way down
Twitter v Elon Musk
Blocked and reported
Business in South Africa
Fighting the power
Natural gas and European industry
The high cost of low pressure
Bartleby
Small moments of great tension
Schumpeter
Oil’s new eastern bloc
Finance & economics


Interest rates and budgets
When maturity misleads
American inflation
On the up and up
Central banks and markets
The visible hand
Buttonwood
The new abnormal
Growth in Japan
Abenomics After Abe
Free exchange
Disciples of discipline
Science & technology


Cryptography in the quantum age
Secrets squirrelled
Astronomy
I’m in heaven
Biotechnology
Green-sky thinking
Wine bottles
A pour decision
Oncology
Protein shake-up
Culture


Summer reading
Pages in the sun
The Normans
They stooped to conquer
Grotesque fiction
Ignoble lords
Music and resistance
From El-Salam to the world
Johnson
Distinctions with a difference
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Population forecasts
People watching
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Can tax cuts boost Britain’s lacklustre economy?
The Economist explains
What makes a global financial centre?
Obituary


Abe Shinzo
Tracking the samurai