The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon

Leaders

The life-sciences industry
Growth cure

The lessons of life sciences for Britain’s next prime minister

Investment and sustainability
Three letters that won’t save the planet

ESG should be boiled down to one simple measure: emissions

Heatwaves
A warning of worse to come

Adaptation will be disruptive and costly. All the more reason to curb emissions

Developing countries and debt
Progress and poverty

Emerging-market crises have become harder to resolve but less of a threat to the world economy

Inflation
Turkey shoot

Lessons from Turkey on the evils of galloping price increases
Letters

Letters to the editor
On medical data, Singapore, Boris Johnson, Switzerland, servant-leaders
By Invitation

Terrorism
Somalia’s president wants help to fight Africa’s terrorist groups

Labour in America
Reform labour laws to tackle inequality in America, urges Celine McNicholas

Labour in America
Unions are now a lifestyle choice for some young, aspirational workers, says Walter Olson
Briefing

Turkey’s economy
Inflation nation

How has the Turkish economy kept growing so fast in the face of runaway inflation?
Asia

Inflation
Feeling the pinch

Liquor licensing
Cheers!

Politics in Sri Lanka
In with the old

Politics in Pakistan
Comeback Khan

Banyan
One-track mind

Japan
States of mind
China

The economy
Tearing down the bamboo walls

Covid-19
Test after test

China, Taiwan and America
Travel bug

Language-learning in Xinjiang
Lessons from Malcolm X
United States

Climate policy
Tick, tick, boom

Congress and Ukraine
The struggle for hearts and minds

Public transport
Derailed

Lessons from a senseless slaughter
Lifting the veil on Uvalde

Maternal health
Mortal danger for mothers

Lexington
Trumped
Middle East & Africa

Egypt’s political prisoners
Too many to count

Tunisia
A reform that makes matters worse

Garden centres in Senegal
Unsecured green investments

Investing in Africa
Adventurous capital
The Americas

Social media
Follow the influencers

Mexico
Mired in meth

Bello
A yearning for Utopia
Europe

Italy
Game over

Unblocking the Black Sea
When will Odessa’s port be reopened?

Ukraine and Belarus
Common enemies

NATO, Russia and Greece
Red-hot in Alex

Charlemagne
Let the sleeper awaken
Britain

The golden triangle
Bio Britannia

Haleon’s listing
Don’t gloat about the float

The Tory race
Sunak v Truss

Levelling up
What was that, again?

Unmanned aviation
A motorway for drones

Bagehot
The battle for the Stupid Party
International

Women’s sport
Raising the game
Special report

ESG investing
In need of a clean-up

Asset managers
The saviour complex

ESG fund fees
How to charge more

Investors
The warm glow

Companies
Internalising the externalities

Rating agencies
The signal and the noise

The regulators
Missionary creep

The future of ESG
Measure less, but better

ESG investing
Acknowledgments
Business

American business
A juggling act

Business and the climate
Watershed’s moment

Bartleby
The latest in WFH

Gen Z and work
What graduates want

The microeconomics of luxury
Puttin’ it up at the Ritz

Schumpeter
Unlocking Keyence’s secret
Finance & economics

Emerging economies
The fragile 53

Wall Street
Bittersweet

The Big Mac index
A tale of three parities

Energy in Asia
Power play

Housing in China
No delivery, no payment

Buttonwood
Wake-up call

Free exchange
Aiming high
Science & technology

Conflict analysis
Predict and survive

Depression and serotonin
Wrong turning

Menstruation and athletics
Cycle races

Awards
Association of British Science Writers
Culture

Kissinger on statecraft
The vision thing

Opioids in America
The guilty and the gone

World in a dish
Guts and glory

Buckminster Fuller
Designs for living

Musical prodigies
The power of 3

Back Story
The oligarch’s lament
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

Extreme heat
The scorched Earth
The Economist explains

The Economist explains
Why have new Omicron strains of covid not been given Greek names?

The Economist explains
The increase in simultaneous heatwaves
Obituary

Gloria Allen
How to be a lady