The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon

Leaders

Foreign policy
How to deal with despots

Western foreign policy sets out to be ethical, but often ends up being ineffectual

Sri Lanka
The hard road back

The new president must persuade his suffering people to endure more pain

The world economy
After the recession

Lower inflation and greener energy are worth the price of a short downturn

Digital business
Cloudburst

The era of big-tech exceptionalism may be over

War and hunger
Stopping Somalis from starving

Saving lives will involve talking to terrorists
Letters

Letters to the editor
On gas markets, priests, Shakespeare, China, folk cuisine, turning 65, games
By Invitation

Russia and Ukraine
Jack Watling on how Ukraine can avoid a war of attrition

Japan
Abe Shinzo’s legacy encompasses the Indo-Pacific, says his former speechwriter
Briefing

Fascism in Russia
A dark state

Vladimir Putin is in thrall to a distinctive brand of Russian fascism. That is why his country is such a threat to Ukraine, the West and his own people
Asia

Fixing Sri Lanka’s economy
Obstacle course

Pakistan’s economy
A fine balance

Myanmar
Desperate measures

Sino-Australian relations
Speaking terms

Banyan
Presidented
China

China and Europe
Showing more bottle
United States

Immigration and the economy
Not coming to America

Immigration bureaucracy
Green-card blues

The culture wars
Return fire

Congress
Deus ex Manchina

Transgender health care for children
In search of evidence

Monkeypox
No lessons learned

Lexington: The gerontocrats
The gerontocrats
Middle East & Africa

Somalia’s food crisis
Hunger in the Horn

Energy and the environment
Drilling into the world’s lungs

Israel, Russia and Ukraine
Nasty tsarist vibrations

Obesity in the Middle East
Weighty matters
The Americas

Peru
All hat, no cattle

Bello
The fuel and the fire
Europe

Italy’s election
A nationalist turn

Ukraine’s southern offensive
Taking it back

Ukraine’s wheat
Fragile pact

Russian gas
Cutting calories

French energy
Delayed reaction

Art, religion and war
Putin’s false piety
Britain

The Bank of England
Dreadneedle Street

A night away
Happy champing

Newport Wafer Fab
Red line

Northern Ireland
The unlikely dove

Decarbonisation
More than hot air

Bagehot
The laughing cavaliers
1843 magazine

Summer reading
MBS: despot in the desert

Summer reading
How magicians won Facebook

Summer reading
East of Mariupol: what happened to the Ukrainians who fled to Russia?

Summer reading
Look who’s stalking: the black leopards of Gloucestershire

Summer reading
How to go to therapy without talking about your feelings

Summer reading
Did this man spend 20 years in prison for murdering someone who is still alive?

Summer reading
The sun is both our creator and destroyer
Business

Oil companies and the climate
Nationally determined contributors

Volkswagen
Diess-fenestration

Digital advertising
Oh, snap

Bartleby
The perils of perfectioinsm

Schumpeter
Dogfight over Spirit
Finance & economics

Recession fears
Coming in to land

China’s economy
Less growth, more credibility

Commercial property
Through the floor

Buttonwood
Now and again

Free exchange
Land-locked
Science & technology

Palaeoanthropology
A grand old age

Behavioural sciences
Nudge factor

Virology
Strange brew
Culture

Music and protest
Going for a song

A controversial poet
Only an attitude remains

Technology and terminology
Reality check
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

Covid-19 drugs
The vaxxed take Pax
Obituary

Ko Jimmy
Darkness to light