The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Brazil
The man who would be Trump
Jair Bolsonaro threatens democracy in Latin America’s biggest country

Energy in Europe
Crunch time
How to tackle Europe’s energy crisis without destroying public finances and power markets

Elections in America
Meet our midterm model
The Republican Party is set to do worse in November than it should. Donald Trump’s influence is to blame

The global financial system
The mighty dollar
Why the dollar is strong—and what might threaten its supremacy in the long run

Public health
Spying on sewage could save lives
Wastewater surveillance is a cheap tool to spot health problems, but it is open to abuse

British politics
Can Liz Truss fix Britain?
The new prime minister must eschew pantomime radicalism if she is to succeed
Letters

Letters to the editor
On children in war, Australia, credit cards, the Republicans, gene therapies, the European Union
By Invitation


Health
Invest in health-care technology to make pregnancy safer in Africa, says Temie Giwa-Tubosun
Russia and Ukraine
How to prevent a crisis at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, according to a Fukushima veteran
Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s crony capitalism disincentivises economic reform, says Konstantin Sonin
Briefing


Brazil’s election
Trump’s tropical disciple
Jair Bolsonaro is poised to lose the Brazilian election. He will not go quietly
Asia


Trains in the ‘stans
The middle rail
Propaganda in Vietnam
A noisy noise annoys Hanoi
Visas
The other travel chaos
Banyan
Shotime
Essay


Alaska
Land, oil and ice
China


Covid-19 and social mobility
Greasing the ladders
New lockdowns
Testing their patience
Xi Jinping
Travelin’ man
Mooncakes
Too rich for some
United States


The midterms
Split decision
Water shortages
High and dry
Hospital food
The best medicine
Abortion and the midterms
Roeing forward
Remote learning in prisons
Reading between the bars
Lexington
Joe Biden’s big gamble
Middle East & Africa


Iran’s nuclear programme
An unenriching debate
HoneyZoom
Long-distance marriages
Saudi Arabia
Bulldozing history
African video games
Local heroes
Angola’s election
The winner loses
The Americas


Chile
Second time’s a charm
Bello
The gun that failed to fire
Europe


Europe’s energy crisis
Preventing the big chill
Irish energy
Western wind
War in Ukraine
A breakthrough
Italy’s election
Big Brothers
Ukrainian surrogate mothers
Thursday’s children
Charlemagne
Our rich friends in the north
Britain


Liz Truss
New leader, familiar problems
Financial markets
Crisis? What crisis?
Food prices
Eat up
Publishing
Taking a leaf out of your book
Suicide
A new pattern
Bagehot
The curious case of Kwasi Kwarteng
International


Public health
What lies beneath
Business


Companies and their workers
Help still wanted
Technology and academia
Mr Smith goes to Silicon Valley
Bartleby
Loud about quiet quitting
The beauty business
Wrinkle treatment
European utilities
Generating controversies
Schumpeter
The siren call
Finance & economics


Currencies (1)
The merge
Currencies (2)
Dodging the dollar
Buttonwood
So near to a good year
Currencies (3)
Pretty green
Free exchange
Power corrupts
Science & technology


Extreme weather
A taste of years to come
Vaccinology
Parasites prevented
Ancient surgery
One foot in the grave
Microscopy
Zooming in
Culture


Progress and its discontents
Can’t buy me love
Television in Brazil
Frame the swamp
British fiction
A life’s work
Writers’ lives
The lady vanishes
Military strategy
The general in his labyrinth
Johnson
Comprise and compromise
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Global normalcy index
Same same, but different
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Will China’s economy ever overtake America’s?
The Economist explains
Who is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?
Obituary


Issey Miyake
A piece of cloth