Say goodbye to 1.5°C

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Climate change
Goodbye 1.5°C
The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism

Brazil’s election
Now for the hard part
As president, Lula will oversee a bitterly divided, cash-strapped country

Business in America
Big tech, big trouble
Slowing growth is exposing the governance flaws of big tech firms

Education in America
Making a meritocracy
The end of racial preferences in college admissions could be a chance to build a better system

Inflation and interest rates
Japanese turning
Financial danger could be brewing in the last bastion of low interest rates

Letters

Letters to the editor
On cocaine, Liz Truss, pop music, antidepressants, diets
By Invitation


Finance and economics
France’s finance minister on how to fight inflation and preserve stability
America’s 2022 midterms
Republicans should focus on kitchen-table issues, argues Governor Glenn Youngkin
America’s Supreme Court
End life tenure for the Supreme Court’s judges, argues Eric Segall
Briefing


The 1.5°C target
An inconvenient truth
The goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C has shaped climate policy worldwide. But it is not a goal the world is going to achieve
Asia


Immigration
Open wide your gates
Small business
The unkindest cut
Data hacks
Once more unto the breach
Climate change and religion
The colour of Islam
Banyan
Not enough to speak
China


The armed forces
Preparing for a fight
China’s air force
Top guns for hire
Corruption
Xi’s forever war
Chaguan
The city that covid forgot
United States


Campaigning
Following the money
Californian politics
The golden mean
Affirmative action (1)
Off colour
Affirmative action (2)
Holistic cow
Referendums
Obamacare’s slow victory
Midterm maths
Bang average
Lexington
Crime and punishment

Middle East & Africa


The green continent
Powering Africa
Jihadism in the Horn
Rise of the clans
Israel’s election
Swinging right
The World Cup
Not quite over the goal line
The Americas


Brazil
Hallelula
Argentina
Slum dunk
Bello
Lula’s new world
Europe


Germany
It’s logical
Ukraine
Putin’s cold war
Denmark election
Matching the right
Turkey
Fake news and censorship
The French hard-right
The €9m question
Britain


Industrial action
A winter of walkouts
Cyber-security
Convenience v comfort
UK plc
The gathering gloom
Northern Ireland
Donaldson’s dilemma
The Met
Good cop
Medical training
Go east
Immigration and the census
Diversity spreads out
Bagehot
Why small boats are a big problem
International


Food and geopolitics
Bread-blocking bandits
Special report


Climate adaptation
The challenge of the age
An uneven playing field
To those who have...
Protecting property
Big things and little ones
Agriculture
Room at the bottom
Big business
Looking after their own
Finance
Dream bigger
A time to act
Common sense
Business


Corporate structures
The new conglomerates
Technology
Bad tech
The blue-tick index
Twitter wants to charge users based on purchasing-power parity
Twitter
Singing for its supper
Business in China
When the circus leaves town
Bartleby
The play’s the thing
Schumpeter
Ties that blind
Finance & economics


The West v Russia
From crisis to catastrophe
Europe’s economy
Double trouble
Inflation
Faster, higher, longer
Foreign reserves
A few billion between friends
Buttonwood
Red faces
China’s property crack-up
Breaking the banks
Free exchange
Biden’s billions
Science & technology


Rogue geoengineering
A new Great Game
Exam nerves’ real cause
High anxiety
Entomological agriculturalists
The constant gardeners
Ecology
In praise of introduced species
Culture


Urban development
Building his case
Detective fiction
Mystery lady
Contemporary ballet
The Balanchine method
Film and politics
The revolution will not be televised
Janet Yellen
Queen of economics
Johnson
Not on the same page
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Energy in Europe
The calm before the storm
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Has the Ukraine war killed off the ground-attack aircraft?
The Economist explains
Why blue New York might turn redder in the midterms
Obituary


Carmen Callil
Warrior woman