The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


After FTX
Crypto’s downfall
The collapse of FTX has dealt a catastrophic blow to crypto’s reputation and aspirations. Is this the end?

South-East Asia
Why Indonesia matters
Indonesia is back on the map. In the next decade it will only become more important

Financial markets
False dawn
Investors are becoming too optimistic about the world economy

The war in Ukraine
Keep calm and carry on
Russia needs a respite. The West must help Ukraine fight on

The World Cup
In defence of Qatar
It is a worthier venue for a big sporting event than other recent hosts

The climate talks
Splitting the bill
There is a better way to help poor countries fight climate change

Letters

On Britain’s police, food as a weapon, inflation, innovation, abbreviations, Trumpery
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Protests in Iran
Shirin Ebadi on the legal obstacles Iran’s protesters face
COP27
Pieter Pauw on how rich countries should approach “loss and damage” finance
Briefing


Indonesia
Thousand-island progressing
Indonesia is poised for a boom—politics permitting

Crypto’s crisis
Hold on for dear life
The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried is reverberating through the industry

Consequences of a collapse
EA games
What Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall means for his social movement
Asia


Superpower rivalry in Asia
Elephants in the long grass
Kazakhstan
One steppe forward
Sri Lanka after the crisis
Oh Colombo
India’s Supreme Court
Modi and the judges
Banyan
Speak softly, bring carrots
Energy in Indonesia
Dethroning King Coal
China


Chinese students abroad
Posters of protest
China and America
Shaky relations
Covid-19
Relax a little
Chaguan
China’s steampunk covid response
United States


The next election (already)
Series reboot
Midterm maths
Triumph of the normies
Republicans
Do do run Ron
Abortion laws
No but yes
Gay rodeo
Bucking the trend
Lexington
Anger management

Middle East & Africa


Algeria
A rotten regime saved, for now, by gas
Iran’s protests
Artful dodgers
Qatar and the Gulf
The cup runneth over
Shrinkflation
The parable of the African doughnut
Idi Amin’s legacy
Back in business
The Americas


Argentina
Another pot of white gold
El Salvador
Deep down in the crypto-dip
Europe


French politics
Second time unlucky
The war in Ukraine
After Kherson
Civil defence
Shelter from the storm
Germany
Not so nervous now
Archaeology
Basque in the spotlight
Charlemagne
Can we manage?
Britain


Britain’s armed forces
Straps around the barrel
The Labour Party
Green wedge
Britain and France
Le bromance?
The four-day workweek
On the fifth day, errands
School-leavers’ exams
BACC to the future
Gender medicine
Transgressions
Bagehot
The new masculinity
International


The future of football
Changing the game
Business


The future of carmaking
Reinventing the wheels
The World Cup
Chasing the ball
Twitter’s competitors
Fleeing the nest
Venture capital
After the party
Bartleby
Management balls
Schumpeter
League of ex-legends
Finance & economics


Persistent prices
Worst of both worlds
Dollar debt
Crash watch
Buttonwood
The tenacity of ESG
Free exchange
After the bust
Science & technology


Aviation
Welcome to the vertiport
The Space Launch System
A white elephant flies
Astronomy
A meteorite in the Cotswolds
Fisheries
Lobster brisk
Culture


Classical music
Airs and graces
Friedrich Hayek
This is what we believe
The insight of “Peanuts”
Wise children
Sporting rivalries
Clash of the titans
Cormac McCarthy’s new novels
End of the road
Johnson
Mum’s the word
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Sporting events
Poisoned chalices
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who is Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of Binance?
The Economist explains
Why is America debating prison labour?
Obituary


Hannah Pick-Goslar
From friendship to haunting