The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The pandemic
China’s covid failure
Caught between raging disease and unpopular and costly lockdowns, Xi Jinping has no good fix

Oil prices
Will the cap fit?
Why the West’s proposed price cap on Russian oil is no magic weapon

The gaming market
CoD and chips
Why trustbusters should let Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard

The cyberwar in Ukraine
The digital front
Ukraine has shown how cyber-defence can prevail

Sex
The wounds of silence
Sexual problems can wreck people’s lives. Yet remedies are often simple

Letters

On Qatar and the World Cup, Ukraine, Elon Musk, Janet Yellen, “Peanuts”
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Chinese politics
The Chinese government exercises control through local busybodies, explains Lynette H. Ong
Chinese politics
The protests in China may change the way Xi Jinping runs the country, says Minxin Pei
Briefing


China
Zero options
Xi Jinping’s failing covid strategy leaves China with no good way forward
Asia


America’s Asian allies
When the chips are down
Taiwan’s elections
Across the Strait, a lockdown protest
Pakistan’s latest crisis
Hail the chief
New Zealand’s gangs
Mongrel mobsters
Banyan
Pilgrim’s progress
Crimes against Indian women
How the other half live
China


Protests in China
Echoes of the past
The protests and ethnicity
Solidarity, of a sort
Frustrated students
Testing the party
Chaguan
Lessons from a protest
United States


Arms control
The conundrum of three-way nuclear deterrence
Needle exchanges
No harm intended
New blood in Congress
To the winners, the spoilers
Morticians
Bodies, bodies, bodies
The future of Napa Valley
In vino veritas
Lexington
Star dreck

Middle East & Africa


Iran’s economy
Too poor to strike
Israel
Numbers is just a book in the Bible
South Africa
Ranch of government
Angola
Mine craft
Kenya
Brotherhood of bikers
The Americas


Venezuela
Oil be back
Bello
The coming swing to the right
Europe


Ukraine
Crimean War
Hungary
Big Viktor is watching
Germany
Angela Merkel’s faded glory
Spain
Unreasonably blue
Illegal drugs
So goes the blow
Charlemagne
United States, divided Europe
Britain


Looking after the elderly
Wear and care
The census
Few on pews
The Conservative Party
Tory jarheads
Innovation in Britain
Here’s an idea
Monarchy
Royal erosion
Energy efficiency
Insulation nation
Bagehot
If you don’t like it, there’s the door
International


Sexual health
Talking about it at last
Business


Big business
America’s best firms…and the rest
Video games
Game on or game over?
Energy in Germany
The hand on the tap
Bartleby
Ins and outs
Schumpeter
The other gig economy
Finance & economics


Energy sanctions
Crude weapon
Green investing
Uncle Sham
Dirty money
Laundry softener
Central-bank reserves
Vault face
Global taxation
Fiscal feud
Buttonwood
PE-kaboo
Free exchange
I’ll do things for you
Science & technology


Cyberwarfare
A nest of wipers
Cyberwar and cybercrime
Black hats, white hats, grey hats
Pollution and suicide
Ill winds
A drug for Alzheimer’s disease
Enter lecanemab
A diving dinosaur
An amphibious dinosaur from the Cretaceous
Culture


Technology and fairness
The algorithm’s mercy
The history of Venice
In the doge house
Ukrainian culture
Art against war
Icelandic fiction
Home truths
Johnson
Rise of the cyborgs
Social housing
Heaven with the gates off
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The football World Cup
Margins matter
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why has America’s army recruitment plummeted?
The Economist explains
Why are boys doing badly at school?
Obituary


Jiang Zemin
An unlikely strongman