Why inflation will be hard to bring down

The world this week

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Business
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Leaders


Still aloft
Inflation will be harder to bring down than markets think
Investors are betting on good times. The likelier prospect is turbulence

Peak populism
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation is part of Britain’s great moderation
Pragmatism is taking hold north and south of the border

A constitutional crisis in Israel
Israel’s proposed legal reforms are a dreadful answer to a real problem
They will damage the country at home and abroad

Plug and pay
The world won’t decarbonise fast enough unless renewables make real money
Governments must accept that green power is pricey

A chance for change
Nigeria desperately needs a new kind of leadership
Peter Obi offers the best hope of it

Letters

On China and space, Turkey, Paul Pennyfeather, Pakistan, The Gambia, banking, old age
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Nigerian politics
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on why he is running to be Nigeria’s president
Nigerian politics
Peter Obi on why he is running to be Nigeria’s president
Israeli politics
The overhaul of Israel’s judiciary will maim its democracy, says Polly Bronstein
Briefing


A hard road
Lots of investors think inflation is under control. Not so fast
Tight labour markets suggest that prices may continue to rise faster than markets think
Asia


South Asia’s filthy air
India and Pakistan are choking on each other’s pollution
Afghanistan
The Taliban are digging an enormous canal
Dry season
Australia re-bans alcohol in some Aboriginal communities
Banyan
After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media
China


The other China surveillance threat
How China’s police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
Your driving licence, madam?
How much of a concern are China’s overseas police stations?
America bad, China good
Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad
Chaguan
China is losing Taiwanese heart and minds
United States


Taking on Trump
Nikki Haley’s bid illustrates the problems of the Republican Party
The rent is too damn high
Pandemic eviction bans have spawned a renters’-rights movement
Homeward bound
In the wake of violence American cities resort to youth curfews
The power of suggestion
Should tech platforms be liable for the content they carry?
Arguing behind bars
Volunteers teach debating skills to America’s incarcerated
Shoot first, ask questions later
What America has been shooting down in the sky
Politics in drag
Why proposed laws targeting drag shows are proliferating in America

Middle East & Africa


The world’s toughest in-tray
Can a political underdog save Nigeria?
The day of judgment
Proposed legal reforms could be dire for Israel
Never let a crisis go to waste
Bashar al-Assad does not want to let a calamity go to waste
The Americas


Rate rage
Latin America’s left-wing presidents risk stoking inflation
A dictator’s purge
Daniel Ortega expels 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua
In bad nick
Latin America’s prisons are overcrowded and violent
Europe


Baby gap
Why there are so few babies in southern Europe
Building bad
Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams
On the edge
Moldova fears it may fall victim to a Russian coup plot
Judgment call
Poland’s rule-of-law conflict with the EU is coming to a head
Knives out
Trouble at Italy’s San Remo song festival
Charlemagne
What’s behind France’s fatal fascination with Russia
Britain


Sturgeon goes
Nicola Sturgeon leaves with Scotland split in two
Hostel environment
Britons take against asylum hotels
All hail the laptop classes
The shape of the post-pandemic economy in Britain
A marine puzzle
The mystery of the twitching crabs
Ocean retreat
Britain could soon give up its last African colony
Bagehot
The Brexit Re-enactment Society
International


Driven away
Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
Business


Up. Down. And sideways?
What Tencent’s rebound says about prospects for China’s big tech
Shock therapy
What European business makes of the green-subsidy race
Adani in charts
Adani companies’ decent earnings offer only moderate relief
K-popoly
Corporate intrigue at the heart of K-pop
The Iger sanction
Bob Iger makes big changes at Disney
Bartleby
Why it’s time to get shot of coffee meetings at work
Schumpeter
AI-wielding tech firms are giving a new shape to modern warfare
Finance & economics


Going great guns
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
Cornucobalt
Cobalt, a crucial battery material, is suddenly superabundant
The afterFTX
Scrutiny of major crypto institutions is intensifying
Mixing business with pleasure
Why more Chinese tourism means more capital flight
Buttonwood
Investors expect the economy to avoid recession
Multilateral mess
The World Bank’s embattled chief steps down
Brain gain
Lael Brainard will take control of America’s economic nerve centre
Free exchange
The case for globalisation optimism
Science & technology


Greening steel
A new way to clean up the steel industry
Male contraceptives
A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
Stabilising mRNA vaccines
Vaccines based on mRNA need to get out of the freezer
Plants, aphids, wasps and L-DOPA
Plants call for help with a chemical employed by people as a drug
Cosmology
Two of the most enigmatic phenomena in the cosmos may be linked
Culture


Russian culture in wartime
A portrait of the Russian artist in the age of Z
Home Entertainment
William Byrd was a favourite composer of Elizabeth I
Psychological fiction
“My Nemesis” is a tale of middle age, femininity and desire
Business and capitalism
American business and propaganda for free markets
Femicide in Mexico
An author reconstructs the life of her murdered sister
Johnson
If stigma is the problem, using different words may not help
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The rich are different
Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey’s earthquake
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Will avian flu be the next human pandemic?
Obituary


Through a child’s eyes
Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father’s creativity