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The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Climate change
COP-out
Why Glasgow will be a disappointment. And why it will nonetheless be crucial

Coups in Africa
With a putsch and a shove
The army’s takeover in Sudan highlights a worrying trend

American taxes
Capital pains
Why Democrats’ tax plans are such a mess

Chinese women
Clouds over the sky
China says it defends women’s rights. So why attack feminists?

Decentralised finance
The fun in non-fungible
Our NFT auction reveals the promise of decentralised finance—and some big problems

Letters

Letters to the editor
On food technologies, Top Glove, malarial bed nets, Poland, liberals, email
Briefing

Migration
African odyssey
Many more Africans are migrating within their own continent than to Europe

Asia


South-East Asia
ASEANgst
Civil war in Myanmar
In for the long haul
Banyan
BJP v Bollywood
Emissions targets
Zero effort
Afghanistan’s economy
The next crisis
Japanese society
The sun, the moon and the ponytail
China


Feminism
The long wait
Media controls
All the news that’s fit to reprint
United States


Entrenched partisanship
The Democrats’ disadvantage
Virginia’s next governor
Down to the wire
Police and politics (1): Minneapolis
A question of safety
Police and politics (2): Vaccine mandates
Hands up, no shots
Narco-hippos
Wallow on
Prostitution
Bringing sex work out of the shadows
Lexington
No one loves Joe Biden
The Americas


Chile
Fuelling the flames
Digital currencies
Red, white and blue tape
Bello
No-growth economics
Middle East & Africa


Sudan
The generals strike back
African languages
Free clicks
The United Nations
Expatonomics
Countering Iran
Diplomacy by other means
Israel
Bibi’s long bye-bye
Europe


Turkey
Autumn of the patriarch
The EU’s borders
Wire transfer
Serbia
A Balkans arms race
French acronyms
PFUE? LOL
Russia
The new Communists
Charlemagne
Going nuclear
Britain


Fiscal policy
Farewell to austerity
The budget
Something ventured
Industry
Battery bonanza
Earnings
Pay up
Benin bronzes
Coming home to roost
Privacy
Taking on the taxman
Bagehot
Super-green Boris
International


Vaccine passports
Hard pass
Special report


Stabilising the climate
The biggest picture
State of play
The Paris challenge
The Asian century’s emissions
Eastern approaches
Economics and energy
Flows and fuel
Negative emissions
If I could turn back time
Veils and ignorance
Governing the atmosphere
Business


Tech earnings
Cloudy with a dearth of chips
Japanese corporate governance
Poison-pill popping
Trouble brewing
America Inc’s earning
Retail subscription services
Outside the box
Shell
Splitting time?
Bartleby
Into battle they don’t go
Schumpeter
Mad Men v machines
Finance & economics


Non-fungible tokens
Through the looking glass
Our auction
The NFT party
Tax in America
A tale of two profits
The energy crunch
Perverse but persistent
Buttonwood
Back with a vengeance
Housing in China
The long wait for a tax everyone loves to hate
Free exchange
The pyjama revolution
Science & technology


Private space stations
Placing perches in the sky
Avian reproduction
No sex please, we’re condors
Renewable energy
A census of solar cells
Books & arts


Human rights in China
Xinjiang blues
“The Potato Eaters”
Earthy delights
Johnson
Write like an Egyptian
Europe in the 21st century
Crisis management
British fiction
Smoke and mirrors
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Electric vehicles
The grid’s the thing
Obituary


Anne Saxelby
Say cheese, America!

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Data and the economy
Instant economics
A real-time revolution in economics could make the world better off

Nigeria
The crime scene at the heart of Africa
Insurgency, secessionism and banditry threaten Nigeria. The government should wake up

Monetary policy
Don’t jump the gun
The Bank of England should not raise interest rates until 2022

Democracy in the EU
An October revolution
A backlash against bad government in eastern Europe is at last under way

The geopolitics of money
Be swift, be bold
If Western countries and firms want to stay in charge of global money flows, they have to modernise how they happen

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Pakistan, the American navy, management, the Peshtigo fire, Ethiopia, learning classics, God
Briefing

The real-time revolution in economics
The real-time revolution
How the pandemic reshaped the dismal science

Asia


Reform in Central Asia
From gulag to ordinary grumbles
Afghanistan
More extreme than the extremists
Violence in Kashmir
Valley of fear
Politics in Singapore
Outside job
Banyan
Learning how to be happy again
China


Uyghur culture
Poetry from the gulag
Nuclear weapons
Glide and seek
Chaguan
The Communist Party’s confidence
United States


Wages
Striketober
Ethnic studies
Race and class
Warming seas
Considering the lobster
California
Toying with the nanny state
Social media
Devious licks
Secessionists
Oregone
Lexington
Reconstructing America
The Americas


Peru
Jobs for the comrades
Brazil’s woes
President anti-vaxxer
Mexico
Not ageing gracefully
Middle East & Africa


Nigeria
When things fall apart
Africa’s wannabe financial centres
Capital cities
Lebanon
Probing too deep
Iran
Andy Warhol and the ayatollahs
Europe


Ukraine
Winter is coming
Hungary
The unexpected challenger
Spain
Liberty lady
Germany’s next government
Green-lit
Ritual slaughter
Trouble and knife
Charlemagne
A court of kings
Britain


Monetary policy
Ready for a leap in the dark
Agriculture
Making a pig’s ear of it
Climate change
Jolly green giant
Investment
Doffing the cap
Trains
Railing against modernity
Domestic operations
Call in the troops, again
Bagehot
A great parliamentarian
International


Climate change
Heated debates
Business


Samsung Electronics
The third star
A makeover at Facebook?
About-face
Bartleby
Why mission statements matter
Green business
The hydrogen rush
Chinese industry
Awaiting electrocution
Schumpeter
Let a hundred flowers bloom
Finance & economics


China’s economy
From the sublime to the subpar
Property in China
Evergrande plans
Crypto assets
Bitcoin bounce
The Bundesbank
Hawk descending
SWIFT
Message in a battle
Buttonwood
When the pipes creak
Free exchange
Tanks for nothing
Science & technology


Servicing EVs
Farewell to the grease monkey
Self-driving cars
Hands off the wheel
Extracting power from waves
Like clockwork
Tuberculosis
Making resistance useless
Evolution in action
Spoils of war
Books & arts


Entertainment in the Arab world
Tales of the unexpected
Rare foods
Refined tastes
Municipal mistakes
The coast of dystopia
Spies and the stage
Smoke and mirrors
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Vaccine mandates
Strictly come jabbing
Obituary


Colin Powell
A soldier in Washington

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Hydrocarbons
The energy shock
The first big scare of the green era reveals grave problems with the transition to clean energy

Wage growth
Cheques and imbalance
Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral?

The coronavirus
Covid-19’s rocky road
The world can see the end of the pandemic. Millions of lives depend on how it gets there

Internet regulation
Who should police the web?
The responsibility belongs with politicians, not private firms

Economies in Latin America
Building back best
After a bad decade and a miserable pandemic, the region’s economies have a chance to make progress

Letters

Letters to the editor
The London Stock Exchange, philanthropy, religion, urinating cows, Brazil, “like”
Briefing

Endemic covid-19
What lies ahead
The world will have to learn to live with covid-19. What will that future look like?

Asia


Techno-Utopianism
Seeing like a state
Political dynasties (1)
Duterte II: the sequel
Political dynasties (2)
Not horsing around
Sri Lanka
No more Mr Rice Guy
Banyan
Working-class hero
China


The zero-covid policy
Protracted war
Chaguan
How Xi’s China differs from Mao’s
United States


Medicine
Anatomy of a scandal
Climate policy
The keeper
Voters
Left march
Free speech
Money talks
Lexington
Dave Chappelle for gender realism
The Americas


Latin American economies
Post-pandemic pick up
Bello
Under the volcano
Middle East & Africa


Nuclear diplomacy
The final countdown
Iraq’s election
Vote first, fight later
Dubai expo
The far-fetched pavilions
Burkina Faso
The ghost of Thomas Sankara
South Africa’s Afrikaans press
Ja to change
Europe


Energy supplies
Uncomfortable truths
Scandal in Austria
Viennese walks
Eric Zemmour
France’s wannabe Trump
Charlemagne
Polexit versus “dirty remain”
Britain


Academic freedom
Two plus two make four
Defence strategy
Master and commander
Northern Ireland protocol
Back to the past
Public finances in Northern Ireland
All talk and no trouser
Demography
Spinster nation
Welsh politics
How red is my valley?
International


Online censorship
Walls of silence
Journalism in Russia
Speaking for the dead
Business


The energy business
Playing for time
Electricity grids
An undersea change
Health technology
Girls uninterrupted
Indian business
The longest layover
Bartleby
How to run better meetings
Schumpeter
Silicon Valley’s quiet reinventor
Finance & economics


Labour costs
The pandemic pay rise
Wages in Germany
Hard bargains
Kristalina Georgieva
The International Monetary Bank
Inflation in America
Rental resurgence
Financial crime
The shell games go on
Chinese bonds
Xi’s premium
Credit cards and censorship
Plastic policemen
Buttonwood
Passive aggressive
Free exchange
Instrumental research
Science & technology


Asteroids
An embassy to the Trojans
Planetary defence
Nudge, nudge
Position-specific isotope analysis
How to C where you are going
Evolution
Snakes alive!
Avoiding anaphylaxis
Fishing for allergens
Books & arts


Technology, business and society
The ascent of the machine
Spy fiction
Against the tide
Evolution
Creature comforts
Contemporary ballet
Dante andante
Johnson
Stress tests
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


American politics
The last frontier
Obituary


Obituary: A.Q. Khan
Bombmaker

The new order
World trade
SPECIAL REPORTS - OCT 9TH 2021
Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes
World trade
The new order of trade
Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes

Trade law
A fraying system
In global trade, power increasingly trumps rules

Precautionism
In search of resilience
The quest for resilience involves reaching for facts, friends and fortification

Labour rights
The urge to protect
How trade restrictions are being used as a tool to protect human rights

The environment
Making trade greener
When environmental protection turns into trade protection

The new rules
A changed world
International commerce needs firmer underpinnings

Previous report

After Angela
Germany
SPECIAL REPORTS - SEP 25TH 2021
Angela Merkel’s departure will leave a big hole in Germany—and much for her successor to do, says Tom Nuttall

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

London’s stockmarket
From Big Bang to a whimper
Britain’s stockmarket is fading away. It can be revived

Xi Jinping’s campaign
China’s new reality
China’s president will be defined by his campaign to tame capitalism

Japanese politics
Uninspired
Japan deserves better than an inoffensive prime minister

Sex and language
She who must not be named
Why “woman” seems to be the hardest word

Taxes in America
Ways and means
America will never have a European-style welfare state without a vat

The future of food
Working up an appetite
Consumers and governments should embrace new ways to make food

Letters

Letters
On the World Bank, housing, supply chains, expats, Islamic sites, the book index
Briefing

The City of London
Britain’s sluggish stockmarket
Why London is no longer the world’s bourse

The world’s stockmarkets
Who’s up, who’s down?
The decline of Britain’s stockmarket should be seen in a broader historical context

Asia


Afghan politics
A delicate balance
Diplomacy
Mission control
Japanese politics
Sub-prime minister
Belt and Road
Laosy bets
Banyan
A raid against dissent
China


Political struggles
The people’s dictator
Chaguan
When China wants to be feared
United States


The Democrats’ tax plans
From whatever source derived
Elections
Still stopping the steal
Forgetting Haiti
The rest is history
SCOTUS
Term time
Rikers Island
Aggravated robbery
Gentrifying prisons
Fulsome
Lexington
Green on brown
The Americas


Brazil
A conservative crack-up
Brazil’s submarines
Underwater atoms
Bello
Between hope and fear
Middle East & Africa


Tunisia
Fiddling while Carthage burns
Libya
One Qaddafi wasn’t enough
Pension funds
Building bridges
South Africa
When the ANC withers
Europe


Germany’s election
Advantage Scholz
The eastern Mediterranean
Paris Philhellenic
Russia
Putin in hiding
Covid-19 and labour markets
Roam work
Charlemagne
A very European election
Britain


The fuel crisis
Running on empty
Housing
Change of plan
Therapy
Breaking through
Studying classics
Bearing gifts
Labour markets
He-cession
Regional policy
The Manchester two-step
Bagehot
A blustery week
International


Conscription
Call on me
Award
Technology Quarterly


Future food
The new Anthropocene diet
Plant-based meat and dairy
Mooving on
Lab-grown meat
Cell-side markets
Precision fermentation
Culture club
Urban farming
Green castles in the sky
Overlooked foods
Features and bugs
Business


Ford and General Motors
Electric Motor City
Supply chains
Out of the groove
Stockmarket listings in America
A key moment in capitalism
Bartleby
Better not squash
Schumpeter
How bosses should write books
Finance & economics


China jitters (1)
The property complex
China jitters (2)
The political premium
Xi’s electric
The latest shock to China’s economy: power shortages
Property in the rich world
Home truths
The Federal Reserve
Setting rates and trading them, too
Buttonwood
Supermayhem
Free exchange
Black cat, white cat, fat cat, thin cat
Award
Science & technology


Aquaculture
Seaweed at scale
Sequencing genetic material
A hole in one?
Palaeontology
Crimes of passion
Books & arts


Picturing God
With his outstretched arm
The second world war
Graveyard of empires
The end of cash
Kill bills
Johnson
Standing up for standard
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Agricultural emissions
The beef with beef
Obituary


George Holliday
The man on the balcony

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Germany
The mess Merkel leaves behind
As a much-admired chancellor bows out, her successor will face big unresolved problems

America in Asia
Resurfacing
America is at last acting to counter China in Asia. But strengthening military ties is just the start

Energy shortages
Gas puzzlers
The first energy squeeze of the green era has important lessons for governments

The Evergrande crisis
Bail-outs and bedlam
Can “common prosperity” lead to financial stability in China?

Multilateral institutions and China
Why Georgieva should go
A scandal over data and China has undermined the credibility of the IMF’s boss

Letters

Letters to the editor
On war, Joe Biden, Pakistan, abortion, social media, Aristotle, The global normalcy index, Rembrandt, holidays
Briefing

The new geopolitics of Asia
Enter AUKUS
A major submarine deal underscores how the new theatre for great-power competition is maritime, playing out across the Indo-Pacific

Asia


Democracy in Japan
Going round in circles
Love hotels in India
In and out
The Philippines’ drug war
Duterte harried
Press freedom in South Korea
Off-target
Banyan
Bamboo-shoots of resistance
China


Chinese-language media
Black, white and red all over
Climate-change policy
Low-hanging fruit
Chaguan
How AUKUS is viewed from Beijing
United States


Housing
Build, baby, build
Booster jabs
Ahead of the science
Covid-19 in schools
Safety in numbers
Academic freedom
Free now to speak
Policing
The Floyd effect
Mississippi’s last abortion clinic
Legal and rare
Lexington
Chuck’s modest leadership
Middle East & Africa


Inequality in South Africa
Not so black and white
Nigeria
Sum of a preacher man
Algeria
Bye-bye, Bouteflika
Lebanon’s energy crisis
Power politics
The Americas


Canada
A pointless election
Salmon farming
Fishing for compliments
Pre-Columbian exploration
Medieval mapping
Bello
The pen versus the paramilitaries
Europe


Germany’s election
The hunt for the Merkel middle
Germany
A dash of yellow
Russia’s election
The conjuror in the Kremlin
The Church of Sweden
Chosen ones
Charlemagne
The great sub snub
Britain


Energy prices
Flaring up
Class
Baron net
Reviving Labour
North-south divide
Gender medicine
Kicking it back downstairs
Liberal Democrats
Yellow Tories
Hong Kongers
The YouTube migrants
Bagehot
Dirty politics
International


Influenza
Northern exposure
Special report


Germany
After Merkel
Public investment
An infrastructure hole
The car industry
A troubled road lies ahead
The demographic challenge
Desperately seeking people
The European Union
Missing Angela already
Merkelkinder
The young’s attitudes
Foreign and security policy
More assertiveness wanted
The future
Reforms, reforms
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Chipmaking
Neutral but not idle
American retail
Two new shocks for shopping
Enterprise in Germany
Berlin Inc
Universal Music Group
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Business etiquette
New civility
Technology in Japan
Do me a solid
Bartleby
Stake claims
Schumpeter
The Midas of Mordor
Finance & economics


China’s property woes
The folly of Evergrande
Natural gas
Boiling over
Transpacific trade
Wiping America’s eye
Buttonwood
Just add crypto
Investing in property
The new rent-seekers
Rich-world corporate debt
A mountain but not a volcano
Free exchange
Rules of engagement
Science & technology


The future of warfare
Through a shimmering looking glass
Footprints in the muds of time
An old lake bed reveals evidence of America’s first inhabitants
The evolution of fruit
Finding the right customer
The comforts of religion
Faith and fatalism
Books & arts


Reason and its discontents
Faulty logic
The history of London
What lies beneath
Justice on screen
Supposing they’re wrong?
Dystopian fiction
Life, the universe and everything
Contemporary art
The man behind the curtain
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


History and genetics
To the ends of the Earth
Obituary


Clive Sinclair
Invent or bust

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The future of money
Down the rabbit hole
The promise and perils of decentralised finance

Vaccine mandates
Needling
State pressure has a role in public health. Covid-19 jabs are no exception

Capitalism in America
A dynamic do-over
Rumours of the demise of American enterprise are exaggerated

Child labour
How to stop children working
Treat the causes, not the symptom

World trade
Why skippers aren’t scuppered
Global supply chains are adapting, not failing

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the rise of illiberalism
Briefing

Decentralised finance
Adventures in DeFi-land
Can “DeFi” lay the foundations for a decentralised economy?

Blockchains
Building consensus
A blockchain is an immutable shared history

Asia


Gender and politics
Name dropping
Afghanistan
Highway 1 revisited
Education in India
Remotely learning
The Korean peninsula
Testing times
Banyan
The sum of its parts
China


Using the law
Courting influence
Evergrande
Rising damp
Chaguan
The party’s model emperor
United States


Reducing poverty
When policy works
Vaccinations
Biden’s bidding
Salt Lake City
Not your father’s Utah
Religious objections
Bodies and temples
Schools
Robot masters
The army
XX-rated
Lexington
Beware false doctrines
The Americas


Argentina
Front to back
Agriculture in Mexico
Reaping the rewards of trade
Bello
The monster hiding in the suburbs
Middle East & Africa


Diplomacy in the Middle East
Less battle, more banter
Teaching Arabic to Arabs
No book at bedtime
Islamism
Out of power
Aid and graft
Card declined
Child labour
All work and no play
Europe


Germany’s economy
Spinning the wheels
Germany’s left-wingers
The spectre of the ex-Communists
French covid-19 passports
Le nudge
Russia’s elections
The voters are getting smarter
Edible insects
A bug’s life
Charlemagne
The Dull Man theory of history
Britain


The Labour Party
Après le déluge, moi
Covid-19
Living with it
Regeneration
Levelling up, and up
Medicine
Dr WFH
British entrepreneurs
The lion and the unicorn
Attitudes to immigration
Bending point
Vehicle taxes
Heading towards gridlock
Bagehot
Rebooting Johnsonism
International


Philanthropy
Shifting foundations
Business


American business
Bring out the vim-o-meter
Big tech and antitrust
An unEpic victory
South Korean business
The other techlash
Supply chains
Marginal revolution
Bartleby
End of the travelling circus
Schumpeter
Who will be next?
Finance & economics


Container shipping
Perfect storm
Inflation
Fighting trim
China’s growth (1)
Lion dance
Buttonwood
The SEC’s modest mission
China’s growth (2)
The Thales of economics
Income inequality
Pie in the sky
Free exchange
Nanny state
Science & technology


Orbital debris
Seeking bolts from the blue
Space tourism
Lights, camera, lift-off
Zoonotic diseases
All the better to infect you with
Farming and the climate
How to toilet train your cow
Capturing carbon
Sucking money from thin air
Books & arts


Memory and the Holocaust
The ravine
Friendship, fiction and philosophy
Her brilliant friend
Johnson
Hitting the like button
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 vaccines
As good as advertised
Obituary


Mikis Theodorakis
Soul music

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Twenty years after 9/11
America then and now
The superpower is in danger of swinging from hubris to muddle

Sex and geopolitics
Why nations that fail women fail
And why foreign policy should pay more heed to half of humanity

Britain’s care reform
Age and enlightenment
Boris Johnson is right to spend more on health and social care, but he is paying for it the wrong way

Abortion in America
Courting trouble
Texas’s bounty-hunting abortion law sets a troubling precedent

El Salvador
New ideas, old tricks
Ignore the bitcoin tech-bro hype. Nayib Bukele is an old-fashioned caudillo

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Turkey and the EU, Afghanistan, Kazakhstanis, executives, dudes
Briefing

American foreign policy
Uncontained
How America wasted its unipolar moment

Asia


The covid-19 pandemic
The shoe drops
Tackling covid-19
Face: the facts
Funeral rites
Hell-care providers
Afghanistan
Empty clinics, hungry lions
Japanese politics
September surprise
Banyan
The shadow caste casts
China


Digital regulation
Codified crackdown
Maoist nostalgia
Talkin’ ‘bout a revolution
Chaguan
For the few, not the many
United States


Cities
Renaissance town
Abortion rights
Roads back to Roe
Covid-19
Not moving the needle
Opioids
Released
Religion
Nuns and nones
California
Imperfect recall
Lexington
Muslims on top
Middle East & Africa


Guinea
Another one bites the dust
Religion
The other Zionism
Nigeria
Mega-country, micro-pensions
Iran’s new government
Not management material
Qatar and Afghanistan
The Taliban-whisperers
The Americas


Protests in Brazil
A populist pushes back
Women’s rights
Judges for choice
El Salvador
Crypto creep
Europe


Germany’s place in the world
Still searching
Germany
Gloom and grumbling
The future of Spain
Grappling with a Rubik’s cube
Charlemagne
The EU Zodiac
Britain


Paying for the pandemic
Spend with care
Architecture
Streets and bricks
Protest
Grey radicals
Britain’s film industry
Lights, camera, tax breaks
Political scandal
Sleazy does it
Religion
Go forth and multiply more
Bagehot
North of the Tyne is mine
International


Sex and society
The cost of oppressing women
Business


Intel
Gelsinger’s opening gambit
Big oil in Iraq
Baghdad pay dirt
Television
Cable ties
DAX redux
Germany’s DAX blue-chip stockmarket index gets an update
Retailing
The direct approach
Bartleby
Suits v sweatpants
Schumpeter
Illumina and the holy GRAIL
Finance & economics


Covid-19 and cities
The cracked egg
Commodities
Higher still
Capital markets in China
Home comforts
Private equity
Raiding the stakes
The global policy cycle
High-wire act
Buttonwood
Habitat destruction
Free exchange
How the YIMBYs can win
Science & technology


The other pandemic
A new hope
Covid-19 experiments
A calculated risk
Climate change and evolution
My, what a big beak you have
Genetics and extinction
Two close shaves
Ocean reefs
Hybrid vigour
Books & arts


America in the 21st century
The home front
Industrious revolutionaries
Tectonic plates
Antiquities and the law
Unburied treasure
Irish fiction
The trouble with normality
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Sport psychology
All too human
Obituary


Jean “Binta” Breeze
Hearing the voices

SEP 4TH 2021
The threat from the illiberal left

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Political thought
The threat from the illiberal left
Don’t underestimate the danger of left-leaning identity politics

Afghanistan
Do not move on, move forwards
America should engage with the Taliban, very cautiously

The world economy
Delta means change
How the pandemic became stagflationary

Defaults in China
China’s toxic twins
The antics of two giant firms show that China’s debt markets are still rudimentary

Famine
Why Madagascar is going hungry
Blame covid-19, climate change and bad governance

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Afghanistan, vaccinations, chewing-gum, Berlin, corporate jargon
Briefing

The illiberal left
Out of the academy
How did a loose set of radical ideas leap from campus to American life?

Imposing orthodoxy
Echoes of the confessional state
Old tactics are being revived in a new assault on liberalism

Asia


Afghanistan
After the airlift
Media in Afghanistan
Cutting Kabul’s cable
Prostitution in Indonesia
Perverse outcomes
Higher education in Singapore
Lessons learnt
Banyan
The missing warrior
China


Property
Red lines, grey rhinos and big mountains
Coal projects
Squeezing out the carbon
Chaguan
Xi Jinping Thought for children
United States


The White House
Polling realpolitik
The Supreme Court
Roe on the ropes
Closing the 9/11 era
Wauthorisation
Dim the lights
Star power
Philanthropy
The woking class
Lexington
Through a glass darkly
The Americas


Venezuelan talks
Machiavellian manoeuvres
Canada’s election
A cuddlier kind of Conservatism
Middle East & Africa


Madagascar
Hunger island
Nigeria’s accidental public servant
Reform, and its malcontents
Israel’s foreign policy
Manage the conflict
The Middle East’s heritage
Bulldozing history
Europe


Russia
Get them while they’re young
Germany’s election
It’s complicated
Germany
A tale of two pubs
Georgia
Too many boys
Poland and Belarus
Stranded in no-man’s-land
Charlemagne
Après Afghanistan
Britain


Britain’s economy
Out of stock
Trade after Brexit
Tied up in knots
Online privacy after Brexit
GBPR
Learning loss
Back to basics
Scottish politics
Going nowhere
Health care
Spin doctors
Bagehot
Not up to it
International


Conspiracy theories
It’s all connected, man
Business


The future of meetings
Update your calendar
Information technology
The Oracle of AI
Rivian
Can it deliver?
Video gaming
Game over
Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
Theatre of blood
Bartleby
‘Twas ever thus
Schumpeter
Epic’s battle royale
Finance & economics


Vietnam’s growth model
The special sauce
Labour shortages
Help wanted
Bitcoin as legal tender
Satoshis for cervezas
Climate risk
Hot take
Buttonwood
Profit and dross
Free exchange
All tied up
We're hiring
Wanted: a new economics writer
Schools brief


Finding living planets
Worlds enough, and time
Science & technology


AI for vehicles
Is it smarter than a seven-month-old?
Evolution
Cross-dressing hummingbirds
Scientific errors
Autoincorrect
Books & arts


Cuban history
An American tragedy
Liberalism and the truth
The faculty of useful knowledge
Johnson
He, she, hizzer
Israeli fiction
The long road back
The history of books
Keys to all knowledge
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Environmental regulation
We were expecting you
Obituary


Gino Strada
Blood and roses

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Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

America and the world
Biden’s debacle
The fiasco in Afghanistan is a huge and unnecessary blow to America’s standing

Biosafety
No more leaks
Covid-19 may or may not have leaked from a lab. Either way, biosafety needs tightening

Central banks
Bringing clarity to QE
Central banks should make clear what their balance-sheets are for, and then shrink them

Shopping in America
Retail revival
How American retailers have adapted to the Amazon effect

The American West
Megadry
Americans are moving to a region suffering from a 22-year drought. Pricing water properly would help

Letters

Letters to the editor
On monkey experiments, Singapore, meritocracy, demonyms, science, dance floor bankers
Briefing

The fall of Kabul
The Taliban are back in town
Their astonishingly quick victory marks a geopolitical turning-point. What will be the consequences of America’s humiliation?

Asia


Democracy in Indonesia
Jokowho?
Malaysian politics
Sheraton removed
Japan’s seasonal confectionery
The darling buds of Nestlé
Human rights in Bangladesh
They just disappeared
Banyan
Tea time in the Great Game
China


Trade unions
Teaching them a lesson
The Belt and Road Initiative
Hook, line and sinker?
Chaguan
Preparing to work with the Taliban
United States


The West
Low and dry
Libel law
Malice afterthought
Animal welfare
The bacon crunch
The census
Omni-Americans
Guantánamo
No easy escape
Lexington
Remnants of a policy
Middle East & Africa


Africa and the rich world
Heading towards a dilemma
Zambia
Sixth time lucky
Iraq
Caliph hanger
Israel and covid-19
A wave of criticism
The Americas


Haiti
The wretched of the earthquake
Canada
Sonny ways
Europe


Fighting fraud
Enter the cleaner
German-Russian relations
From “flawless” to lawless
Catania
The would-be Milan of the south
Sink or swim
Rusty relic of the Habsburg navy
Charlemagne
The EU: 1713 edition
Britain


Covid-19
Ready for the next one?
Nauseous nurseries
Oh noro!
Demography
Teenage kicks
Energy politics
Slippery
Afghanistan
Left behind
Bagehot
The sun also sets
International


The origins of covid-19
Putting it all together
Business


The business of decarbonisation
Climate tech’s Netscape moment
Low-cost airlines
Long-haul sally
Bartleby
Nearly out of office
China Inc abroad
SEA change
Online weddings
Updating vows
Schumpeter
Primark’s slow fashionistas
Finance & economics


China’s economy
Delta neutral
Emerging markets
Feeling the heat
The dog days of summer
American consumers become warier
Neobanks
New tricks
Buttonwood
Jacks are all traders
Free exchange
Assume the positional
Schools brief


The story of a life
A dance to the music of time
Science & technology


Three-dimensional printing and construction
Factory fresh
Electric cars
Pump up the voltage!
Prosthetics
A new prosthetic hand
Books & arts


Dante’s legacy
The way through the wood
A heroine of the resistance
Together in Berlin
Contagion and authoritarianism
Moscow rules
Wildfires
Down in flames
Johnson
What do they know, and when?
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 vaccines
The Delta delta
Obituary


Jane Withers
America’s favourite problem child

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Industrial policy
China’s attack on tech
Xi Jinping’s assault on his country’s tech titans is likely to prove self-defeating

The war in Afghanistan
Last chance
America might still be able to save the Afghan government if it tried

Covid-19 and borders
Open up
International travel restrictions are illiberal and often ineffective

Climate change
It is not all about the carbon
Carbon dioxide is by far the most important driver of climate change. But methane matters, too

Germany
After Merkel, muddle
Voters deserve a more serious election campaign

Letters

Letters to the editor
On risk and vaccines, science fiction, climate change, lending, beer, rainfall
Briefing

China’s growth prospects
Automatic for the people
China’s future economic potential hinges on its productivity. Can the government boost it?

Asia


The return of the Taliban
There goes the neighbourhood
The mood in Kabul
Pro-God, anti-Taliban
Indonesia’s favourite game
A pretty good racquet
South Korea’s power players
The ties that bind
Banyan
Autocratic for the people
China


Proletarian culture
Production-line poets
United States


Congress
Function in Washington
Andrew Cuomo
Oye, Cuomo va
Finding abused children
Hashing ambiguous
Texas and covid-19
Getting schooled
Compulsory vaccination
Spreading
Lexington
Green and black
Middle East & Africa


Cabo Delgado
Rwanda’s new fight
Ghana’s oil buy-back
Crude business
Niger’s cry for help
Jihadists on all sides
Nigeria
Crime and government
Democratic immunity
Of coups and covid jabs
The Americas


Race in Brazil
One city, two worlds
Cuba
A small step away from socialism
Europe


Germany’s election
Jamaica, traffic-light or black and green?
French rhetorical hysteria
1789 and all that
Free media in Poland
Unwelcome Discovery
Italy’s coast
The megayachts are back
Covid in Bulgaria
Bottom of the heap
The Balkans
Knocking on the 27’s door
Charlemagne
A tale of two flights
Britain


The legal system
In trouble with the law
Public spaces
Parks and recriminations
Universities
Seeing stars
Infrastructure
The wrong track
International trade
Brexit dividend
Long-term damage
Not too gruesome
Driving politics
The petrol party
International


Covid-19 and travel
Getting off the ground
Business


Chinese capitalism
What tech does Xi want?
Biotechnology
Just what the doctor ordered
Bartleby
Get flexible or get going
The Olympics and advertising
Loser takes all
Entrepreneurship
Wiping the slate
Schumpeter
Joan of Instacart
Finance & economics


Job markets
Coming up short
Inflation in America
Beatable prices
Foreign investors and India
Bygones are bygones
Capital markets in Europe
SPACs and the City
Buttonwood
Cease and delist
South-East Asia
A quiet giant
Free exchange
The fundamentals of finance
Schools brief


Making organs
Leaves, limbs and lights
Science & technology


Climate change
A new reality
Solar geoengineering
It that cannot be named
Books & arts


“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
Buy the ticket, take the ride
Art and the Nazis
The mind’s eye
Women in sport
Championship points
Psychological fiction
The devil inside
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Football
Simply the best
Obituary


Graham Vick
Puccini with lunch-trays

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Open-source intelligence
The people’s panopticon
Open-source intelligence is a welcome threat to malefactors and governments with something to hide

Chipmaking
A self-solving problem
Markets, not nationalism and subsidies, are the cure for the chip shortage

Democracy in Africa
Zambia’s crucial election
Hakainde Hichilema deserves to be elected, but the world should prepare for a rigged vote

Regulating cryptocurrencies
Unstablecoins
Why regulators should treat some cryptocurrencies like banks

Developing vaccines
Vaxelerando
Scientists responded rapidly to the pandemic. Next time they could be even faster

Letters

Letters to the editor
On life sentences, Syria, germs, eggcorns
Briefing

Open-source intelligence
Trainspotting, with nukes
Academics, activists and passionate amateurs are making use of intelligence capabilities once reserved for superpowers

Asia


Climate change
Moving story
Human-animal conflict
Snakes in the city
The Tokyo Olympics
That 2021 feeling
Covid-19 in Myanmar
The second horseman
Banyan
Flagging enthusiasm
China


Xinjiang’s economy
Controlled growth
United States


Homelessness
Gimme shelter
A political litmus test in Ohio
The party of Biden
Andrew Cuomo
Fall from grace
Ghost guns
Taking aim at phantom firearms
Lexington
The great American carnival
The Americas


Bolivia’s woes
Fraud, coup or prologue?
The legacy of immigration
You say pirozhki, I say empanada
Middle East & Africa


Lebanon
Into the abyss
Iran
Off to an interesting start
Elections in Zambia
Victory by default
Abandoned refugees
Rationed out
Europe


Spain’s economy
A doleful plight
Belarus
Forget the border
Turkey
Up in smoke
Chechnya
The wolf’s return
Charlemagne
The black-cod theory of integration
Britain


Britain’s boat people
Get back to where you once belonged
Olympic funding
Fortune and glory
Crime in the countryside
Crops and robbers
The labour market
Farewell to furlough
Scotland
Guid money after bad
Bagehot
The great reversal
International


The UN’s refugee convention at 70
Well-founded fears
Business


Semiconductors
Veni, Nvidia, Vici
Carmakers and semiconductors
Pinned by chips
European industry
A green and level field
Bartleby
The new monarchs
Schumpeter
India’s other A-lister
Finance & economics


A crypto stress test
The disaster scenario
Policing crypto
Here comes the sheriff
Perishable e-money
Temporary income hypothesis
China’s capital markets
Evergrave
Free exchange
Something ventured
Schools brief


Cells and how to run them
Layers of power
Science & technology


Combating future viruses
Predict and survive
A non-binary burial
Antiquated thinking
Ancient geometry
No need for a protractor
Automatic goods handling
Heave-ho!
Books & arts


Sport
The pursuit of greatness
The Berlin Wall
An underground operation
Horological history
A matter of time
Johnson
The terms that bind
Elif Shafak’s new novel
Star-crossed lovers
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Tackling climate change
Green goals
Obituary


Frenchy Cannoli
The weed of paradise

The world this week

Business this week
Politics this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The global economy
Dashed hopes
Unrest and economic underperformance stalk the emerging world. The key to better times remains openness

China’s tech-bashing
Get poor quickly
China’s crackdown on the online-education business marks a turning-point

Tunisia
Relighting a beacon of democracy
The way out of Tunisia’s crisis

Biological origami
Proteinotopia
Remarkable progress in understanding the folding of proteins will help open up almost limitless vistas

The Philippines
How not to deal with China
Rodrigo Duterte’s China policy has shown the folly of appeasement

Letters

Letters to the editor
On China, Eswatini, climate change, Afghanistan, the Olympics
Briefing

20 years of BRICs
A mixed-up slowdown
The prospects for developing countries are not what they were

Asia


Race relations in Singapore
Imperfect harmony
South Korea’s cultural exports
Striding the universe
Politics in the Philippines
Preparing for posterity
Samoa’s new government
Slow ride to FAST rule
Banyan
Seven-headed scandal
China


Nuclear weapons
Xi’s shells?
Hong Kong’s national-security law
Tough justice
Chaguan
The politics of floods
United States


The unvaccinated
Beyond the pandemic blame game
Attitudes to the vaccine
Hesitancy in numbers
The infrastructure bill
It’s a deal
American forces in the Middle East
Eyeing the exits
Cocktails-to-go
Fancy a Fauci Pouchy?
Lexington
Insurrection revisionism
The Americas


Peru
A gallop into the unknown
Argentina
Gender-setters
Continental defence
Eyes in the ice
Middle East & Africa


Tunisia
Arab democracy’s fading star
Jordan
Being boring has its advantages
Israel
Letting Pegasus fly
Nigeria’s cuisine
Locust beans are back
War in Tigray
Down from the mountains
Europe


The south of France
California dreaming
Albania
Unimpeded flows the Vjosa
Dry bars of Ireland
Filling in the craics
Afghans in Turkey
Point of no return
Charlemagne
Meet the proverbial voters
Britain


Northern Ireland’s segregated schools
Pick and mix
Catholic culture
Loose and lacy
Cricket
Bowl fast and break things
Trade
Doing a disservice
Covid-19
Taking liberties
London’s flooding
Live by the river
Bagehot
The new normal
International


Protests and covid-19
It’s catching
Business


Bartleby
Jargon abhors a vacuum
Big tech
Faceworld
Big agriculture
Field day
Chinese capitalism
Marxism v markets
Finance & economics


Retail investing
Robinhood and the merry mob
Fossil fuels
Fired up
Inflation in Turkey
Pick a number
Plumbing the depths
Real bond yields fall
Bankruptcy in China
Sympathy for the debtor
Nigerian fintech
Out of the slump
Buttonwood
Pulling tight
Free exchange
Establishing the cause of death
Schools brief


Proteins and nucleic acids
Chains and reactions
Science & technology


Aircraft engines
Back to prop swinging
How science works
Methods and madness
Screening for disease
The nose knows
Books & arts


Creativity and identity
A sculptor’s world
Leïla Slimani’s new novel
Land and freedom
China’s grand strategy
Seeking world domination
The Congo-Océan Railway
Blood on the tracks
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Infrastructure
Old town road
Obituary


Steven Weinberg
Nature’s laws

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Climate change
No safe place
The extremes of flood and fire are not going away, but adaptation can lessen their impact

The growth scare
Delta’s beta
The Delta variant is the biggest of several risks to America’s economy

Saving South Africa
End of the road for ANCnomics
Two decades of corruption and misgovernment are the real cause of the crisis

Tax in America
Internal affairs
Fund the IRS properly. But also make taxes simpler

Scientific ethics
Brainstorming
Liberal democracies should not cede ethically troubling neuroscience to China

Letters

Letters to the editor
On lockdowns, Ethel Rosenberg, public relations, economics, seaweed, translating, space flight
Briefing

The three-degree world
Burning down the house
Even if greenhouse-gas emissions are slashed, there is still a chance of crashing through the Paris agreement’s climate targets. What would that look like?

Asia


India’s economy
Chronic condition
Corruption in Kazakhstan
Get jabbed? Get stuffed!
Covid-19 in Australia
Lock me down at your peril
Myanmar’s opposition
Government of national disunity
Banyan
The changing face of Japan
China


Academic freedom in Hong Kong
Unhallowed halls
Floods in Henan
A deluge in China has killed more than 30 and caused terror
Surfing
Mother ocean
United States


Housing
Boombust
Chinese cyber-attacks
Ctrl-alt-denounce
The IRS
Seeking revenue
Texas’s new abortion law
Lubbock or leave it
Lexington
The rise of Ron DeSantis
Middle East & Africa


Amid the rubble
The shaming of South Africa
Syria’s economy
Narco-state on the Med
Water
Dry and disorderly
The Americas


Trying to get ahead
The squeezed middle
Brazil’s brain drain
Out the door
Canada’s drug laws
High stakes
Europe


Germany
After the floods
French labour shortages
A la carte
Poland
The return of the Donald
Crime in Sweden
Guns galore
Charlemagne
Minority rights and wrongs
Britain


Covid-19
Fighting for their right to party
Schools and covid-19
Summer blues
Roads and the environment
Going to seed
Betting their shirts
How Premier League shirt sponsors have changed
The Labour Party
Starmerist Regime
Ornonomics
Doveish policy
Bagehot
Boris at two
International


Primate research
Monkey business
Business


Netflix
Season 3, coming soon
The hydrogen business
Burning clean
Social media
LinkedOut
Bartleby
How to lead from afar
Technology
Unicornucopia
Schumpeter
War war v jaw jaw
Finance & economics


The uncertain economic recovery
Mixed messages
Stimulus programmes
Peering down the cliff-edge
The Delta effect
Hemmed in
Climate resilience
Overlooked no more
Buttonwood
A tiger’s tale
The Big Mac index
The happiest meal
Free exchange
War and peace
Science & technology


Renewable energy
Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights
Air conditioning
Cool ideas
Gold, fool’s and real
Interior decorations
Billionaire astronauts
Jeffrey Bezos goes into space
Books & arts


The history of work
What a way to make a living
Sex and censorship
Uneasy virtue
A Baltic travelogue
The wrong side of history
Journalism in Africa
Open letters
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Vaccine hesitancy
Two roads diverged
Obituary


Yang Huaiding
Eating the crab

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
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America and China
Biden’s new China doctrine
Its protectionism and its us-or-them rhetoric will hurt America and put off allies

Cuba
The mask slips
The best way to help Cuba’s protesters is to lift the American embargo

South Africa
Rule of lawlessness
The worst unrest since apartheid underlines South Africa’s fragility

Climate change
Carbon and capture
In principle carbon border taxes are a good idea. In practice they could be a gift to protectionists

Doping in sport
A cloud of suspicion
As athletes arrive in Tokyo for the Olympics, doping is still common. The system needs reform

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Sweden, abortion, gun rights, state pensions, Belgium
Briefing

America’s China policy
Pushing back
Joe Biden is determined that China should not displace America

Asia


The Tokyo Olympics
Rings on the ropes
Making the Olympics safe again
No fun and games
Banyan
Rajapaksa raj
The pandemic in South-East Asia
The next covid catastrophe
China


Independent publishing
The small print
Gay rights
Patriotism and prejudice
Chaguan
Turning inward
United States


Infrastructure year
Joe Biden’s mystery train
Lone-Star politics
Texodus
Drug prices
Blowing the inheritance
Baseball’s waning popularity
Pastime
Competition
Anti-trust in me
Lexington
The anti-vax delusion
Middle East & Africa


South Africa
Jacob’s looters
Sudan
Unlikely bedfellows
Al-Fashaga
The most dangerous place in the Horn
Jordan
Courting trouble
Israel and China
The enemy of my friend
The Americas


Cuba
A revolt against the revolution
Haiti’s crisis
Après Moïse, le déluge?
Bello
A Mexican show trial?
Europe


Germany
Auf Wiedersehen, Amerika!
Moldova
An anti-corruption party triumphs
Viticulture
The grapes are off
Greece
Electric island
Charlemagne
A less than jolly green giant
Britain


House-building
Blot on the landscape
The new NIMBYs
Eco-warriors
Foreign aid
The final cut
Climate costs
Pain now, gain later
Northern Ireland
Closure denied
Road haulage
Driving: a hard bargain
Heritage
Red in tooth and claw
International


America, China and the Moon
The eagle and the rabbit
Business


China Inc abroad
Inconspicuous expansion
Space tourism
The finite frontier
Staffing firms
Work in progress
Big law
White shoes are made for earnin’
Bartleby
Different pitches
Schumpeter
Superpower surge
Finance & economics


Fintech
The funding frenzy
Wall Street
Fat and happy
The European Central Bank
Promises, promises
Inflation in America and Britain
Sticker shock
Welfare and work
Make it pay
The IMF
Every little helps
Buttonwood
Margin call
Free exchange
At the coalface of climate policy
Science & technology


Sport and drugs
Still doped up?
Sports equipment
Getting a leg up
Books & arts


Communism in China
Party on
Deep seas
Beyond blue
Johnson
Death nails and foul swoops
South African fiction
The family plot
Odd couples
The love song of J. Maynard Keynes
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Long covid
Fitbit for purpose
Obituary


Esther Bejarano
Songs against hate