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The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The rise of e-money
The digital currencies that matter
Government-run virtual currencies are coming. They are a giant risk that is worth taking

Gun laws in America
Bearing harms
Permitless-carry gun laws are misguided and should be scrapped

Warren Buffett
Time’s up
The Oracle of Omaha should look to the future and step aside at Berkshire Hathaway

Somaliland
A state of one’s own
After 30 years of running itself, Somaliland deserves international recognition

German law and climate policy
The power of negative thinking
How to make long-term emissions pledges add up

Letters

Letters to the editor
On politics and business, Saudi Arabia, crowdsourcing, the draft, Singapore, football
Briefing

The creator economy
Serfing the web
Social-media platforms used to get most of their content for free. Now creators command a price, and online power is shifting

Asia


India’s second wave
Paper tiger
City administration in India
Urbs prima in Indis
Korean vibes
Let there be mood lighting
Charity in the Philippines
Reds under the veg
Development in Bangladesh
Thirst trap
Banyan
Closing argument
China


Propaganda
The new scold war
Plastic surgery
Nipping and tucking
Chaguan
Resistance is not futile
United States


Permitless-carry gun laws
The firearms free-for-all
Facebook and Donald Trump
Speechless
Renting v buying
The house wins
Waiting
Time and money
Tech trade policy
Assuming the position
Unsolved murders in St Louis
Crime without punishment
Lexington
A shad state of affairs
The Americas


El Salvador
Bukele’s bulldozer
A terrible accident in Mexico City
Mexico City’s metro
Protests in Colombia
Taxing times
Bello
Whose fish are they anyway?
Middle East & Africa


Somaliland
Out of the rubble, 30 years on
Cleaner cookery
Fire escape
Vaccine manufacturing in Africa
Home brewing
Qatar’s labour laws
Free to quit
The war in Yemen
Peace on hold
Arab elections
How despots pick their opponents
Europe


Spain
From rage to disillusion
Germany and climate
Red in robe, green in thought
Ireland and Brexit
Pluses and minuses
France and terrorism
Reform or relapse?
Turkey’s lockdown
Erdogan’s no-wine situation
Charlemagne
The anti-Orban
Britain


Sadiq v Boris
Why London’s bridge is falling down
Body parts
Water, water everywhere
Brexit
Fish fight with France
Discount retailing
The omnivore
Life sciences
A new recruit
Trains
The fat controller
International


Organised crime online
Spam, scam, scam, scam
Special report


The future of banking
Fewer—or even none?
Banks v big tech
Regime change
Debt v equity
Intangible capitalism
Low interest rates
Time is cheap
Public v private money
Going public
Monetary sovereignty
Hege-money
Money on my mind
A brave new world
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Berkshire Hathaway
Honky Tonk Warren
Bartleby
The human touch
Vaccine patents
A shot in the arm
Ageing consumers
The boomer boom
Epic Games v Apple
Battle royal
Schumpeter
Losing the mystique
Finance & economics


China’s digital money
The new yuan: a lot like the old yuan
Foreign banks in America
Farce and furious
Buttonwood
Red hot
Greece
Clean-up operation
Women and investing
Rich pickings
The economics of prisons
The parent trap
Free exchange
Escape from the city
Science & technology


Back-ups for GPS
Locking out the bad guys
An early burial
Human prehistory
Ecology
Roadkill stew
Biomarkers for depression
Unlucky 13
Civil engineering
How to knit a road
Books & arts


“The Brothers Karamazov” on stage
Sins of the fathers
Allusive fiction
Second is nowhere
Renaissance art
A world of wonders
Pandemics and other disasters
With a whimper
Johnson
Tongue-twisters
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Pollution and poverty
Why east has least
Obituary


Michael Collins
The third man

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Superpower politics
The most dangerous place on Earth
How to avoid war over the future of Taiwan

Long covid
And now for the aftershock
Evidence is mounting that long covid is a real threat to global health

America’s economy
Biden’s taxing problem
How to tax capital without hurting investment

Hungary
Viktor Orban’s university challenge
The ruling party seizes control of Hungary’s ivory towers

Hybrid diplomacy
The virtue of virtual
Diplomats have tried new tools during the pandemic. They should use them after it

Letters

Letters to the editor
On money-laundering, voting in Georgia, European TV, museums, Ebenezer Howard, simplifying
Briefing

China and Taiwan
Something wicked this way comes
America is increasingly concerned about the possibility of war in the Taiwan Strait. It has good reason

Asia


Japan’s foreign relations
Panda power
South Korea’s economy
Chips and blocks
Australia and covid-19
Isolation nation
Covid-19 in India
Heartening heroics
Banyan
A real tree-for-all
China


Demography
Is China’s population shrinking?
Analysing China
Doves become hawks
The movie business
Dissing Oscar
United States


Biden’s beginning
100 days of aptitude
SCOTUS and free speech
Sidelined
Classics at Howard
Finis
Escaping from the epidemic
Overproof
Lexington
In praise of the Mormon right
Middle East & Africa


Israel and Palestine
Past their sell-by date
Iraq
The enemy of my enemy
Crisis in Somalia
Villa-squatting
Africa’s unfinished buildings
A room without a roof
The Americas


AMLO’s military ambitions
Sergeant López Obrador
The pandemic in Venezuela
Thyme, the great healer
Bello
How will the covid-19 bill be paid?
Europe


Turkey and Armenia
Caucasian knot
Poland
The rule of Law and Justice
Religion in Spain
Empty pews, big pulpit
France and covid-19
Geeks v bureaucrats
Charlemagne
Shh! A silent centralisation
Britain


Upcoming elections
It’s all happening in Hartlepool
Sewage
Pond dipping
Scotland
Peely-wally
Scotland and England
Bordering on nervous
Northern Ireland
Foster falls
Salmon and Brexit
Fishy statistics
City jobs
Remainers
Bagehot
Domestic politics
International


Diplomacy disrupted
The Zoom where it happens
Business


Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Living on the edge
Digital advertising
Flying blind
The steel industry in India
White hot
Commercial property
Safe as warehouses
Wood products
Forest bump
Labour relations in Germany
The king of Wolfsburg
Bartleby
When the boss is behind you
Schumpeter
The magical realism of Tesla
Finance & economics


The economic recovery
Money, machines and mayhem
Taxing capital
Benchmarking Biden
Buttonwood
Up to speed
India’s economy
Lights, power, inaction
Labour shortages in America
Help wanted
The Turkish lira
Money for nothing
Free exchange
Building a boom
Science & technology


Post-covid syndrome
The sting in the tail
Books & arts


Fiction and politics in Turkey
Orhan Pamuk’s plagues
Women of the resistance
Righteous furies
Impressionistic fiction
Home, alone
Interspecies relations
Creature discomforts
The art of food
Making a meal of it
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Military spending
Buck for the bang
Obituary


LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
Black snake, sacred water

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Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
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Russia’s future
Putin’s next move
Russia’s president menaces his people and neighbours. The West should raise the cost of his malign behaviour

The pandemic in India
Covid catastrophe
India’s giant second wave is a disaster for it and the world

Germany’s election
September showdown
The battle to succeed Angela Merkel just got interesting

Bubbly Wall Street
The SPAC spectacle
Snatching sanity from the jaws of financial absurdity

Chad
The false promise of stability
The violent death of Idriss Déby has unsettled a region—and a Western policy of propping up strongmen

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the EU, Altamira, American English, methane, data, workers
Briefing

Putin’s Russia
Something is rotten
The Russian president is growing ever more repressive. That is largely because he is losing support

The Russian economy
Under siege
The Kremlin has isolated Russia’s economy, protecting it from shocks but choking growth

Asia


India’s surging outbreak
First as tragedy
Politics in India
The road show must go on
Pakistan’s religious extremists
A government held to ransom
Australian place names
Nominal interest
Kyrgyzstan’s referendum
Back to the khanate?
Banyan
Tug of war
China


Hacking China
Watching them watching you
Health care
Dangerous work
Hong Kong crackdown
The end of the road
Chaguan
Art attack
United States


Foreign policy under Joe Biden
Overload
Joe Biden’s climate summit
Promising the Earth
Derek Chauvin’s trial
Two degrees and reparation
Transgender treatments
Blocked
Walter Mondale dies aged 93
Reassessing a would-be president
Religion in America
Baptism by fire
Lexington
The Great Game
The Americas


Immigration to Canada
A wider welcome
Vaccine queue jumping
Kicking covid
Guatemala’s courts
Domino effect
Bello
After the myth, the grim facts
Middle East & Africa


Covid-19 in Africa
Doses of scepticism
Chad
The dictator dies
Stateless in Zimbabwe
Papers, please
Saudi Arabia
The prince’s big bet
Transport in Egypt
Daily disasters
Europe


Germany
Green on black
Finland’s universities
Mind the gap year
The EU and AI
The Brussels effect
Covid-19 and the Netherlands
Terraced grousing
Charlemagne
The Draghi delusion
Britain


Commercial law
Ruling the world
Darktrace
Out of the shadows
Museums
Empty halls
Mortgages
Regulator says no
Housing
When Generation Rent retires
Drug deaths in Scotland
In need of a fix
Bagehot
Football Tories
International


Women in war
Officers and gentlewomen
Business


The sports business
They think it’s all over
The energy transition
The gaseous mega-bet
Business software
The robots are coming
Bartleby
The new office etiquette
The future of carmaking
The non-motor show
Pharmaceuticals
Lab life
Schumpeter
Modi operandi
Finance & economics


Economic sanctions
Handle with care
Buttonwood
The art of war
Bad debt in China
Righting Huarong
Isaiah Andrews
Model behaviour
Emerging markets
The wave v the tantrum
Amundi
Alpha plus
Free exchange
Protection racket
Science & technology


Covid-19 and the Defence Production Act
A vaxxing problem
Coffee and climate change
Stimulated thinking
Evolutionary stasis
Gold bug
Cancer research
An inward observatory
Aeronautics on Mars
The Wright stuff
Books & arts


Kudos in the arts
And the winner is…who cares?
Peacekeeping
Local heroes
Schumpeter’s heirs
Innovate to accumulate
Johnson
Woof’s the word
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Suicides
Welcome reprieve
Obituary


Bernard Madoff
Just one big lie

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
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Future of the union
The Untied Kingdom
The bonds that hold the United Kingdom together are fraying. The government needs to try to mend them

Corporations and democracy
The political CEO
Business and politics are growing closer in America, with worrying consequences

Monetary policy in America
Be prepared
Inflation is rising. The Federal Reserve should be clearer about what comes next

Afghanistan
The final countdown
Joe Biden is wrong to pull troops out of Afghanistan

Biology and ethics
Softly, softly
The creation of part-human, part-monkey embryos will discomfit many, but research should be encouraged

Chaos in Myanmar
Asia’s next failed state
Myanmar will become a Burmese blaze unless its neighbours adopt a more constructive stance

Letters

Letters to the editor
On pulse oximeters, special drawing rights, Lord Salisbury, boycotts, religion, Harvard
Briefing

Scottish independence
The long road back to Europe
Many Scots see independence as the antidote to Brexit. It may be its mirror, too

Asia


Myanmar’s failing coup
Burmese blaze
Afghanistan
The end of forever
Mahua season in India
Botanical blessings
Banyan
Dropped connection
China


Covid-19 in Hong Kong
A patriotic jab, or one that works better?
Robbing graves
A dirty business
Chaguan
Misremembering Mao
United States


Free speech and social media
Rule of thumb
Police technology
Eyes in the sky
Police accountability
George Floyd’s legacy
Vaccine hesitancy
Seen and not herd
State finances
The disaster that wasn’t
Safe drinking water
Good job, Newark
Lexington
Retreat from Kabul
The Americas


Guns in Brazil
Playing with firearms
St Vincent
The Soufrière volcano is creating chaos in St Vincent
Costa Rica
No longer top of the class
Bello
Either way, it’s bad news
Middle East & Africa


Israel, Iran and America
Explosive diplomacy
Hunger in the Arab world
Feast, fast and famine
Tunisia
The megaphone
West Africa’s sea cucumbers
Slug-like and precious
Ethiopia’s war economy
Blowing in the wind
Europe


German politics
A fracturing Union
Russia and Ukraine
On manoeuvres
Women in Italy
The big divide
Norwegian cuisine
Fish tongues, harvested by children
Charlemagne
A Calhounian moment
Britain


Northern Ireland
Unhappy anniversary
Business and government
Old ideas, new problems
Wales
Sleeping dragon
Town planning
Paved paradise
Shirley Williams
A lioness of liberalism
Bagehot
The dynasty factor
International


Foreign investment
India Inc
Business


The political company
From handshake to clenched fist
Personal transport
The future of getting from A to B
Bartleby
Stepping down is hard to do
Microsoft
Method in the madness
L’Oréal
Hieronimus boss
Schumpeter
SEA of opportunity
Finance & economics


Combating money-laundering
Losing the war
Inflation
Base jumping
China’s economy
The devil in the data series
Wall Street
Hand over fist
Buttonwood
A tourist’s guide
Free exchange
The common-sense economist
Science & technology


Experimental biology
Fantastic beasts and how to make them
Psychology
Less is often more
Photography
Liquid selfies
Superforecasting
Welcome to the Cosmic Bazaar
Books & arts


The cold war
A very close shave
American history
Band of sisters
New British fiction
The will to live
Contemporary art
Beyond the frame
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Football “curses”
What goes down must come up
Obituary


Prince Philip
Pledge of a lifetime

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Labour markets
Riding high
In the rich world the era of sharp-edged capitalism is giving way to a golden age for labour

Jordan
Battle royal
A feud between prince and king is but one of Jordan’s problems

America and climate change
At last, a serious effort
Two cheers for the president’s ambitious climate plan

House prices
Don’t stop me now
House prices are going ballistic. Policymakers need to keep their heads

Design bias
Working in the dark
The world is designed around white men. They share it with everyone else

Letters

Letters to the editor
On China, floating boats, Bangladesh, Dutch politics, regulations, England
Briefing

The Kurds
Down but not out
Thirty years after the creation of the first autonomous Kurdish territory, dreams of statehood have faded. But despite their setbacks the Kurds may yet thrive

Asia


Covid-19 in South Asia
Indian brink
Covid-19 in Bhutan
One-week wonder
The South China Sea
Reef madness
Haikus and climate/
As the seasons defy norms/
Politics in Thailand
Strength without numbers
Pakistan’s armed forces
If you can’t beat them, obey them
Banyan
Bubble trouble
China


Left-behind children
In grandpa’s charge
Chaguan
The Middle East quagmire
United States


The economic recovery
Charging ahead
Business and Georgia’s voting-rights law
Political baseball
Climate policy
A long and bumpy road ahead
Corporate taxes
Counting trillions
Women and the draft
Gender war
College admissions
No SATisfACTion
Urban gardening
The Green Apple
Housing in the West
Growing pains
Middle East & Africa


Jordan
Family feud
Getting into Iraq
The doors are opening
Egyptian entertainment
Only good cops, please
Kenyan coffee
They’ve woken up and smelt it
Education in Africa
Covid-19 spurs catch-up classes
Benin and Chad
Getting too much alike, alas
The Americas


Communist pharma
Revolutionary drugs
Bello
The strains in a politicised army
Mexico’s economy
A tight-fisted socialist
Europe


Europe’s public broadcasters
The people’s voice
Russia
House of the dead
Bulgaria’s election
Bye-bye Boyko?
Spain
Yes, Basques are different
Charlemagne
Thinking the unthinkable
Britain


Covid-19
Opening shots
Pubs
Raising the bar
Regional mayors
Men about town
Commercial banking
Par for the course
Northern Ireland
Brexit spills onto the streets
Higher education
Smart moves
Bagehot
The power of perkiness
International


Working online
Virtual insanity
Special report


The future of work
Labour gains
The shock
Crash landing
Essential workers
The truly disadvantaged
Working from home
From desktop to laptop
Automation
Boy cries wolf
Government policy
Servants of the people
Flexicurity
How the Danes do it
How to think about work
The grass is always greener
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Technology in China
An uncertain new path
Bartleby
Shallow impact
Social media
Hype club
Corporate buccaneers
Seize and insist
The future of drugmaking
Reformulated
Schumpeter
Unbundling sport
Finance & economics


Global property
The race for space
On the mend
The IMF marks up the global recovery
Corporate taxes
Setting a floor
Cryptocurrencies
Squaring the coin
Bitcoin
The dirty truth
China’s stockmarket
A new tack
Robert Mundell
Floating ideas
Free exchange
Our world, not in data
Science & technology


Race and sex bias in medicine
Fatal truths
Covid-19 vaccines
Sorting signal from noise
Domestic heating
A new use for microwaves
Particle physics
Model misbehaviour
Books & arts


Art and belonging
The girl with the blue ribbon
Les slammeurs
Rhyme for your life
Egyptian fiction
A general in his labyrinth
Alfred Hitchcock
Dial him for murder
Johnson
Tough stuff
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


House prices
Approaching the ceiling
Obituary


Larry McMurtry
Paperback rider

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The pandemic in Europe
What has gone wrong?
The European Union has handled covid-19 poorly. Why, and what does it mean for the union?

Trade
Message in a bottleneck
Global supply chains are still a source of strength, not weakness

Israel
Breaking the stalemate
To unblock Israeli politics, get rid of the man in the way

Methane leaks
Put a plug in it
Governments should set targets to reduce methane emissions

The IMF and the pandemic
Special drawing wrongs
Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the filibuster, UN peacekeepers, climate change, covid-19, cats
Briefing

Europe and covid
The lack of needles and the damage done
The covid-19 pandemic was the kind of crisis that could push the EU forward. When it came to vaccines, it left Brussels carrying the blame

Encouraging the economy
Down to the wire
The details of the EU’s ambitious recovery plans are being finalised. It is not just their size that looks set to change the union

Asia


Japan and America
BFFs once more
Buddhism in Myanmar
Beggars, but choosers
Religion in Malaysia
In the name of God
Politics in South Korea
Masters of disillusion
Banyan
Talking the generals down
China


Sinifying Christianity
Clearing out the foreign
Coronavirus origins
Anywhere but here
Chaguan
China sees its moment
United States


Voting rights
Not so peachy
Vaccination nation
Winning the upper-arms race
Derek Chauvin
The trial begins
Governors in trouble (1): Gavin Newsom
The recall brawl
Governors in trouble (2): Andrew Cuomo
Crisis in Cuomolot
Ghost kitchens
Cooking up a business model
Juvenile criminal-justice
Locked up for life
Lexington
Bridges to somewhere
The Americas


Central America’s elite
Blood and money
Political dynasties in Nicaragua
Chamorro tomorrow?
Argentina’s debt deal
It takes two to disentangle
Middle East & Africa


Israel
Too many kingmakers
Free speech
Boarding up the clubhouse
Egypt
Always going big
Tanzania
Hoping for change
Poaching
Unhappy hunting grounds
Europe


France
Tanks again
Serbia
Vial stuff
Germany and covid-19
Who’s in charge?
Latvian poetry
Folk histories in four lines
Charlemagne
Netflix Europa
Britain


The Red Wall reconsidered
Barratt Britain
Economic growth
Beating expectations
Schools and sexual abuse
Girls aloud
Scotland
When separatists separate
The City
Cold dinner
Christianity
God the rock star
Bagehot
What’s to become of them?
International


Vaccines
Spreading the needle
Business


Commercial decoupling
Swept up in a storm
Commercial property
WeSurvive
Riding Hon Hai
Hon Hai, Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler, is eyeing cars
American newspapers
Who wants to be a press baron?
Bartleby
Their finest hours
Urban transport
Flying taxis take off at last
Schumpeter
Poker chips
Finance & economics


The Archegos affair
Margin call of the wild
The IMF
Performance anxiety
China’s lending
Neither predator nor pal
The scramble for commodities (1)
Mission critical
The scramble for commodities (2)
From the red earth
Buttonwood
The frog chorus
Free exchange
The underachiever
Science & technology


Global warming
The other greenhouse gas
Books & arts


Art and conquest
The spoils of war
The Peruvian Amazon
The wood from the trees
Writers’ lives
The human stained
Haunted fiction
Daze of the dead
Contemporary art
Cabin fever
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Car crashes
A dark conundrum
Obituary


Steven Spurrier
An Englishman in Paris

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
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Bright side of the moonshots
Science after the pandemic
Covid-19 has brought together medical technologies that will transform human health

Emerging markets
Unanchored by Ankara
Turkey’s walk on the wild side holds lessons for other economies

Online commerce
Fintech comes to America, at last
A digital-payments system that favours consumers, not banks and credit-card firms, is long overdue

Bangladesh at 50
Mid-life crisis
The country has come an astonishingly long way, but progress may be stalling

Brain injuries
Knocked out and locked up
A huge share of people in prison have brain injuries. They need more help

Letters

Letters to the editor
On nuclear power, Namibia, Uber, jury trials, beer, Bob Dylan
Briefing

Nucleic-acid medicine
A new phaRNAcopoeia
Cometh the hour, cometh the molecule. The covid-19 pandemic has given RNA a long-awaited turn in the medical spotlight

Asia


Bangladesh turns 50
From rags to stitches
Reinventing rural South Korea
Purple pose
Politics in Cambodia
Stack ’em high
Chinese-Indians
The Kolkata clan
India’s ruling party
Downgrading Delhi
Banyan
Gratitude-resistant strains
China


The Olympics
Winter of discontent
Weather modification
No silver lining
Chaguan
Still a man’s world
United States


Violence in America
A modern murder mystery
State of the unions
The battle of Bessemer
Jobless data
Wild claims
Patronage games
Situations vacant
Fashion police
A coded message
Drought in the West
Let it snow
Lexington
The God-shaped hole
Middle East & Africa


The great Rwanda debate
Paragon or prison?
The war in Yemen
Smoke and no ceasefire
Iran and Iraq
Trouble with the neighbours
See you again in August
Israel’s election has not broken the deadlock
The Americas


Covid-19 in Brazil
Variants on a theme of disaster
Peru’s election
And then there were lots
The Squamish Nation
It was their backyard first
Bello
An unhappy 30th birthday
Europe


Turkey
Erdogan’s own goal
Vaccine exports
To have and to hold
Italy
Of property rights and dead popes
Spanish politics
The Madrid breakwater
Charlemagne
The odd couple
Britain


Britain and the European Union
Cross-channel conflict
Asylum
Tiers for fears
Defence cuts
Power rangers
Scottish politics
Defying gravity
Scottish independence
Madame Ecosse
Employment
To be young was very hell
Firefighting
No smoke, no fire
Bagehot
Dizzy rascal
International


Brain injuries and crime
Banged up
Technology Quarterly


A year of learning dangerously
The great reveal
Testing and tracing
Situational awareness
Treatments
Finding what works
Vaccination
Like nothing that has happened before
Tracking evolution
Know your enemy
Forecasting
All in the blood
Smoother sailing
A thing of brightness
Acknowledgments and further reading
Business


Manufacturing in America
Firing on all cylinders
A Suez crisis
Chokehold
Entertainment
Billing, billing
A lean year
Saudi Aramco’s profits decline—but not the dividend
German-Russian business
The last bridge
Bartleby
The great divide
The ultra-rich
A plutocratic makeover
Schumpeter
Herbie goes electric
Finance & economics


Inflation expectations
A different kind of fluke
Climate finance
It is not so easy being green
Asian economies
Power in reserves
German capital markets
A new master for the watchdog
Digital payments
Scaling the peak
Buttonwood
Jay-talking
Free exchange
Just the few of us
Science & technology


Aerial warfare
Blue-sky thinking
Sexual selection and speciation
Choice and determinism
Life, the universe and everything
Beauty spots
Books & arts


Rwanda and its leader
Behind the mask
A history of constitutions
The writes of man
Lives of the gangsters
King of the desert
Myanmar’s secrets
Shards of light
Johnson
The memory hole
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Film and racism
A tarnished silver screen
Obituary


Nawal El-Saadawi
The uses of anger

The brutal reality of dealing with China

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The fallout from Hong Kong
Dealing with China
An epoch-defining contest between autocracy and liberal values lies ahead

Immigration
Biden’s border crisis
The president faces a decisive test of his leadership

Covid-19 vaccination
Another shot in the foot
European countries’ abundance of caution will cost lives

Civil liberties in Britain
A taste for cracking down
The government should bin its illiberal attempt to restrict protest

Economic development
How to promote African factories
A sub-Saharan industrial revolution need not be a pipe dream

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the Sussexes, language, McKinsey, UBI, duty free, beards
Briefing

Hong Kong
The way it’s going to be
China is not just shackling Hong Kong. It is set on remaking it

Asia


The coup in Myanmar
Blood money
Gay marriage in Japan
Inching forward
Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea
Mourning sickness
Children in Kashmir
A two-year break
Sexual abuse in Australian politics
Chambers of secrets
Banyan
Himalayan upheaval
China


Disability
The unseen
United States


Illegal immigration
Biden’s border bind
Murder in Atlanta
Red lights
Government software
Trying to get the hang of IT
South Dakota’s economy
Lives or livelihoods?
The black church
Haunted houses
Lexington
Joe Biden’s passage to India
Middle East & Africa


Israel’s election
Another tight one
John Magufuli
Bulldozed by reality
African industry
Manufacturing hope
Cabo Delgado
Mozambique and the war on terror
The Americas


Biden and Bolsonaro
At loggerheads over the Amazon
Politics in Honduras
Over the line
Bello
After the storm
Europe


German politics
The sleepwalker
Dutch election
Suddenly Sigrid
Pets and politics in France
Future impurrfect
Turkey
The banker and the president
Russia
Panic womb
Charlemagne
The new Turks
Britain


Foreign policy
White heat
Nuclear warheads
Stocking up
Foreign aid
Chop, chop
Protest
No more parades
Uber
Move fast and fix things
Covid-19
Speed bump
Census
Question time
Voting rights
Ballot boxing
Bagehot
England speaks up
International


Global happiness
It might seem crazy
Business


Japanese business
Analects and abacus
Eni trial
Free to go
Baidu
Searching for the next big thing
Bartleby
Winning personality
Leonardo Del Vecchio
2025 vision
Schumpeter
America’s 5G shock
Finance & economics


China’s financial opening
Over the great wall
Treasury markets
Overflowing
Non-fungible tokens
What’s wrong with this picture?
Economics education
New instructions
Buttonwood
The Draghi effect
Free exchange
For goodness’ sake
Science & technology


Espionage (1)
Ears in the sky
Espionage (2)
Round the bend
Entomology
Swarm immunity
Evolution
Mitochondria 2.0
Books & arts


Fighting falsehood
Not gonna lie
The right to die
Going gently
Caustic fiction
No man’s land
The art of repair
A crack in everything
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


War and farming
Blood and soil
Obituary


Wang Fuchun
Closely observed trains

Biden’s big gamble: What a $1.9 trillion stimulus means for the world economy

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The world economy
Biden’s big gamble
This week’s extraordinary stimulus is a high-stakes bet for America and the world

Politics
How to renew America’s democracy
Voting reform and scrapping the filibuster would help

Vaccine passports
Needle to know
Identity schemes have a part to play in the return to life as normal, but only a modest one

Human rights
How to curb violence against women
A good start would be to stigmatise it

The transformation of retailing
21st-century consumers
New shopping behaviours should be welcomed, not feared

Benefiting from Brexit
Growing apart
Brexit brings precious few advantages, but there are some. The government should exploit them

Letters

Letters to the editor
On innovation, Charles II of Spain, touching, travel, beliefs
Briefing

The filibuster
Motion to dismiss
The filibuster is an oddity that harms American democracy

The use of supermajorities elsewhere
Less than overwhelming
Most countries want nothing to do with the filibuster

Asia


Covid-19 in India
Getting off lightly
Beauty treatments in Afghanistan
Vanity at war
Human rights in North Korea
In the dark
American forces in Asia
Dispersal orders
Banyan
No way forwards—or back
China


Five-year plan
The big target
Hong Kong politics
Democracy, China’s way
Chaguan
Why the internet hasn’t freed China
United States


The battle over voting laws
Heads we win, tails you cheated
Gerrymandering
House that?
Press freedom
Midwestern nasty
Plane expensive
The sky-high cost of drones
Tribes of the Hamptons
White shoes and slot machines
Economic experiments
Taking stock of Stockton
Lexington
The wild man of the mountains
Middle East & Africa


Syria
A country divided
The oil trade
Ghost ships and dollar scrip
Senegal
Botching the beacon
The Ibrahim prize
A gift seldom given
Somalia’s politics
Guns, terms and stealing power
Working from the beach house
Keyboard surfers
The Americas


Canada and China
Hostage diplomacy
Mexico’s pampered pets
The dogs are all right
Brazilian politics
Back in the game
Bello
Forward into the darkness
Europe


Covid-19
Jab-seekers
Italy
Demolition Draghi
Rent controls in Berlin
A disaster foretold
German state elections
A green light for “traffic-light” coalitions
European censuses
Gotta find ’em all
Charlemagne
If you can’t beat them, join them
Britain


That interview
Taking on the firm
How racist is Britain?
By royal disappointment
Brexit
A new orbit
Brexit
A deep hole
Northern Ireland’s loyalists
A polite threat
Television news
Eyes right
Farming and eating
A new landscape
International


Violence against women
A terrible toll
Nicaragua’s success
Hope for tomorrow
Special report


The future of shopping
One-to-one commerce
The marketplace
Deplatforming
The merchants
Rise of the rebels
The travelling salesmen
Arming the rebels
The food stall
Omnivores
Mass craftsmanship
Made to measure
People
Servants and masters
The future
Land left to conquer
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Bartleby
When common sense fails
Rupert Murdoch at 90
Next up
Computer games
School’s out
Jet engines
Losing thrust
Film-making
Go small
Corporate climate reporting
Telling all
Japanese business
Japan Inc goes digital
Schumpeter
Jack Dorsey’s split personality
Finance & economics


The world economy
The $3trn question
Oil prices
High and tight
Buttonwood
Winter’s tale
Trade
Shots fired
Lies, damned lies and implied lies
“Real” growth in China
Liquefied natural gas
The polar silk road
Fintech in China
Mood swing
Free exchange
Many hats
Science & technology


Easing the lockdowns
Back to normality?
Books & arts


Democracy in Turkey
The never-ending coup
Russian fiction
The poisoner’s tale
Ballroom dancing
The door to a hundred joys
Women in New York
A room of their own
Johnson
Minty fresh
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 risk
One size fits few
Obituary


Mourid Barghouti
The pain of displacement

MAR 6TH 2021
The lessons of Fukushima

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Welfare in the 21st century
Bouncing back
How to make a social safety net for the post-covid world

Fiscal policy in Britain
St Augustine’s economics
The chancellor wants to rein in government spending, but not yet

The Middle East
It’s complicated
What America should do in the Middle East

Chinese politics
The darkest corners
A clear-out of the security agencies shows the opacity of power in China

Ten years after 3/11
The lessons of Fukushima
Nuclear power must be well run, not ditched

Letters

Letters to the editor
On decarbonisation, Russia, America’s constitution, diversity, biodiversity, foreign expressions
Briefing

The future of the welfare state
Shelter from the storm
The pandemic has transformed the welfare state. Which changes will endure?

Asia


Myanmar
The shooting starts
Price controls in the Philippines
Pig mistake
Internet freedom
Web of regulation
The Fukushima disaster
Nuclear decay
Banyan
Asia’s unjabbed arms
China


Domestic security
Scraping the bones
Dissent in Hong Kong
The law kicks in
Chaguan
Red tourism in Xi’s China
United States


America and the Middle East
Exodus, chapter 41
The Senate
Slimming tips
Esoteric radicals
Red and black
Building in San Francisco
If I had a hammer
The sperm and egg business
Swimming freestyle
Evangelicals after Trump
Two nations under God
Middle East & Africa


Christians in Iraq
Still bearing the cross
Lebanon
A jab among friends
Homophobia in Africa
Out and preyed on
Nigeria
Tomato truce
The Americas


Elections in El Salvador
The millennial caudillo
The Chango people
A sea change
Bello
A gap between Chile and the rest
Europe


EU border policy
New kings of the wild frontier
France
An end to impunity
Napoleon’s bicentenary
An emperor’s clothes
Armenia
After the war
Alexei Navalny
Prisoner of confusion
Charlemagne
A Swabian success story
Britain


The budget
A game of two halves
Levelling up
The Tees party
Refurbishing Number 10
Grand designs
Scottish politics
A funny smell in Holyrood
Labour in Scotland
Stopping the rot
Unlucky students
Swindled?
Aristofascists
Nazi parties
Bagehot
The art of the steal
International


Debt diplomacy
Here we go again
Business


Vaccine-making
Racing ahead
Business and covid-19
DAX vaxxers
Bartleby
A shot in the dark
Chinese law firms
Expansion, your honour!
Gambling in China
Let the good times roll
The glass-ceiling index
More cracks appear
Socially distant shopping
Drive-through rules
Packaged food
Breadwinners
Schumpeter
The smuggest guys in the room
Finance & economics


Financial markets
The inflation bogeyman
Buttonwood
Lament for the pointy-heads
Greensill Capital
Accounts due
China’s economy
Taper test
Platform economics
The price of fame
Universal basic income
Cheques and balances
Free exchange
The fragile four
Science & technology


Computers and sign language
Unspoken understanding
Face-masks and covid-19
Helpful humidity
Carbon capture and storage
Supergrass
Spies and technology
Machine intelligence
Hacking history
Origami in reverse
Books & arts


Gene-editing
Tomorrow’s world
Cyber-security
Zero hour
Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel
More than human
Artistic licence on screen
History plays
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 vaccines
Six of one
Obituary


Cicely Tyson
Beauty and defiance

The battle for China’s backyard

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Tech competition
The dust-up
A new phase in the global tech contest is under way

South-East Asia
The battle for China’s backyard
The growing rivalry between America and China will hinge on South-East Asia

Innovation
How to make sparks fly
Lessons from the pandemic on how to promote innovation

Big men, big money
Fixing Africa’s pricey politics
Tackling patronage requires understanding how it works

The trouble with duty-free
Call of duty
It is time to close the airport-shopping loophole

Letters

Letters to the editor
On genocide, bitcoin, loneliness, model aircraft, daredevils, music
Briefing

China and South-East Asia
Tea and tributaries
In no region is China’s influence felt more strongly than among the ten nations of South-East Asia

Asia


China and Asia
Life in the doghouse
Minority rights in Indonesia
Breaking cover
Housing in South Korea
Get me a flat—or else
Banyan
Toolmasters
China


Politics in Hong Kong
Time for some holistic love
Wolves
Reviled to revered
Chaguan
Build it and they will go
United States


Biden’s nuclear dilemma
Nukes of hazard
The toll of covid-19
It contains multitudes
Immigration reform returns
Go big or go home
Quietly fixing health care
To smooth a cliff
Testing in schools
Stop writing
The Texas model
Snow business
Lexington
Teach first
Middle East & Africa


Pricey politics
The gilded path to power
The war in Tigray
Murder in the mountains
Israeli politics
Abu Yair wants your support
The Americas


Haiti
Hoping against hope
Cuba
Reggaeton rebellion
Bello
Victory for the old politics
Europe


Russia and Turkey
The odd couple
France
Uphill struggle in the snow
Germany
Secret snips
Charlemagne
Underground abortions
Britain


Covid-19
How life sciences came to the rescue
Opening up
Pencil it in
Scotland
Feuding nationalists
Class and ideology
Minecraft
Bank debt
A scary scenario
After Brexit
Counting the cost
Pig farming
This little piggy didn’t go to market
Bagehot
An impossible job
International


Home-schooling
Kitchen-table classrooms
Business


Technology and competition
Collusion and collisions
Duty-free retail
Continental drift
Loss of Sneadership
McKinsey casts off its managing partner
Bartleby
Foot-in-mouth disease
Schumpeter
Headsets at dawn
Finance & economics


Carbon trading (1)
Coming into its own
Carbon trading (2)
Cleaning up
Brazil’s economy
Petrol problems
Cryptocurrencies
UnTethered
Buttonwood
Jumping the skew
America’s labour market
Not having it all
Carbon abatement
Giving up carbs
Free exchange
Regression to the memes
Science & technology


Covid and genetics
A mixed blessing
Geoengineering
Floating a trial balloon
A video-call from Mars
Mission accomplished
Electricity transmission
Look, no wires!
Clean energy
Toothpaste in your tank
Ocean ecology
Meet the new boss
Books & arts


Covid, cinema and censorship
The siege of Bollywood
The online life
More of a rat
Spies and lies
No regrets
Commodity-traders
Black-gold rush
Johnson
The human touch
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 mutations
It’s a family affair
Obituary


George Shultz
The secret persuader

America’s better future: No carbon and no blackouts

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Decarbonising America
America’s better future
This is the moment for an ambitious attempt to deal with climate change

Italy
Another chance
Mario Draghi’s appointment as prime minister is good for Italy and good for Europe

Capital-raising on Wall Street
Spactacular
SPACS are a mania—and a useful way to take firms public

India’s jobs market
Many hands, light work
A lower share of women are in work in India than in Saudi Arabia

Fighting jihadists
Macron’s African mission
France wants to avoid a “forever war” in the Sahel. That will take patience, and allies

Letters

On nuclear weapons, J.B. Priestley, China, covid-19, protests, Moore’s law, sheds
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Decarbonising America
The switch
America has done too little to fight rising temperatures. Joe Biden wants to change that

Asia


India’s labour market
200m jobs short
New Caledonia
Les Kanaks en marche
The coup in Myanmar
General strike
Lockdown in the Philippines
Suffer the little children
Banyan
The swing to the sultans
China


The vaccine roll-out
Sinovacillate
Pirated films
Winter is coming
Chaguan
How to kill a democracy
United States


A perfect storm
Light a candle for the kids
Impeachment
Marred but at largio
Talk radio
Tower of babble
Andrew Cuomo and the pandemic
Under pressure
Baltimore’s homes
Rescued charm
The ideas of the far right
Deadly inspirations
Lexington
John Kerry, eco-warrior
The Americas


Mexico’s president
The transformer
Women in Mexico
Tampon tempest
Bello
A case of mistaken identity
Middle East & Africa


France’s forever war
Which way out?
The International Criminal Court
The case against the prosecutor
Tree trade
Coconut shy
Angola’s economy
Oil, toil and spoils
Iranian politics
The agitator
The United Arab Emirates
Hope and despair
Europe


Italy and Europe
Whatever it takes
Catalonia votes
Variations on a nationalist theme
France
Protection plates
Russia’s propaganda war
Sympathy for the devil
Charlemagne
Dirty politics
Britain


Cutting carbon
Big on clean energy
Solar power
Here comes the sun
The politics of culture
Bonfire of the insanities
Growing cannabis
Pot luck
Covid-19
Here we go
Financial technology
Silicon wallet
Bagehot
Starmer stuck
Jobs at The Economist
We’re hiring
International


Touch and covid-19
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling
Business


Mobility in China
Trafficking dreams
Intel
Hard reboot
The record industry
Musical shares
Carmaking
ICEy conditions ahead
Glencore
Pit stop
Danone
Culture wars
Online shopping
South Korea’s baby Amazon
Bartleby
Back for good, or bad
Schumpeter
Red in tooth and clawback
Finance & economics


Capital markets
SPAC invasion
SPACs in Silicon Valley
Rain for the rainmakers
Great expectations
Economic forecasters are pencilling in heady growth rates
Stock exchanges
Advantage Amsterdam
Digital currencies
Token gestures
Trade
In search of a cure
Buttonwood
Jumping ship
Free exchange
Radiant energy
Science & technology


Gender medicine
Arrested development
Palaeontology
Very, very long in the tooth
Electric sailing
Of batteries and boats
Sleep research
The interpretation of dreams
Books & arts


Tackling climate change
The race to zero
Britain’s past and present
The sun never sets
Foreigners in Berlin
Unreal city
British fiction
Still lives
Korean listening habits
Exit music
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Monarchy and genetics
The reign in Spain
Obituary


Chick Corea
Music without limits

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The pandemic
How well will vaccines work?
They will not simply eradicate covid-19. Governments need to start thinking about how to live with the virus

The world economy
Inflategate
How higher inflation could disrupt global economic policy

Human rights
How to talk about Xinjiang
“Genocide” is the wrong word for the horrors China is inflicting on the Uyghurs

Reducing child poverty
An end to exceptionalism
The White House and a prominent Republican senator propose to follow European schemes

Life, the universe and everything
Alien dreams
The search for ET may soon yield an answer

Letters

On Scotland, GameStop, markets, innovation, primaries, baseball, Rizlas
Letters to the editor
Briefing

Vaccine efficacy
Obstacle course
The race between vaccines and variants is heating up

Vaccine hesitancy
Broken arrow
Some people are unwilling to be vaccinated. That will be a problem

Astrobiology
Come out, come out, wherever you are!
If life exists beyond Earth, science may find it soon

Asia


The Tokyo Olympics
Olympic gory
Protests in Myanmar
Don’t putsch me
Banyan
Cool it or blow?
Bangladesh’s army
Wallets at the ready
Noise complaints in South Korea
Hell is other people
Geopolitics in the Pacific
Palm-fringed fury
China


Repression in Tibet
Accept these gifts, or else
Online debate
Suddenly, space for free-thinkers
Chaguan
Working together, but in parallel
United States


Congress
Swing voters
Social media and anti-vaxxers
Likes and protein spikes
Election administration
Count-22
Presidential libraries
The shrining
Oregon’s drugs policy
Trail blazers
America and China
Genocide aside
Lexington
Speak easy
Middle East & Africa


America and the Middle East
New sheriff in town
Libya
Fourth time lucky
The Horn of Africa
Adding to the chaos
Congolese politics
The president pounces
Kenya’s rose-tinted spectacle
Flower power
The Americas


Cuba and Venezuela
Practically perfect
Colombia
Activists amid anarchy
Bello
Ecuador’s politics of the negative
Europe


Education and covid-19
A tale of two colleges
France
The president’s dilemma
Turkey
Lesbian, gay, bi and terrorist?
Pets and covid-19
Canine crushes
Italian politics
No time for foot-Draghing
Charlemagne
They told you so
Britain


National Health Service
Hands on
Rule-breaking
Going underground
Sino-British relations
No longer glistening
Exporting vaccine
Good global citizens
Business and the economy
A firm footing
Travel restrictions
Grounded
Internal borders
No place like home
Bagehot
The price of acceptance
International


Freedom of speech
Inconvenient truths
Special report


The future of travel
The age of the wheelie-bag
The airline industry
No heads in the clouds
The environmental damage
Emission days
Business travel
Video-conferencing rules
Corporate jets
High flyers
Testing and vaccines
Well travelled
Tourism
The holiday only just began
The future
Faster, higher, longer
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Corporate earnings
Harbingers of boom
Unions v big tech
Labour coders
Privatisations in India
Flogging the family lead
Anglo-German business ties
From bad to wurst
Bartleby
Diary of a plague year
Schumpeter
Alpha pipers
Finance & economics


Emerging economies
Some pleasant fiscal arithmetic
Commodities
Twin peaks
Picking up pace
Inflation will rise in the coming months
Bank bosses
Fresh blood
Buttonwood
Crossbar challenge
Trade policy in America
Rinse and repeat
Free exchange
Targeting practice
Science & technology


The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Both ends against the middle
Oncology
Precisely!
Sustainable construction
Urban growth
Silicon chats
Conversational computers have come a long way
Books & arts


Scientists and aliens
Black-sky thinking
Robert Maxwell
A made-up life
Caste and gender in India
Death traps
Johnson
At a loss for words
Graphic detail


Covid-19 vaccines
Jabs and jab-nots
Obituary


Paul Crutzen
Seer of the Anthropocene
Economic Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Global finance
The real revolution on Wall Street
High tech meets high finance. It is a promising, but volatile, combination

Fiscal stimulus in America
How much is too much?
Targeted relief would be better than indiscriminate spending

Despots v democrats
The meaning of Myanmar’s coup
Attempts to dress up authoritarian regimes as democracies are unlikely to succeed

Brexit and the City
The price is wrong
If the EU insists that Britain accept its financial rules in return for market access, Britain should say no

Disease and development
Africa’s long covid
The pandemic threatens to undercut the poorest continent’s precarious progress

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Ethiopia, vaccine passports, space debris, Wikipedia
Briefing

Myanmar’s coup
Reversion to type
A general’s thirst for power has shut down democratic rule

Asia


Defending South Korea
Strengthening the shrimp
Insularity in Japan
Home, sweet home
Asian corporate culture
Here’s my QR code
Free speech in India
Prevention is better than cure
Banyan
The shock of the old
China


Ideological battles
Red Guards, redux
Syllabus reform
Young at art
Chaguan
Of sickness and homesickness
United States


California v Texas v covid-19
Life, liberty
School enrolment
Vanishing act
Unions and schools
Class warfare
Covid-19 relief, episode 6
Stimulating talks
Abortion arguments
Roe-ing back
Lexington
The courage of Adam Kinzinger
Middle East & Africa


Africa and covid-19
At the end of the line
Israeli politics
A sea of trouble
Algeria’s car shortage
Broken-down country
Honour killings
Murder, plain and simple
The Americas


Colombia
The terrible truth
Elections in Latin America
More mice than Mussolinis
Bello
A grand bargain
Europe


Italy
Send in the technocrats, again
Russia
A mockery of justice
Nord Stream 2
Running out of gas?
Sweden
Solitary cinema
Charlemagne
Looking for someone to blame
Britain


Brexit
The view from the City
Spirit of the age
Captain Sir Tom Moore
Northern Ireland
Two dangerous borders
Covid-19
Hancock’s hour
Country life
Killing fields
R&D
Blue skies ahead
The national mood
Why the long face?
Bagehot
Riding high
International


The future of nightclubs
Don’t stand so close to me
Business


The future of Amazon
Life after Jeff
Carmaking
Driving apart
Chinese firms abroad
Too close to the sun
Feuding tech giants
Cook v Zuck
Football TV rights
Goalless defeat
Bartleby
Talent management
Schumpeter
The long squeeze
Finance & economics


Retail investing
Transfer of power
The new intermediaries
Pay-per trade
WallStreetBets
Meme team
China’s capital outflows
Border crossings
Wirecard
After months of dithering...
Buttonwood
Shark attack
Free exchange
The natural question
Science & technology


Making vaccines
Doing the do
Viral variants and vaccination
Enigma variations
Daughters and divorce
Teenage rampage
Marine ecology
Plastic oases
The origin of land animals
Getting a leg up
Books & arts


France’s shame
Open secrets
Urban turmoil
Tales of the city
Eco-fiction
Sea change
The death of age
Who wants to live for ever?
Proust and the people
The time of their lives
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Stockmarkets
Sweet memes are made of this
Obituary


Nikolai Antoshkin
At war with the invisible

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Arms control
Who will go nuclear next?
The world is facing an upsurge of proliferation. To stop it, nuclear powers need to act

Europe’s lockdown
Shot in the foot
Fussy decision-making has slowed Europe’s vaccine roll-out—and threatens its economy

World trade
The folly of Buy American
President Biden’s protectionism sullies his economic agenda

The Palestinians
Time for Abbas to go
New leadership is needed both in the West Bank and in Gaza

America in Asia
Free not to choose
In its rivalry with China, America should not force Asians to pick sides

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Donald Trump, Lincolnshire, Switzerland, Erasmus
Briefing

Nuclear proliferation
Who’s next?
Nuclear proliferation is not fast. But it is still frightening

Asia


Asia and America
Relief tinged with scepticism
Mongolia
Snowflake surrender
Japanese politics
Suga slumps
Organised crime
Ice lord
Banyan
Hard to account for
China


Trade-union reform
Precariat unite!
African students
School’s out
Chaguan
Becoming more Chinese
United States


The Biden administration
Ctrl+Z
Vaccinations
Access denied
Pickleball
The new, old thing
Impeachment 2.0
Getting away with it
Trans women in prisons
Prisoners’ dilemma
Off-piste skiing
Lifts-off
Lexington
QAnon and other delusions
Middle East & Africa


The Palestinians
To the polls
Morocco
Sex, lies and videotape
African diets
Feast and famine
Mining in Africa
A tale of two billionaires
The Americas


Ecuador
A worrying windfall
Colombia
Bootleg bonanza
Europe


Europe’s vaccine rows
Shots fired
Vaccinations in France
Pasteur’s lament
Italy
Going, going…
Germany
Wheezing
Turkey
A cult leader gets 1,000 years in jail
Charlemagne
Eastern Europe’s brain gain
Britain


Scotland
Searching for the exit
Language
Learning the drill
Trade deals
Nice work
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Madness at the border
Hong Kong
Give me your wealthy
Halting infections
Dirty stop outs
Space plans
Unst, we have a problem
Bagehot
Party of colour
International


Risk-taking
Last of the daredevils
Business


Family firms
Mittelstand-off
Sverige AB and China
Stockholm syndrome
Big tech’s banner year
Apple’s quarterly sales exceed $100bn for the first time
Online media
Big tech down under
Middle Eastern commerce
Abrahamic profits
Starbucks
Espresso lane
Oil-services firms
Will baby drill?
Job titles
Hail to the “chiefs”
Bartleby
You’ll often walk alone
Schumpeter
The state bird of Washington, DC
Finance & economics


China’s property market
The great escape
Belt-tightening
Acting less big
Buy American
Building block
Market mania
Will the GameStop?
Buttonwood
Time warp
Indian banking
Can cannot be kicked further
Free exchange
The fight over fifteen
Science & technology


Competition and innovation
TV’s tech wars
Television audio
In your face
Cell cultures as pet food
Try it on the dog
Books & arts


Immigration
The best of both worlds
Johnson
Stress tests
Geography and history
Heave-ho
Music in space
We are the world
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Air pollution
Midnight sky
Obituary


Hank Aaron
Hammering through