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The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
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Global growth
Fault lines in the world economy
The global economic recovery is fast, furious—and fragile

America’s longest war
Abandoning Afghanistan
The consequences of the 20-year intervention, already horrific, are likely to get worse

Chinese capitalism
Hit and run
The attack on Didi shows how high a price the Communist Party puts on control

The mayor of New York
New cop on the beat
Eric Adams brings sanity to the effort to turn New York City around

Penal reform
Pointlessly punitive
Why life sentences without parole are almost always a bad idea

Letters

Letters to the editor
On literacy, military reserves, working days, Kenneth Kaunda, historical fiction
Briefing

Inflation
Boom and doom?
Prices are rising much faster than expected across the world’s economies. Will it last?

Asia


Afghanistan after America
Peace out
Human rights in India
Father, who art in prison
Banyan
The Myanmar trap
South Korea’s work culture
(; —,_—)
Japanese politics
Tokyo drifts
The South China Sea
Hark! The herald angels say “buzz off”
China


Bitcoin mining
There was gold in them thar hills
Party history
De-Maoification
Chaguan
For-profit patriotism
United States


Patriotism and polarisation
The history wars
New York’s next mayor
Adams’s Apple
Travel returns
Baby, you can’t drive my car
Green-on-green battles
Dammed if you do
Religious affiliations
None of the above
Conspiracies
Wrestling with common sense
Lexington
What a way to spend $2trn
The Americas


Haiti
A presidential assassination
Urban malaise
Quitting the city
Colombia
Blocking the schoolhouse door
Bello
The clash in Peru
Middle East & Africa


The Iran nuclear deal
Enriching talks
Lebanon
Begging for help
Cannabis in Morocco
High in the mountains
Eswatini
The king’s reply
South Sudan
Unhappy birthday
Europe


Covid-19 in Russia
How not to do it
Turkey
Scandals galore
Folk festivals
After the plague, the revelry
The Catholic church
Vatican rocked
Charlemagne
The surreptitious socialist
Britain


Hospital queues
The mystery at the heart of the NHS
Lockdown
The strange myth of liberal England
A fintech share listing
Direct transfer
Morrisons
Price war
Local news
Night crawlers
Romance
Tall, handsome—and darker
Carmaking
Pedal to the metal
Bagehot
Band of brothers
International


Life sentences
Retrieving the key
Business


Sino-American tech tensions
In the grip of anxiety
Alcohol-free beer
Buzzkill
Conversational commerce
Chat-up lines
Amazon
The Jassy age
The airline business
Dark skies and silver linings
Schumpeter
Keeping it in the ground
Finance & economics


Quantitative easing
The quest to quit QE
Buttonwood
Classic convertible
Oil markets
Division over the spoils
Company buyouts
Frenemies
Investment in Africa
Links in the chain
Free exchange
Stabilité, libéralité, égalité
Science & technology


Automating programming
The software software engineers
Copper gushers
Brine mines
The origin of songbirds
The sweet taste of success
Symbiosis
Ants, acacias and shameless bribery
How tea gets its flavour
Milk, sugar and microbes, please
Books & arts


Social skills
The comfort of strangers
A private-equity scandal
All that glitters
Mediterranean history
Under the volcano
Contemporary art
To the lighthouse
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Elections and the pandemic
Stamped out
Obituary


Donald Rumsfeld
Stuff happens

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What If?


If biohackers injected themselves with mRNA
Freedom to tinker
If America tackled its opioid crisis
The other epidemic
If a deadly heat wave hit India
A tale of two cities
If everyone’s nutrition was personalised
You are what you eat
If smartphones became personal health assistants
An Apple a day
If marmosets lived on the Moon
Mrs Chippy’s benediction
If dementia was preventable and treatable
Novel treatments
If an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine
Rage against the machine
If germ theory had caught on sooner
Germ of an idea
Leaders

After the pandemic
The long goodbye
The pandemic is still far from over, but glimpses of its legacy are emerging

Holding elections
The real risk to America’s democracy
Partisan election administration is a greater worry than voter suppression

Heatwaves
Mercury rising
How to protect people from the growing threat posed by extreme heat

Hong Kong as a financial centre
Code red
Hong Kong’s regulator is right to be wary of finance with Chinese characteristics

Europeans in Britain
A vote of confidence
Britain should encourage the 5m Europeans who want to settle to become citizens

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Afghanistan, Tesla, UNESCO, Brazil, Geordies
Briefing

Covid-19 variants
Coats of many colours
Evolution has complicated the covid-19 pandemic by providing a growing range of viral variants. They make global action yet more urgent

Asia


North Korea’s economy
Taking back control
South Indian politics
Meet the Dravidian Stalin
Hygiene and culture
Return to sento
Malaysian politics
Schrödinger’s government
Banyan
Hindustani at heart
China


The Chinese navy
Carry that weight
Youth culture
Giving up, lying down
Chaguan
It works until it doesn’t
United States


Republicans and elections
Razing Arizona
Title 42
Border disorder
UFOs
The truth is not out there
Lexington
There goes the neighbourhood
The Americas


Cuba
Serve the people
Indigenous Canadians
Searching for the truth
Bello
Mestizaje, reality and myth
Middle East & Africa


Covid-19 in Africa
Third time unlucky
South Africa
Another kind of capture
Ethiopia’s civil war
Defeat in the mountains
Egypt and Gaza
Sisi sees an opportunity
Food in the Gulf
Kitchen inconsequential
Europe


Germany, Greece and Turkey
Shifting the balance
Foreign aid
Unsustained development goals
Montenegro
Darkness shrouds the mountain
Obituary: Dick Leonard
Mr Europe
Charlemagne
Politics by other means
Britain


EU migrants
The five million
Anti-lockdown protests
Opposites attract
Economic statistics
A piece of the puzzle
Government subsidies
Helping handout
Pet theft
Paw patrol
City lawyers
Suiting up
Pity the drug-peddler
Dealing, with stress
Bagehot
The comeback kid
International


Home entertainment
The attention recession
Business


The future of offices (1)
A hybrid new world
The future of offices (2)
Edifice complexities
Big tech and antitrust
Is Facebook a monopolist?
Bartleby
The perils of PR
The film business
Curtain-raiser
Schumpeter
Raining on the parade
Finance & economics


The economics of lockdowns
Lives v livelihoods
House prices in America
On the simmer
Banks in Hong Kong
Culture clash
Buttonwood
Carrying on
Free exchange
A decade of Chinese lessons
Science & technology


Urban environments
The constant gardener
Medical testing
Virtually real
Palaeoanthropology
A new human species?
Books & arts


Exploration and conquest
The ocean within
New British fiction
Home sweet home
Memory and mourning
In the name of the son
The future of war
Computer says go
Johnson
Check your privilege
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Pandemic lifestyles
Back to the future
Obituary


Milkha Singh
Running as religion

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Cyber-security
Broadbandits
The new age of cyber-attacks could have huge economic costs

The Biden-Putin summit
Worth the air miles
The meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin was a small step forward

Corporate governance
The benefits of foresight
Investors in technology firms too often put up with ropy corporate governance. They may come to regret it

Iraq
Peace gives a chance
Some steps that Iraqis could take towards building a functioning state

Northern Ireland
Protocol problems
Britain and the European Union should seek compromise over Northern Irish trade

Letters

Letters to the editor
On gold and bitcoin, buses, air conditioning, greenwashing, China
Briefing

Cybersecurity
Over there in the shadows
A spate of ransomware hacks highlights the challenges governments face as they try to defend themselves—and attack others—online

Asia


Politics in India
The Modi blues
Politics in South Korea
Sausage party
Covid-19 in Singapore
Fever cabins
Elections in Mongolia
One-horse race
Banyan
Wet winds of change
China


Hong Kong’s media
No news is bad news
Tit-for-tat struggles
Try this for size
Chaguan
Is China serious about the climate?
United States


Joe Biden’s legislative agenda
Look at Joe not go
Pipeline politics
Keystone chimera
Southern Baptists
A house divided
Joe Biden and antitrust
Yes they Khan
The Golden State’s budget
Gavin Newsom’s wild ride
State governors
Checking and balancing
Lexington
And in the blue corner
The Americas


Migration
A destination in its own right
Moving to Mexico
The Latin American dream
Venezuela and Iran
Gunboat diplomacy
Bello
Latin America’s silent tragedy
Middle East & Africa


Iraq
Thirsting for change
Israel
New man in charge
Elections in Ethiopia
Abiy’s coronation
Africa’s orbital ambitions
Taking off
Europe


The Biden-Putin summit
A whiff of détente
Albania
Pyramid scheme
Climate politics in Germany
Grant me greenery, but not yet
Charlemagne
The EU: Made in America
Britain


Brexit and Northern Ireland
Border trouble
Policing
Aftermath of a murder
Diversity and inclusion
Stonewalling
Horse breeding
Neigh laughing matter
Covid-19
The British warning
Retail parks
Clicks and mortar
Military reserves
Not your dad’s army
Bagehot
The two cultures, revisited
International


Poverty
Rich slum, poor slum
Technology Quarterly


Protecting biodiversity
The other environmental emergency
Sensors and sensibility
The new web of life
DNA analysis
Cracking the code
Crowdsourced science
The wisdom of crowds
Ecosystem modelling
Simulating everything
De-extinction
Back from the dead
The role of policy
Bridging the gap
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


SoftBank
The empire of Son
Cosmetics
Down and up in lipstick valley
The ownership of India Inc
Short circuit
Bartleby
Timing is everything
Schumpeter
Track and minefield
Finance & economics


The world economy
The jabs and the jab-nots
Housing in America
A prettier picture
Buttonwood
Chasing the dragon
Risky debt in America
The junk heap
Cyber-heists
The new bank robbers
Free exchange
Stay of execution
Science & technology


Uncrewed aerial vehicles
Drones off the leash
Why Betelgeuse dimmed
Astronomy
Coelacanths
Curiouser and curiouser
Covid drugs
Antibody of evidence
Microecology
A midsummer bug hunt
Motor-neuron disease
A question of sport?
Books & arts


America’s pandemic
On both its houses
Revenge fantasies
Victim, complex
A library burns
The fire this time
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan
Car trouble
Johnson
Only translate
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Computer hardware
Pay to play
Obituary


Edward de Bono
Sideways on

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The green boom
Bunged up
A great green investment boom is under way. Bottlenecks are an underappreciated problem

The G7 summit
Inoculation, inoculation, inoculation
For all their talk about international co-operation, America and its allies are failing the world

Latin America
Peru in peril
A failure to reform is poised to produce a lurch to the far left

Corporate tax
A new architecture
A less loophole-riddled system for taxing multinationals is within reach

Dementia research
False positive
The approval of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s is premature, risky and wrong

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Israel and Palestine, the MOVE, European startups, evictions, Argentina, Yuan Longping, Chinese
Briefing

Conditions for green growth
Missing ingredients
Investments in renewables are ramping up. But bottlenecks in supply chains, site approvals and finance could still hobble deep reductions in emissions

Asia


Afghanistan after America
1989 and all that
Trouble in Sri Lanka
Push the boat out
The pandemic in India
Multiply by six
Vaccine lotteries in the Philippines
Have a cow, man
Banyan
Quad wrangle
China


The legal system
Who watches the watchmen?
Museums
Build big, show little
Chaguan
Foreigners inside the Great Wall
United States


Literacy
The reading wars
Immigration enforcement
Lowering the bar
Portland
Plaid shirts and plywood
Hispanics and QAnon
Conspiracy as a second language
College life
Dorm norms
Lexington
Sinema’s technicolour moderation
Middle East & Africa


Iranian politics
The rise of Raisi
Morocco
Pottery in pieces
Migration
Go west, habibi
Social media in Nigeria
Do not rinse and retweet
Mauritania
Turning over a new leaf
Facing famine in Tigray
Hunger as a weapon
The Americas


Peru
The man with the straw hat
Mexico’s elections
Clipped wings
Nicaragua’s opposition
Democratic deficit
CoronaVac chronicles
Now for some good news
Europe


NATO
Summit season
Naval power
Found at sea
Sex and gender
Trans-national
Narcotics in Europe
Party lines
Italy and climate change
How green is my Draghi?
Charlemagne
The many faces of Sebastian Kurz
Britain


The job market
Something to celebrate
Rural life
Carry on glamping
Sterling assets
Gilt-y pleasure
Northern Ireland
Green gold
Youth justice
Chained to the desk
Politics
Tory trouble?
Climate change
Dirty pretty things
Bagehot
Geordie Tory
International


The globalisation of politics
What’s the Japanese for QAnon?
Business


Inflation in America Inc
Less for more
Supersonic passenger jets
Boom time?
Medical technology
Booster shot
The return of the mega-LBO
Dealing with abundance
Digital markets
New rules of the road
Bartleby
Working hard for the money
Schumpeter
Gadflies in the boardroom
Finance & economics


Asset management
Chasing a pot of gold
Inflation
Paid in China
Commercial property
Vacancies in the Village
Cryptocurrencies
Beating bitcoin
Buttonwood
Going Dutch
Free exchange
Finding the perfect match
Science & technology


Alzheimer’s disease
Faint hopes
Nuclear power
Atoms for greenery
Wildlife conservation
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Mass extinctions
Vanishing act
Space cadets
Jeff Bezos’s flight of fancy
Quantum engineering
Cool thinking
Books & arts


The future of theatre
The turning world
Art and activism
A place in the country
Guns and race
Double standard
Tech fiction
Paradise lost
The trouble with history
Missing pieces
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


American politics
House of unrepresentatives
Obituary


Ganga Stone
Tales of love and death

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The world economy
Geopolitics and business
America and China now dominate global business. That is a wake-up call for other countries

Israel
A chance of renewal
Getting rid of Binyamin Netanyahu is a good way to help Israel clean up its politics

Commercial property
House of pain
As remote working outlasts covid-19, someone has to foot the bill for empty offices

America’s crime spike
Killing reform
What is the best approach to rising violent crime?

Latin America’s giant
Brazil’s dismal decade
Few countries have fallen so fast. To recover, Brazil must recognise what went wrong

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Mexico, covid-19 vaccines, green investing, endowments, Charles Dickens
Briefing

Business in Europe
The land that ambition forgot
Once a corporate heavyweight, Europe is now an also-ran. Can it recover its footing?

Asia


South Korea and China
They’ll never take our kimchi
India’s far-flung territories
Run the jewels
Regulating online content (1)
Shooting the messenger
Regulating online content (2)
Prohibited material
Banyan
Minus the shooting
China


Fertility rules
A third is the word
Infrastructure in Tibet
Fast track to the throne
Chaguan
A century-old party woos the young
United States


Liberals and crime spikes
Reality bites
Congress
Sins of commission
Endless Frontier Act
Political science
Homes with wheels
Vanity projects
Horseracing and drugs
Off-track
Covid racial disparities
All of the above
Measuring poverty
The hunger wanes
Lexington
Who owns the national pastime?
Middle East & Africa


South Africa
The stench of corruption
France and Africa
Atonement
Congo
Mount Nyiragongo’s fury
Israel
Almost there
Jordan
A jingle makes nerves jangle
The Americas


Venezuela
A scofflaw’s offer
Argentina
Rushing for the exit
Europe


Covid-19 in Europe
Hot shots
German politics
Deny the Alternative
Religion in Germany
One roof, three faiths
Italy and the Mafia
The price of success
An interview with Ukraine’s president
The comedian gets serious
Charlemagne
Tiny but less mighty
Britain


Post-pandemic governance
Defending the realm
Horticulture
Turf wars
Public finances
Maturing nicely
Politics
House of Zoom
Schools and covid-19
F for effort
Housing
Spaces inbetween
Culture and politics
The long march
Bagehot
Tolerating intolerance
International


Gender wars
Let’s talk about sex
Special report


Brazil
The captain and his country
The economy
A dream deferred
Corruption and crime
Sliding back
The Amazon
Money trees
Politics
In need of reform
Evangelicals
Of Bibles and ballots
The prospects
Time to go
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


The car industry
Chasing Tesla
Consumer goods and sexual identity
When to mind your business
Entertainment
Feeling animated
Bartleby
Detecting the real bullshit
Chinese armsmakers
The best-laid battle plans
Schumpeter
The firm that saw the future
Finance & economics


Commercial property
Shaky foundations
Oil prices
The clumsy cartel
Hong Kong
Failure to land
Private equity in China
Serving a higher purpose
Divergence, big time
Covid’s unequal effect on companies
Overhauling corporate tax (1)
The twilight of the tax haven
Overhauling corporate tax (2)
Fighting for the scraps
Free exchange
Pace your debts
Science & technology


Inventing the future
Cloning DARPA
Composing by computer
Programmes by programs
Cicadas, insecticides and children
A brooding problem
Forensic science
Where were you on Thursday the 15th?
The origin of watermelons
Sweetness and light
Books & arts


Dutch colonial rule
Return of the repressed
Decision-making
Noise pollution
Johnson
One giant leap for humankind
Going postal
How the West was won
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Algorithmic discrimination
Bias in, bias out
Obituary


Josep Almudéver
The colours of dawn

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Israel and Palestine
Two states or one?
The peace process has become an obstacle to progress

Corporate investment
Innovation nations
Firms are rediscovering their love for investment

The euro zone
Take one for the team
To avoid a two-speed Europe, Germany must learn to live with a little inflation

Ventilation
Fresh thinking about fresh air
It is time to clean up the air in buildings

Mexico
The false messiah
Andrés Manuel López Obrador pursues ruinous policies by improper means

Letters

Letters to the editor
On digital currencies, technology and China, Wyoming, ice hockey
Briefing

Mexico
The puritan from Tepetitán
Few outsiders have noticed how radical Mexico’s president is. Elections on June 6th will determine how deeply—and ruinously—he can transform his country

Asia


Myanmar after the coup
Quaking money-makers
Business in Myanmar
General disorder
Politics in Bangladesh
Back in line
Conservation in Australia
Humpback comeback
Infections in India
The other side
Banyan
Beached
China


Inequality in education
Serve the rich
Wedding rites
Will you mortify me?
Chaguan
China’s revealing Afghan strategy
United States


Texas politics
Red-faced
Policing
Body of evidence
Central America
Foreign domestic policy
Infrastructure year
Build back under budget
Conservation
Wildlife wars
New York
Island mentality
Lexington
Veep stakes
The Americas


Brazil’s politics
Losing traction
Chilean politics
New faces galore
Peru’s election
Commies, crooks and bloodshed
Buttergate
Udder absurdity
Middle East & Africa


Israel and Palestine
A process in pieces
Islam and homosexuality
Muslim pride
Mali
Coup within a coup
Abubakar Shekau
Sixth time unlucky
Europe


Belarus and Russia
An ever deeper union
Central Europe
The spirit of ’68
Turkey
The untouchables
Saving Setesdal
Fiddlers of the fjords
Greater Paris
Beyond the fringe
Charlemagne
How farmers rule Europe
Britain


The BBC
A colossus quietly crumbles
Free-trade deals
Trussed but verify
Dominic Cummings
The messenger shoots
The City of London
A quiet place
Nature writing
Literary Friction
Online justice
You’re on mute, m’lud
Money
Cash is king
Bagehot
Mr Levelling Up
International


Where covid-19 came from
Looking again
The lab-leak hypothesis
Possible, but far from proven
Business


The future of Big Oil
The little Engine that could
E-commerce logistics
Formula races
Money for something
Chinese tech’s online binge
Property deals
Second time lucky
Cruise ships
Cabin fervour
Bartleby
The dangers of decision fatigue
Schumpeter
AT&T in a spin
Finance & economics


Business investment
The coming capex carnival
The euro zone
Dividing lines
Buttonwood
The anti-fiat punto
Covid-19
The best public investment ever
Inflation
House on fire
Property in France
Terminal value
Investing in China
The cross-border chase
Free exchange
Hot stuff
Science & technology


Covid transmission
Surface to air
Pest control
Cas-9-trated
Autonomous weapons
Fail deadly
Water supply
A better fog trap
Books & arts


Literature and memory
Secrets and lies
Satirical fiction
The hard sell
Urban life
Czechs and balances
Censorship
And be damned
Persian music
Stream of consciousness
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Politics and demography
Brahmins v merchants
Obituary


Yuan Longping
To feed the world

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A year after George Floyd
Race in America
A movement to end racial disparities emerged from the murder of George Floyd. How can it succeed?

The economic recovery
The curious case of the disappearing worker
What to do about a labour crunch

Italy’s nationalists
Forgotten, but not gone
The worrying tremors coming from Italy

The green boom
Hot air
Sustainable investing is rife with greenwashing. Genuine transparency, not box-ticking, is the cure

The Horn of Africa
Brothers in blood
Africa’s gulag state is on the march

Letters

Letters to the editor
On tax, crime, Somaliland, energy, diplomacy, Warren Buffett, Germany
Briefing

Israel and Hamas
Mismatched and misbegotten
The violence between Hamas and Israel brings no hope of answers

Asia


The Tokyo Olympics
Faster, stronger, superspreader?
The isolated Antipodes
Tall borders
Archaeology in Laos
Jars on a plain
Politics in the Pacific
Play FAST and lose
Banyan
Vanishing act
China


Traditional education
The return of Confucius
Deniable dissent
Xi who must not be named
Chaguan
New life for an old tradition
United States


The role of the state
Joe se transforme
America unmasked
Off their face
Silicon Valley
Woke at work
The MOVE bombing
Moving on
Children divorcing their parents
Laters, maybe
Lexington
Joe’s modest Middle East medicine
Middle East & Africa


Eritrea’s war
Master of the Horn?
South Africa’s indigenous people
Saving a language with 45 clicks
Cain v Abel
Cowabungle
The Strait of Hormuz
When the ship hits the scam
Morocco and Spain
Testing the floodgates
The Americas


Colombia
Writing on the wall
Non-independent islands
Head v heart
Renata Flores
The way it makes her feel
Europe


Italy
Waiting in the wings
German colonialism
Blood money
Balkan money-laundering
Hide and seek
Poland
The PiS dividend
NATO and phone hacking
Enemy armies with black mirrors
Charlemagne
A model student
Britain


The economy
Hot but not overheating
Covid-19 in Bolton
Variations on a gene
Northern Ireland
All change, please
Theatre design
Box clever
Farmland prices
The bumpier the better
Whitehall reform
The servant class
Public inquiries
Trial of the century
Bagehot
Over there and over here
International


Working parents and covid-19
Take Your Child to Work (Every) Day
Special report


Race in America
What it means to be an American
African-Americans
Things not seen
White Americans
The souls of white folk
Anti-discrimination policies
Black power’s not gonna get your mama
Racial categories
The all-American skin game
Reparations
The freedman’s bureau
The future
The price of the ticket
Business


The streaming wars
Monster of a merger
Hong Kong’s tycoons
Check your privilege
Worker shortages
Paying a pittance is passé
From self-isolation to self-service aisles
After the pandemic boom online retail sales are slowing
Tier-two tech firms
In the shadow of giants
Schumpeter
The name is Bezos. Jeff Bezos
Finance & economics


Climate finance
The green meme
Computer chips
Loading, please wait
Cryptocurrencies
Bit by bit
Buttonwood
Move over VIX
Interest rates
Learning to live without LIBOR
Free exchange
Separation anxiety
Science & technology


Pesticides
Debugging. A new approach
Pomology
Lemon tonic
Packaging
Every last drop
Medical ventilation
Bottom-breathers
Space exploration
Welcome to Utopia
Books & arts


The “Tractatus” at 100
The rest is silence
Johnson
Dictionary blues
Rudyard Kipling
His best beloved
Art and memory in South Korea
Ghost town
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Protest and politics
Price of progress
Obituary


Asfaw Yemiru
The long walk

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The pandemic
Vaccinating the world
Our model reveals the true course of the pandemic. Here is what to do next

Israel and the Palestinians
Stopping the cycle
Only negotiations will bring lasting peace

Supply shortages
The bottleneck economy
America’s boom is increasing worries about an inflation scare

British politics
The wrong sort of conservatism
Boris Johnson wants a big state that crimps civil liberties

Corporate-tax dodging
End the contortions
Corporate-tax gymnastics have reached Olympic gold-medal levels. Time for new rules

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Taiwan, Scotland, Spain, suicide, patents, workers, Dickens, the C-suite
Briefing

The covid-19 pandemic
Counting the dead
Covid-19 has led to between 7m and 13m excess deaths worldwide, according to a model built by The Economist

Producing more vaccines
The insufficient miracle
How can the world increase its vaccine supply?

Asia


The pandemic in Asia
Next in line
Indonesian inoculation
Join the (other) queue
Tradition and the law
Endangered hunters
Covid-19 in India
Let them eat dark chocolate
The Korean peninsula
Silent sigh
Banyan
Malé malaise
China


Football
Own goal
Winter Olympics
The puck stops here
Chaguan
Landing ashore
United States


New York’s mayoral race
Uncertainty and the city
Hacking and ransoms
Post-Colonial studies
Homelessness
The Row row
Opioids
The other epidemic
Evictions paused
Shelter in place
Lexington
The kraken is unleashed
Middle East & Africa


Israel and Palestine
The fire this time
Saudi foreign policy
Prince Charming
Lake Victoria
Finny business
The camel trade
Cloak-and-finger deals
Nigeria’s economy
Stuck in a rut
The Americas


Post-covid economies
A long way down
Hunger in Brazil
An old scourge returns
Vague addresses
Off the grid
Europe


France
A revolution and a rematch
Bulgaria
Battling Borisov
Sweden
Green steel
Pandemic tourism in Turkey
Where did everyone go?
Welfare states
Protection racket
Charlemagne
Whatever it took?
Britain


The government
Winning the peace
Voter identification
The end of innocence
Political geography
The Chipping Norton reset
Northern Ireland
Slaughter in Ballymurphy
Scottish elections
Let attrition commence
Second homes
Get out
Pubs and jobs
The hangover
Bagehot
Uneasy rider
International


Truth commissions
The agony of silence
Business


The space business
Elon Musk’s other company
Bartleby
Mothers of invention
Harley-Davidson
Uneasy rider
Lobbying in Europe
Making money and influencing people
Musical plagiarism
Writ parade
Pharmaceuticals and innovation
Less buck for the bang
Schumpeter
Pay and the pandemic
Finance & economics


Inflation
Jump scare?
Buttonwood
Oversold over here
China’s census
Older and wiser
David Swensen
The holly and the ivy
Corporate tax
The big carve-up
Free exchange
When the Inc runs
Science & technology


Recycling
The metals in the car go round and round
Electric motors
Hydrogen de-bonding
Gender medicine
Second thoughts
Botany
Charismatic megaflora
Hypersonic flight
The rockets’ green glare
Books & arts


Politics and fiction
The character arc of justice
Thomas Becket at the British Museum
Murder in the cathedral
Bitter pills
Patrick Radden Keefe traces the roots of America’s opioid epidemic
Booty haul
When Napoleon stole a Venetian masterpiece
Acid test
Rahul Raina’s debut novel is a rollicking urban adventure
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Fertility
Parks and procreation
Obituary


T.S. Shanbhag
The bookseller of Bangalore

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

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

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

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

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
Leaders

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

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

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

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

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
Leaders

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