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Customers shelter from the sun under parasols at a cafe terrace area in Lleida, Spain, on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Temperatures in Spain will reach unusually high levels for this time of the year amid a heat wave thats expected to take thermometers above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some parts of the country. Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Politics

KAL’s cartoon

The war in Ukraine

A new nuclear era

Leaders

The coming downturn

A recession in America by 2024 looks likely

Into the unknown

Two erratic presidential candidates put Colombia at risk

Coral reefs

Those in peril in the sea

Put out more bunting

The significance of the Platinum Jubilee

On electoral reform, wearable devices, India, business and pleasure

Letters to the editor

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Russia and Ukraine

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion

By Invitation

Germany and Ukraine

The German chancellor may be turning a corner, says Thorsten Benner

Armageddon used to this

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has eroded the nuclear taboo

Briefing

Fighting in Donbas

Russia threatens to capture Severodonetsk

Europe

Tragedy on Shakespeare Street

How war has changed Ukraine’s second city

Weapons upgrade

America sends advanced missiles to help Ukraine fend off Russia

Olaf Scholz’s dithering is damaging Germany’s international image

For hedgehogs, not road hogs

France is building overpasses to reduce roadkill

Charlemagne

Europe is squabbling—but remains united where it really matters

Separation anxiety

Britain’s Supreme Court takes a conservative turn

Britain

What changed?

Boris Johnson’s position is looking precarious

Architecture and commerce

The fall and rise of the British market hall

A criminal form of justice

An 18th birthday is bad news for children awaiting trial

Gridlocked

Britain’s overstretched electricity grid is delaying housing projects

Business as flusual

What if the flu were treated more like covid, not the other way round?

American supermarkets

Why Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores

United States

Mall makeovers

Changing shopping habits are transforming America’s malls

Hey, big spender

LA’s mayoral race may reveal the limits of progressive politics

Pro-choice priests

The many clergy in America who support abortion rights

Alternative narratives

Gun groups have their own ideas for preventing mass shootings

Policing differently

Since George Floyd’s murder, new ways of policing have been spreading

Lexington

The zombie nuclear deal

Better luck this time

Somalia’s new president vows to beat back jihadists, then talk to them

Middle East & Africa

Roads to hell

Men with guns disrupt a plan to link Congo to east Africa

Bail for the rich, jail for the poor

How Kenyan courts benefit the mighty and punish the needy

More than just business buddies

Israeli firms and tourists are piling into Morocco

Fight the power company

A Peruvian farmer takes on Germany’s largest electricity firm

The Americas

The great rain robbery

Why Peruvian villagers tore down a flood-warning system

A change is gonna come

A leftist ex-guerrilla and a populist face off for the Colombian presidency

Another long march

Imran Khan is jeopardising Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy

Asia

The rights of one man

Kazakhstani voters may revoke their ex-president’s vast privileges

Powering up

China’s e-sports players are challenging South Korea’s dominance

Knock-on effects

Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war pushed poor families deeper into penury

Steaming ahead

Vietnam is leading the transition to clean energy in South-East Asia

Banyan

The luxury of Asia’s malls is no substitute for genuine public spaces

Not so spooky

China’s spies are not always as good as advertised

China

Treasured islands

China’s interest in the Pacific islands is growing

Down with the tyrants

China’s war over sand

Chaguan

Xi Jinping bans grumbling inside the Communist Party

Survival of the bookish

Climate change is harder on less educated people

International

On her CEO’s secret service

Corporate espionage is entering a new era

Patent aggression

Has Russia legalised intellectual-property theft?

Leaning out

Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s second-in-command, leaves the embattled firm

The movies

“Top Gun” flies high, sparking hopes of a theatrical recovery

Hire hurdles

Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?

Bartleby

Do not bring your whole self to work

Schumpeter

Why Proxy advisers are losing their power

The shape of things to come

What America’s next recession will look like

Finance & economics

Crude calculations

Why the oil price is spiking again

Growth v debt

China’s dilemma over a curious breed of financial firm

Balance of payments

The changing American consumer

Buttonwood

The return of the inventory cycle

Free exchange

Should China spend more on infrastructure?

Coral conservation

Corals are threatened by global warming

Science & technology

Testosterone and family life

Fatherless sons have more testosterone

O for the wings of an albatross

Borrowing tricks from birds may result in smoother flights

Conserving amphibians

The health-giving benefits of Jacuzzis—for frogs

The new ventriloquists

ABBA and the rise of the work-from-home rock star

Culture

Stuck in the middle with you

The problems with complex supply chains

New American fiction

“Nightcrawling” is a gritty, accomplished debut novel

Home Entertainment

Arthur Russell was an indecisive, brilliant composer

Banishment

The story of three 19th-century dissidents sent into exile

Johnson

Some languages pay closer attention to family ties than others

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Beating the bounds

America’s congressional maps are a bit fairer than a decade ago

Graphic detail

The Economist explains

Why this Atlantic hurricane season is predicted to be unusually stormy

Why fertiliser prices are soaring

To ride, to win

Lester Piggott had only one aim in view

Obituary

A new era

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The world this week June 4th 2022

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