Leaders
One year on
The calamity facing Joe Biden and the Democrats
The president needs to distance himself from his party’s left fringe
Government in Britain
Boris Johnson treats checks and balances with contempt
He seems to think rules are for losers
Climate change and investing
The uses and abuses of green finance
Why the net-zero pledges of financial firms won’t save the world
Abiy’s abyss
Act now to avert a bloodbath in Ethiopia
As rebels march on the capital, ethnic persecution accelerates
Letters
On Dave Chappelle, Spain, lorry drivers, carbon taxes, trees, our NFT auction
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Stuck in place
The Democrats’ social-spending package cannot repair the American Dream
Social mobility has dropped precipitously
Europe
The Mario magic
Italy’s new prime minister has had a good first nine months
The contraption crashes
Snap elections are called after Portugal’s government collapses
Passports postponed
Sixty years of Turkish “guest workers” in Germany
Charlemagne
Why Britain is such a noisy neighbour
Britain
Remember, remember the 3rd of November
Britain’s government goes to disgraceful lengths to protect a Tory MP
Government v judges
Judicial independence is under threat in Britain
Britain’s big moment
COP26 in Glasgow gets off to a chaotic start
Raising the roof
Higher interest rates mean more expensive mortgages
Middle East & Africa
The battle for Addis
Ethiopia’s capital is under threat
Hegemon no more
South Africa is slowly souring on its ruling party
Money for old trees
As leaders pledge to protect forests, Gabon suggests how
The never-ending conflict
Things are heating up in Western Sahara
United States
Problem-solving
America’s maths wars
Physics for politics
Democrats suffer a thorough drubbing at the polls
Lawyers, guns and babies
The Supreme Court hears arguments on abortion and firearms
The devil made me do it
Belief in supernatural evil is a strong predictor of pro-gun beliefs
Medicine and identity
Portrait of a detransitioner as a young woman
The Americas
Asia
Pollution season
India’s toxic air is its most immediate environmental problem
Spilling over
Bangladesh’s religious minorities are under attack
China
Orwellian and proud
Xi Jinping is rewriting history to justify his rule for years to come
International
Business
Passing the buck
Pricing power is highly prized on Wall Street
The audacity of hoops
American basketball’s tricky relations with China
Reinvention as a service
The IT establishment is dressing in new clothes
Bartleby
Why executives like the office
Schumpeter
The supermajors have an LNG problem
Finance & economics
Yield curveball
The bond markets v central banks
Living the high life
Cautionary tales from high-inflation emerging economies
Buttonwood
A quantum walk down Wall Street
Free exchange
Do “greedy jobs” cause the gender pay gap?
Science & technology
Set in green concrete
How cement may yet help slow global warming
Green aviation
Plucking aircraft fuel from thin air
Eel migration
Eels are guided by Earth’s magnetic field
Funerary rituals
A funeral mask painted with human blood
Culture
Nationalism and revolution
A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
The moral of the story
The four women who shook up philosophy
Nigerian literature
After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
Books and social media
BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
Everyone can hear “The Scream”
A palatial museum of Edvard Munch’s art opens in Oslo
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The used-car conundrum
A handful of items are driving inflation in America
Obituary
Music, not words