Leaders
Midsized mayhem
Why medium-sized autocracies are projecting more hard power abroad
And why this is alarming
Heir today, gone tomorrow?
For India’s opposition to recover, the Gandhis should quit
Single-family dominance repels talent from the Congress party
Letters
Assisted dying, covid-19, Franco-Swiss trains, animal rights
Letters to the editor
Briefing
The menace of midsized meddlers
As America retreats, regional rogues are on the rise
Smaller menaces are throwing their weight around more brazenly than ever before
Europe
Poseidon’s jewels
Riches lie below the waters of Russia’s Arctic
Console sisters
E-sports are trying to encourage more women to compete
Britain
Desperate measures
A mass drowning exposes how Britain fails to manage migrants
A power in the land
Britain’s competition regulator is beefing up
Is “adequate” good enough?
Looser digital rules could damage, not help, Britain’s tech sector
Back to the barricades
Paul Dacre, scourge of the Establishment, returns to its bosom
The new volume crime
Scams and fraud are criminally under-policed in Britain
Middle East & Africa
Picking their shots
Should Africa make covid-19 vaccination a priority?
Zapping the rap
Congo’s government has banned songs that annoy it
Slouching towards an exit
Saudi Arabia cannot find a way out of Yemen
United States
In tech we don’t trust
Joe Biden’s tech policy is becoming clearer
Travelling plight
Thanksgiving is bound to cause a spike in America’s covid infections
Crime and punishment
The killers of Ahmaud Arbery are found guilty
Food sovereignty
Maine’s new “right to food” could sprout legal challenges
Abortion in America
Clashes at America’s abortion clinics are getting noisier
Biden’s tree army
Joe Biden wants to revive FDR’s Conservation Corps
The Americas
Still armed, still dangerous
Five years after Colombia’s peace deal, militias continue to cause havoc
Asia
With enemies like these
Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: a useless opposition
A dictator’s demise
The death of Chun Doo-hwan closes a chapter in South Korean history
Globalising discontent
Antipodean anti-vaxxers are learning from America’s far right
How green was my valley
Ladakh’s pashmina-goat-rearing nomads are dwindling
China
The West’s allure
China’s globetrotting students are getting back on the road
Shout it from the rooftop
Beijing has lots of birds, but few birdwatchers
International
Whose sky is it anyway?
Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers
Business
A continent learns to hustle
Tech investors can’t get enough of Europe’s fizzing startup scene
European telecoms
KKR bids for Telecom Italia in a mammoth private-equity deal
iMac, iPhone, iRepair
As devices morph into services, what is ownership?
Back from the USSR
Vietnam has produced a new class of billionaire entrepreneurs
Party hearty
Booming M&A is smashing records
Finance & economics
Something ventured, something gained
The bright new age of venture capital
Still in the hot seat
What Jerome Powell must do next as Fed chairman
Going for broke
Erdogan’s zany monetary experiment is impoverishing Turkey
Buttonwood
Why the bond market has become jumpier
Free exchange
Measuring the universe’s most important sector
Science & technology
The James Webb Space Telescope
A new look at the cosmos
Culture
Safeguarding art
In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
Scheherazade’s revenge
A new English version of “The Arabian Nights” is the first by a woman
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Social distan-sting
