Leaders
The next crisis
What would happen if financial markets crashed?
Look to history for a guide, but know that next time will be different
Minsky moment
Diplomacy has created an opening for detente in Ukraine, but beware a trap
Russia is invoking the Minsk agreement to sow chaos, not to bring peace
Green investors’ filthy secret
The truth about dirty assets
Polluting businesses are moving into the financial shadows
Festive but fraying
India’s democracy is not as healthy as this month’s elections make it seem
It is not just sectarianism that is ailing the body politic
Radical research
Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain
How to make the country’s new innovation agency work
Letters
On Ukraine’s gas pipelines, the Cuban missile crisis, George McGovern, Bangladesh, police alternatives, culture, Boris Johnson
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Local, but vast
The elections in Uttar Pradesh will show where India is heading
Can Narendra Modi’s BJP recreate its successes of the 2010s?
Europe
The chancellor wakes
A beleaguered Olaf Scholz launches a diplomatic offensive
The few, the proud
Spain’s empty middle flexes its political muscles
Drones of their own
Turkey is the arms industry’s new upstart
All the boys and girls
In France’s election young people are all over the map
Britain
Dashed promises
Northern Irish devolution collapses—again
Bare necessities
Britain’s cost-of-living squeeze in four charts
Taming the circus
Boris Johnson attempts to get his government back under control
Hualong, farewell
British regulators have approved a Chinese reactor design
Justice delayed
Unless lawyers are paid better, courts will grind to a halt
Bagehot
The rise of unpopulism
Middle East & Africa
America and Iran
Nuclear talks with Iran enter the endgame
The surveillance state
Did the police in Israel use Pegasus spyware on citizens?
Back with a bump
More African countries are letting pregnant girls stay at school
Older and less wise
The African Union is less effective at 20 than it was at two
United States
Congressional redistricting
Democrats have fared surprisingly well in Congress’s new maps
TikTok nuns
A group of nuns goes viral for Jesus
Party loyalties
Is Donald Trump losing his grip on Republican voters?
Street food
Roadkill is now on the menu in Wyoming
Lexington
Messing up, Biden-style
The Americas
A lopsided romance
Despite thriving trade, China’s relationship with Brazil is weakening
A deadly profession
Four journalists have been killed in Mexico this year
Asia
The ailing body politic
The organs of India’s democracy are decaying
Sidewalk ballet
Bangkok is trying to evict its street hawkers
Quarter-acre heartbreaker
New Zealand’s housing crisis is worsening
China
Injecting urgency
Hong Kong’s old folk remain largely unvaccinated
International
Crisis in Ukraine
How Russia has revived NATO
Business
To the victors, the scraps
Disney, Netflix, Apple: is anyone winning the streaming wars?
Industrial technology
Why Japan’s Automation Inc is indispensable to global industry
Fabs with benefits
In the global chips arms race, Europe makes its move
Income support
How long can America Inc’s profits keep rising?
Slumber party
The sleep-tech industry is waking up
Finance & economics
Rice restraint
Asia is not feeling the same price pressures as the West
How to default on China
China does not always collect its debts on time
Science & technology
The bots in the warehouse
New robots—smarter and faster—are taking over warehouses
Culture
Au revoir tristesse
The strange tenderness of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel
China’s other dreams
To understand China, says Megan Walsh, turn to its literature
Heart in mouth
Rachel Jones is an artist of the moment
Insurgent history
How do radicals find each other—and get heard?
Home Entertainment
“Columbo” shows the benefits of asking just one more thing
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Olympian judgments
How to detect nationalism in winter-sport judges
Obituary
India’s nightingale