Leaders
Get off the fence
What is at stake in Ukraine
Russia wants to impose its brutal vision on its neighbour. That is everybody’s business
Mismanaged democracy
Pakistan’s generals should let politicians run the country for once
The army thinks it keeps the country stable. But it makes Pakistan ungovernable
Don’t panic
Emmanuel Macron did better than it seems in the first round of France’s election
He still has the advantage over Marine Le Pen in the run-off
Partygate, the final episode
Boris Johnson broke his own lockdown rules
But he won’t be forced from office
Letters
On Ukraine, logistics in Africa, food banks, tacos, initials, energy
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
It’s a Cossack thing
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine is defined by self-organisation
Coming together is what Ukrainians do
Rebuilding back better
What will it cost to rebuild Ukraine?
And all sorts of infrastructure will need rebuilding
Europe
Macron v Le Pen, again
The race to be the next president of France enters the final stretch
Britain
Prisons and NIMBYs
Britons don’t want new prisons. They also don’t want old ones to close
No small problem
England’s littlest learners need help to catch up
Douglas Fishbone
An artist suggests a solution to arguments over public statues
Academic pensions
British academics are seeing their retirement benefits cut
Baby you can drive M1 car
The cost of personalised number plates is rising in Britain
Censors and sensibility
The classification of films is changing
Middle East & Africa
Peace or pause?
War-ravaged Yemen gets a truce and dumps a tired president
Keep cool amid the terror
Israel’s government is being tested by a spate of terror attacks
Follow the money
Islamic State is using South African money to build its network
Horror heaped on horror
Ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans may prolong Ethiopia’s civil war
Marmageddon
Why South Africa is running out of Marmite
United States
Taxation in America
In praise of the Internal Revenue Service
Keep the change
Why America keeps delaying student-loan repayments
Read all about it
Startups aim to reinvigorate local news in America
Crime in New York City
Shootings at Brooklyn subway station
The Americas
Losing their religion
Latin America is becoming more secular
Going for growth
Canada’s Liberal government tries to boost the economy
Asia
A new Sharif in town
Shehbaz Sharif is Pakistan’s new prime minister
Going for broke
Sri Lanka says it will stop servicing its foreign debt
No Everest for the wicked
The fallout from Europe’s war reaches the Himalayas
Sold down the river
Thai soldiers are forcing refugees to return to Myanmar
Metabolism, digested
An ode to Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
China
Locked down, fed up
The way Chinese think about covid-19 is changing
Lingua no thank ya
Why China is turning away from English
International
Friends like these
Why so much of the world won’t stand up to Russia
Business
The new atlas
Can Silicon Valley still dominate global innovation?
The ordnance in the arsenal
What other weapons could the West wheel out?
The Russia remainers
Companies fear consumer boycotts
Bartleby
How to sign off an email
Mergers and acquisitions
How dealmaking has been reinvented
Finance & economics
The incubator state
Xi Jinping’s bold plan for China’s next phase of innovation
Pervasive problems
Consumer prices in America rise at their fastest pace since 1981
Default settings
Sri Lanka’s default could be the first of many
Free exchange
What bigger military budgets mean for the economy
Science & technology
Shipping sleuthing
Tracking ships at sea can help catch sanction-busters
Particle physics
Experiments contradicting the Standard Model are piling up
Personalised medicine
Genetic screening can improve drug prescribing
Culture
Indelible or invisible?
Two powerful accounts of Hong Kong’s protest movements
Bonds and bullets
How Abraham Lincoln financed the civil war
Contemporary art
Radhika Khimji and the art of freedom
World in a dish
The joy of gardening
Speculative fiction
Emily St John Mandel’s new novel is her most ambitious yet
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Feeling the heat
In chilly parts of Europe, heatwaves strengthen environmentalism
Obituary
Putin’s court jester