Leaders
Financial markets
A new bear market in American shares
Could the sell-off raise the danger of a recession?
Employee surveillance
How a new age of surveillance is changing work
Look out: your boss may be watching you
Gota must go
The president should resign to save Sri Lanka from collapse
But opposition politicians must also do their part
Genetic screening
Whole-genome sequencing of newborn babies presents ethical quandaries
It can bring medical benefits—but it could also reveal bad news
Letters
On central banks and inflation, China, Ronald Fisher, ketamine, granny flats, email sign-offs
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
A new formula
India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing big economy this year
Can the expansion continue?
Europe
No ports amid the storm
It will be hard for Ukraine’s economy to sustain a long war
A portent or a blip?
The Social Democrats suffer crushing defeat in Schleswig-Holstein
Mélenchon dreaming
A new alliance boosts the left ahead of France’s parliamentary elections
Coping in Copenhagen
“Borgen” returns after a decade to a pessimistic Europe
Britain
Partygate 2
Sir Beer Starmer
The cost of doing business
Businesses in Britain are not as gloomy as consumers. Yet
The aftermath of Brexit
The Northern Ireland protocol could soon spark a new row between Britain and Europe
Berry big problem
Ukrainian seasonal workers pick much of Britain’s fruit
Fall of the Roman empire
Chelsea is the latest Premier League club to fall into American hands
Codes of conduct
The Highway Code tops the bestseller lists, again
Middle East & Africa
Savings and groan
Zimbabwe’s president orders banks to stop lending
Heiferinflation
Why a Zimbabwean firm offers pensions denominated in cows
Copper-bottomed promises
Zambia wants to be a model for resolving Africa’s debt crises
A death in Jenin
Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed covering an Israeli raid
Gas fires in the Sahara
Algeria’s ailing rulers stir tension with Morocco
United States
America’s mid-term elections
Georgia will again be at the centre of fights over electoral fairness
Forced assimilation
A report on Native American boarding schools shows their horrors
The concrete jungle
How Los Angeles hopes to save its endangered mountain lions
Meanness to migrants
Texas’s governor wants to deny education to undocumented migrants
27,080 years of lost freedom, and counting
Exonerations in America have risen, and their pattern is revealing
The Americas
Asia
Saffron nation
How Narendra Modi is remaking India into a Hindu state
The morning after
Sri Lanka has no money and no government. What now?
For whom the teals poll
Australians are fed up with their two main parties
State of emergency
North Korea admits it has an outbreak of covid-19
China
Stay neutral, love the party
China is wary of Hong Kong’s bureaucratic elite
All the way to zero
Shanghai’s covid-19 lockdown is not even close to over
Taming the waters
China’s Grand Canal is full for the first time in decades
Victims, not vectors
The pandemic has made life harder for China’s homeless
International
Connective action
The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
Business
Baby Amazons
Coupang’s high hopes of overcoming high hurdles
Acing the test
China’s zero-covid industrial complex
Snooping at work
Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office
Bartleby
The woolliest words in business
Schumpeter
Activist investors are becoming tamer
Finance & economics
A slow train from China
China’s extraordinary export boom comes to an end
Pix perfect
Digital payments have gone viral in Brazil
Science & technology
Genetic disease
Full-genome screening for newborn babies is now on the cards
Bacterial cunning
A bacterium that tricks the immune system into nurturing it
Science and international politics
Russian and Western scientists no longer collaborate in the Arctic
Culture
Putting the show on the road
Welcome to the unlikely capital of rock’n’roll
World in a dish
Regional foods can contain multitudes of memories
Imperial nostalgia
Empires and emperors are things of the past—in theory
Tricksy fiction
“Trust” explores the power of money, and of storytelling
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Under the radar
