Leaders
The trouble with sticky inflation
Investors must prepare for sustained higher inflation
The costs of taming price rises could prove too unpalatable for central banks
The home front
Building Ukraine 2.0
For Russia’s war to fail, Ukraine must emerge prosperous, democratic and secure
Iran’s nuclear programme
America wants to lower tensions with Iran. Good
Now is the time to buy some time
Confidence trap
China’s economic recovery is spluttering. The prognosis is not good
There are lessons from Japan’s long stagnation
Merger crush saga
Blocking the Microsoft-Activision deal would harm consumers
The tie-up promises new kinds of competition in gaming
Letters
On productivity in Latin America, Boris Johnson, New College of Florida, Verdun, banking, Sheikh Hasina, legal speak
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
A sticky predicament
Inflation is as corrosive to investing as it is to the real economy
The failure to quell it quickly will transform financial markets
United States
America’s competition cops
Why Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions
The road most travelled
Pain and pride around a vital American highway
Telling it how it isn’t
As response rates decline, the risk of polling errors rises
Murder on his mind
Nearly all Louisiana’s death-row inmates have filed for clemency
Abortion politics
One year after Dobbs, America’s pro-life movement is in flux
The Americas
It’s still the economy, stupid
Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
No country for journalists
Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
Of buoys and men
Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
Asia
High on their own supply
Can Australia break China’s monopoly on critical minerals?
International yoga day
Narendra Modi’s yoga evangelism
Greenwashing in Seoul
South Korea, having sworn to lead the green transition, is holding it up
China
Conflicting thoughts
When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
Another nationalist obsession
China has its eyes on Okinawa
Dress to impress
Why foreign dignitaries wear red when meeting Xi Jinping
Middle East & Africa
Finding Africa’s voice
African countries are fed up with being marginalised in global institutions
The spreading menace
Jihadists in Congo are extending their reach in the region
An unenriching agreement
America and Iran try to step back from the brink over nukes
Europe
An unspooked spook
Ukraine’s spymaster has got under the Kremlin’s skin
Beefing it up
France’s top general on lessons from the battlefield
Tragedy intervenes
Greece votes, again, following the sinking of a migrant boat
Through the roof
Turkish property prices are soaring
Britain
Britain and Ukraine
Ben Wallace says he is out of the race for NATO’s top job
Abortion rights and wrongs
Should Britain change its abortion laws?
A boom in overseas students
Indians are flocking to study at British universities
International
The great dilemma
NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
Business
Outward bound
America’s plan to vet investments into China
China and Europe
Why is China blocking graphite exports to Sweden?
Work and savoir-faire
Europe’s last finishing school targets anxious executives
Health care
Doctor Walmart will see you now
Finance & economics
Wishful sinking
China’s economy is on course for a “double dip”
Failing to ignite
Against expectations, oil and gas remain cheap
Free exchange
Can the West build up its armed forces on the cheap?
Science & technology
Anything that can’t continue, won’t
The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
Growing business
Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
Culture
Art and regeneration
A sculpture in San Francisco Bay points towards the future
Kooky American fiction
Lorrie Moore’s protagonist goes on a road trip with a dead girlfriend
A dynasty of tyrants
Is North Korea’s propagandist-in-chief also its dictator-in-waiting?
Heaps of trouble
The world’s waste problem is growing fast
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
What goes around comes around
Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
Obituary
Tell me lies about Vietnam
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
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