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TARLETON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 22: In this photo illustration a shopping trolley is filled with groceries at the new Tarleton Aldi store on July 22, 2022 in Tarleton, United Kingdom. Aldi is the UK’s fifth largest supermarket chain and has 950 stores. The new Aldi store is the first in the Preston area. (Photo illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Politics

KAL’s cartoon

American politics

Will Donald Trump run again?

Leaders

The Tory leadership

What kind of prime minister will Britain get?

The war in Ukraine

Stay cool on Kherson

Beware bear traps

A fresh American bull market is under way. Can it last?

Never-ending story

Salman Rushdie and the struggle for free speech

The penniless v the merciless

Myanmar’s shadow government deserves more help

On nudge policies, German energy, careers, Russian colonialism, our summer issue, Don McLean

Letters to the editor

Letters

The 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence

Pakistan’s prime minister on his drive to modernise the country

By Invitation

The 75th anniversary of India’s independence

India’s future will be shaped by its expats, says Gaurav Dalmia

Health

We need to break the taboo around male fertility, says Leslie Schrock

The Nero of Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is unquestionable

Briefing

Stick or twist?

A Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson faces steep odds

Europe

The sharp end

Life in occupied Kherson is grim

No room for doubt

Russia compels religious leaders to show rapturous support for war

Bombs and balance sheets

Germany’s waterways are unsung, but essential

Rich pickings

Turkey plans to pave more of its coastline

Charlemagne

How the EU looks after a decade of horrors

The maverick v the wonk

Parsing the policies of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak

Britain

Eye of the Neidle

In praise of financial professionals who turn into sleuths

Off the books

A proposed change in the law takes aim at unregistered schools in Britain

A grave shortage

London’s cemeteries are selling second-hand graves. They need to

Counting on it

Are Catholics now the majority in Northern Ireland?

From Kampala to the Cabinet Room

50 years on from the arrival of the Ugandan Asians

Bagehot

Why Labour’s silly energy policy is smart politics

A paranoid style

Merrick Garland is not naive about political violence

United States

Primary pugilism

In New York, once-friendly neighbours now battle it out

Alaska’s choice

A new ranked-choice voting system hampers Sarah Palin’s hopes

Responding to floods

America’s government is buying vulnerable homes amid rising flood risk

If pigs could fly

A push for more space for America’s farm animals is thwarted

The Supreme Court

America tussles over a newly fashionable constitutional theory

Lexington

Democrats are wrong to give up on rural America

Winner by a wafer

William Ruto is declared Kenya’s next president

Middle East & Africa

Dead but not forgotten

A dictator’s ghost haunts Angola’s upcoming elections

Follow the leader

Arab central banks are tagging along with America’s rate rises

Go forth and multiply

In Israel, birth rates are converging between Jews and Muslims

Pots of pink gold

A remote Canadian province luxuriates in the global supply crunch

The Americas

Maduro’s mates

Venezuela’s dictator is less isolated than he once was

State organ

Brazil’s monarchy is gone but not forgotten

Five years on

The Rohingyas are being wiped out in slow motion

Asia

Cabinet me-shuffle

A secret government power grab is revealed in Australia

The riches of the earth

A judgment in Europe awards billions to a forgotten Filipino monarchy

Return to form

America and South Korea restart their big military drills

Tasty stick growth

Prices are rising in Japan, but not wages

Banyan

The rising prominence of the Indian Ocean worries the countries in it

No way out

China’s economy is beset by problems

China

Airing grievances

The creative ways Chinese activists protest pollution

Seeing red

Mao-loving websites are in a grey zone between propaganda and dissent

Big Fund, big problems

China’s chips push is mired in corruption allegations

Mean streets

Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities

International

The elephant in the boardroom

Republicans are falling out of love with America Inc

Pragmatic eco-warriors

Germany’s Greens and Deutschland AG cross-pollinate

Lots of cattle, less hat

Can JBS remain the world’s biggest food producer?

Cell-side analysis

Could the EV boom run out of juice before it really gets going?

Bartleby

When to trust your instincts as a manager

Schumpeter

For business, water scarcity is where climate change hits home

American payments

Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

Finance & economics

Cash guzzlers

How to encourage electric-car use

Death of the big bull

The investor whose ascent mirrored India’s

Of industrial hubs and spicy crayfish

Xi Jinping’s economic revolution aims to spread growth

Buttonwood

Investors are optimistic about equities. They have no alternative

Free exchange

Does unemployment really have to rise to bring down inflation?

Air travel

Ways to make aviation fuel green

Science & technology

Metrology

Keeping up America’s standards is the job of NIST

Freedom fighter

Salman Rushdie is a champion of imagination, ambiguity and liberty

Culture

Tracking right

Three books probe Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party

The age of discovery

Damião de Góis and Luís de Camões embodied contrasting world views

World in a dish

The world’s best summertime drink relies on nature’s magic

Sri Lankan fiction

Shehan Karunatilaka returns with another thrilling satire

Back Story

In art, as in life, boundaries blur when a heatwave strikes

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Network effects

Monkeypox has spread rapidly in male sex networks. Will it spread further?

Graphic detail

The Economist explains

Why monsoon season will not solve India’s water crisis

What is a recession?

The joy of small things

Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition

Obituary

Walkies

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The world this week August 20th 2022

From the August 20th 2022 edition