Leaders
Morning after in America
The outlook for America looks grim, but that could quickly change
What to expect from a Biden presidency
Technology and geopolitics
The struggle over chips enters a new phase
The age of their manufacture in China could be beginning
Infections v injections
The marathon of covid-19 vaccination
Even as governments sprint to get inoculate programmes going, they need to keep an eye on what comes next
Palace intrigue
The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny
It takes courage to expose the corruption of Vladimir Putin’s regime
Famine crimes
Ethiopia’s government appears to be wielding hunger as a weapon
A rebel region is being starved into submission
Letters
On vaccination, primaries, bannock, malaria, Malawi, conversation, potatoes
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Making America again
After the chaos of the Trump era, what can Joe Biden hope to achieve?
Joe Biden faces multiple crises as he takes office
Europe
Into the lion’s den
Alexei Navalny returns to Moscow to face Vladimir Putin
Steady, as she goes
Armin Laschet, the man who might succeed Angela Merkel
The fraud that wasn’t
A benefits scandal sinks the Dutch government
Invaluable bivalves
How clams help keep Polish water clean
Britain
Working from home
How the spread of sheds threatens cities
Papers, please
Britain belatedly beefs up its borders
Online teaching
Second time round, schools are better at lockdown learning
Brexit and trade
Delays to fish and meat exports are not just teething problems
Middle East & Africa
Smugglers’ paradise
Why it’s hard for Congo’s coltan miners to abide by the law
Fear and famine
After two months of war, Tigray faces starvation
A special relationship
How Qatar and Turkey came together
Who will blink first?
Equatorial Guinea is still waiting for its IMF bail-out
The not-so-Shia state
Disenchanted Iranians are turning to other faiths
Free but fed up
Despite democracy, Tunisians riot
United States
Obstacle coursework
Why reopening schools in minority neighbourhoods is hard
In the line of fire
What next for the bankrupt NRA?
The four-point touchdown
Republican state lawmakers aim to change Pennsylvania’s constitution
Lexington
Back to the future
The Americas
Careless behaviour
The pandemic has exposed a crisis in Canada’s care homes
Misery in Manaus
A Brazilian city thought it had herd immunity. It was wrong
Asia
Negotiating with terrorists
Assassinations rise in Afghanistan amid negotiations
Hammered and sickled
Vietnam’s Communist Party is in a weaker position than it seems
International
Where everybody knows your name
Messaging services are providing a more private internet
Special report
The rural-urban divide
The gap between China’s rural and urban youth is closing
Patriotism and the party
How nationalism is shaping China’s young
Subcultures
How to rebel in China
Views of the world
As attitudes to the West sour, China’s students turn home
Values, identity and activism
Individualism reigns in China—and with it, more social responsibility
Children of the revolution
Might freedom-seeking youths rise up again?
Business
A new architecture
Chipmaking is being redesigned. Effects will be far-reaching
Electric shock and awe
A Tesla bull debates a Tesla bear
Business schools
The MBA class of covid-19
Schumpeter
Sberbank’s second pirouette
Finance & economics
Fire without fury
Will Joe Biden’s fiscal stimulus overheat the American economy?
Topsy turvy
Have banks now got too much cash?
Southern tiger
China’s regional gap is worsening
Tilting the scales
A Swiss money-laundering probe raises disturbing questions
University challenge
Property investment: some hard truths
Science & technology
Covid-19 vaccines
How fast can vaccination against covid-19 make a difference?
Chinese covid vaccines
China’s jabs may have an important role
Making oxygen
How to separate oxygen from air using magnets
Culture
China’s hidden crisis
The biggest obstacle to China’s rise is struggling rural children
Satan’s slips
The history of America’s relationship with Iran
Walls have eyes
Itvan Kebadian’s art of protest
Ripley’s creator at 100
A poisonous person, Patricia Highsmith was an enduring writer
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Gift of the jab
The smallpox vaccine took decades to bear fruit
Obituary
Counsels of imperfection