Bright side of the moonshot: Science after the pandemic
The world this week
Leaders
Science after the pandemic
Bright side of the moonshots
Covid-19 has brought together biomedical technologies that will transform human health
Turkey and emerging markets
Turkey’s economic woes should be a warning for other countries
Not all emerging markets are like Turkey. But they should all beware its example
Knocked out and locked up
A huge share of prisoners have brain injuries. They need more help
It would be best to prevent such injuries in the first place
Mid-life crisis
Bangladesh’s growth has been remarkable, but is now at risk
The government is moving away from the openness and moderation of the past 50 years
Letters
On nuclear power, Namibia, Uber, jury trials, beer, Bob Dylan
Letters to the editor
Europe
In Circe’s lair
A row over land takes Italy back to the Middle Ages
The breakwater
Madrid’s snap election shakes up Spanish politics
Erdogan’s own goal
A debacle at Turkey’s central bank
To have and to hold
The EU supports tighter rules on covid-19 vaccine exports
Charlemagne
Why the EU is still wary of America
Britain
Britain and the European Union
Hopes of a better post-Brexit relationship with the EU are fading
Defying gravity
Nicola Sturgeon survives the Alex Salmond affair
Madame Ecosse
Why Scottish women are coming round to independence
No smoke, no fire
Not even covid-19 has dented firefighters’ resistance to change
Middle East & Africa
Paragon or prison?
The furious debate about Rwanda and its autocratic president
Desperate to leave
Saudi Arabia is struggling to end its war in Yemen
Trouble with the neighbours
Iraqis are getting fed up with Iran
See you again in August
Israel’s election has not broken the deadlock
United States
Violence in America
In 2020 America experienced a terrible surge in murder. Why?
Politics, unions and Amazon
Amazon could get its first unionised workforce in America
Patronage games
Why is it so hard for Joe Biden to hire people?
March meltdown
Snow drought is worsening the American West’s water woes
America’s new religious war
Religious fervour is migrating into politics
The Americas
Fighting the P.1 variant
Brazil’s mismanagement of covid-19 threatens the world
The least bad option
In Peru’s presidential race there is no clear front runner
It was their backyard first
How a Canadian indigenous group could outwit NIMBYs
Asia
The Kolkata clan
While India and China bicker, ethnic-Chinese Indians move away
Downgrading Delhi
India’s ruling party finds a new way to hamstring the opposition
From rags to stitches
As it turns 50, Bangladesh is doing well, despite its politicians
China
Winter of discontent
Will countries boycott China’s Olympics in 2022?
No silver lining
Cloud-seeding will not solve China’s water shortages
International
Technology Quarterly
The year of learning dangerously
Covid-19 has shown what modern biomedicine can do
After a flying start
Testing and tracing could have worked better against covid-19
Finding what works
Well conceived drug trials have saved hundreds of thousands of lives
A nucleic-acid revolution
Novel vaccines have performed remarkably quickly and well
Genome sequencing on an industrial scale
Watching SARS-CoV-2 evolve is fascinating and frightening
Smoother sailing
Safe harbours
Business
An industrial renaissance
America’s long-ailing manufacturers are fired up
Billing, billing
Bilibili, China’s YouTube, wants to be its Netflix
German-Russian business
Deutschland AG’s enduring bet on Russia
A plutocratic makeover
Who are India’s newest billionaires?
Schumpeter
Volkswagen will catch up with Tesla
Finance & economics
A different kind of fluke
Just how anchored are America’s inflation expectations?
Climate change
The impact of green investors
Too much of a good thing?
Trade inflows in Asia fuel debate over currency intervention
After Wirecard and Greensill Bank
Battered Bafin’s new boss Branson
Buttonwood
The Fed and the bond markets
Free Exchange
The economics of falling populations
Scaling the peak
America used to be behind on digital payments. Not any more
Science & technology
Aerial warfare
Aircraft-carriers take to the air
Speciation
How female choice creates new species
Fundamental physics
A route to the much-sought “new physics” may have opened
Culture
Rwanda and its president
A scathing critique of Paul Kagame’s government
The writes of man
War propelled the writing of constitutions
American gangsters
Bugsy Siegel’s life of crime
Shards of light
Listening to Myanmar’s secrets
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
A tarnished silver screen
How a racist film helped the Ku Klux Klan grow for generations
Obituary
The uses of anger