Leaders
George Floyd’s legacy
Race in America
A year ago George Floyd’s murder gave rise to a movement to end racial disparities. How can that be done?
The curious case of the disappearing worker
What to do about a labour crunch
Across the rich world vacancies are left unfilled
Forgotten but not gone
Italy could soon get a hard-right government
Worrying tremors are coming out of Europe’s most indebted economy
Hot air
Sustainable finance is rife with greenwash. Time for more disclosure
Supposedly green and cuddly funds are stuffed full of polluters and sin stocks
Bloody brothers
Eritrea, Africa’s gulag state, is on the march
President Issaias Afwerki is fanning war and undermining democracy across the region
Letters
On tax, crime, Somaliland, energy, diplomacy, Warren Buffett, Germany
Letters to the editor
Briefing
The cycle of violence
How Israel and Hamas returned to armed conflict
Events in Jerusalem were the spark, but the recrudescence was all but inevitable
Europe
Waiting in the wings
Italy’s populist right looks menacing
Hide and seek
Balkan money-laundering is booming
Armies with black mirrors
NATO increasingly sees its soldiers’ phones as a liability
Britain
Consumer spending and the economy
Britain’s economy is hot but not overheating
The Indian variant
A coronavirus variant is spreading in Britain—but this time is different
Politics in Northern Ireland
Two unionist parties are under new management
Theatre architecture
London is likely to get a swanky new theatre
The civil service
Britain’s civil service remains upper-middle class
Trial of the century
A covid-19 inquiry will scrutinise the British state
Middle East & Africa
The would-be master of the Horn
Eritrea’s President Issaias Afwerki bids for regional greatness
When the ship hits the scam
Why vessels passing near Iran may have trouble staying on course
Testing the floodgates
King Muhammad of Morocco weaponises migration
United States
Joe se transforme
Joe Biden wants to Europeanise the American welfare state
Lexington
Joe’s modest Middle East medicine
The Americas
The way it makes her feel
Renata Flores, a Peruvian singer, embraces her Quechua heritage
Writing on the wall
The riots in Colombia hint at deep problems
Asia
Play FAST and lose
Samoa’s long-serving prime minister is struggling to cling to power
Faster, stronger, superspreader?
Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics is intensifying in Japan
China
Reversing the cultural revolution
Chinese parents are keen on a more Confucian education
Xi who must not be named
How disgruntled Chinese people talk about you-know-who
International
Take Your Child to Work (Every) Day
How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
Special report
Race in America
America is becoming less racist but more divided by racism
African-Americans
Millions of African-Americans remain stuck
Anti-discrimination policies
How to design anti-discrimination policies that actually work
Racial categories
Racial categorisation has grown more complex in America
Business
Monster merger
The Warner-Discovery deal and the future of streaming
Check your privilege
China’s Communist Party chips away at Hong Kong business houses
Paying a pittance is so passé
Why McDonald’s is supersizing its wages
From self-isolation to self-service aisles
After the pandemic boom, online retail sales are slowing
Tier-two tech
How to thrive in the shadow of giants
Schumpeter
Amazon’s future beyond Jeff Bezos
Finance & economics
The green meme
A green bubble? We dissect the investment boom
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The global chip shortage is here for some time
A reference guide
Learning to live without LIBOR
Science & technology
Controlling agricultural pests
RNA, good for vaccines, can also be used as a pesticide
Every last drop
How to get all the toothpaste out of the tube
Medical ventilation
Anal oxygen administration may save lives
Space exploration
China lands a rover on Mars
Culture
The rest is silence
A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
His best beloved
The tainted genius of Rudyard Kipling
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Obituary
The long walk to learning