Power and paranoia: The Chinese Communist Party at 100
The world this week
Leaders
New horizons
Investors can no longer take low interest rates for granted
The Federal Reserve is responding to higher inflation. More is on the way
Still going strong
China’s Communist Party at 100: the secret of its longevity
Ruthlessness, ideological agility and economic growth have kept it in power
Must try harder
Closing the world’s schools caused children great harm
They will need help to catch up on lost learning
Radically reasonable
Joe Manchin’s proposed changes to America’s voting laws deserve wide support
They would help fix three significant defects in how national elections are run
Know thyself
Why the African genome project is so useful
To map the ascent of man, begin at the beginning
Letters
On Alzheimer’s disease, crime, art, competition, Vanuatu, Israel, cows
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Europe
Another slap in the face
French voters punish presidential-poll favourites
The nine lives of Lofven
Stefan Lofven becomes the first Swedish PM to lose a no-confidence vote
From barred cells to Barcelona
Spain pardons Catalan separatists
Turkish disgust
“Sea snot” clogs up the Marmara Sea
Crimea and punishment
Russian and British forces square off in the Black Sea
Charlemagne
Belgitude: the art of Belgian zen
Britain
How to spend it
Procurement reforms offer a clue about Britain after Brexit
A Unionist Pootsch
After Brexit, devolution in Northern Ireland is in a parlous state
West Yorkshire Bank
Labour could lose a by-election over the issue of Palestine
A midsummer night’s stream
Eels are in crisis, but hope is coming on-stream
Channel-chopping
Britain proposes—again—to privatise Channel 4
Middle East & Africa
Where human life began
The promise of the African genome project
Islands of democracy
Why Africa’s island-states are generally freer
A bonfire of satire
Nigeria’s government wants to gag the press
A hardliner wins, democracy loses
What Ebrahim Raisi’s election means for Iran and the nuclear deal
Lingering fallout
The long legacy of France’s nuclear tests in Algeria
United States
Biden and the bishops
American bishops want to deny Joe Biden Catholic holy communion
Background noise
An important census product may soon use synthetic data
Kelp wanted
Why New England is going wild for wet weeds
The Foreign Not-in-Service
America says it’s back. But where are its ambassadors?
The Americas
Asia
The downward spiral
Myanmar’s civil war is becoming bloodier and more brutal
No more Mr Mice Guy
Australia mulls biowarfare against unwanted critters
Silenced witness
A rare investigation into a police killing in the Philippines
The stories we tell
Japan’s Ainu people have a new museum. Many feel it omits a lot
China
Vanguard of the non-working class
At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
Farewell, Apple Daily
Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy newspaper has closed
Brought to book
China is clamping down on cram schools
International
Special report
Internal rifts
Trying to heal the party’s wounds
China’s methods of surveillance
Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party’s visibility
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years
China’s corporate sector
The party is eager to expand its influence within business
How to join the party
Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
The Communist Party abroad
As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
The party’s next century?
A future, but with Chinese characteristics
Business
Rocks and hard places
Big miners’ capital discipline is good news for investors
Selling like hot cakes
Investors cannot get enough of Chinese e-grocers
Making short work of it
German firms are conflicted about the Kurzarbeit furlough scheme
Machines and machinations
What Toshiba’s travails say about Japanese capitalism
Bartleby
Workers on the march
Finance & economics
Euro visions
The international role of the euro
Markets and reflation
Global markets adapt to a change in the Federal Reserve’s tone
Buttonwood
A new phase in the financial cycle
The Corn Laws at 175
An anniversary for free traders
Free exchange
Economics needs to evolve
Science & technology
Palaeontology
Dinosaurs once flourished near the North Pole
Tunnel vision
How to detect the enemy when they are underground
Anterior cruciate ligament injuries
ACL injuries are a growing problem
Culture
Culture and crime
Meet “the Indiana Jones of the art world”
America’s Dreyfus?
Julius Rosenberg was a Soviet spy. Ethel’s case is murkier
The idyll and the abyss
A startling bard of environmental disaster
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
Obituary
Man and superman