Leaders
Back to the dark ages
The Taliban are shackling half the Afghan population
Girls are barred from secondary school; women from travelling without a chaperone
The Sunshine State
What America can learn from Florida’s boom
It has important lessons for the environment, politics and the economy
These septic isles
Devolution is making the United Kingdom chronically miserable
Here is how to fix it
Letters
On Russia and Ukraine, California, baseball, grammar, Dostoyevsky, Bagehot
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
The war in Ukraine
Ukraine’s president tells The Economist why Vladimir Putin must be defeated
Surrounded by sandbags and tank traps, Volodymyr Zelensky holds forth
Europe
Energy dependence
Can Germany cope without Russian gas?
France’s elections
Macron still leads a tightening presidential race
Britain
When waste is worth it
The British government made mistakes when sourcing protective gear
Birthing pains
A report castigates the National Health Service
Not even past
The Falklands war resonates 40 years on
Middle East & Africa
Desert-blooming friendships
Israel hosts an unprecedented summit with Arab leaders
New blood begins to simmer
Oman’s sultan breaks with the past in economics
The road not taken
A fragile ceasefire offers hope in Ethiopia
Never-ending party
Kenyan voters face an invidious choice in August
United States
Hold the salt
The promise and pitfalls of desalination
Defence spending
The Biden administration’s defence-spending proposal is a muddle
Lexington: Tripping over himself
What Joe Biden’s gaffe says about his end-game in Ukraine
The Americas
From protester to president
Chilean education lurches to the left
Injudicious judges
Central America’s legal systems are increasingly corrupt
Asia
No country for young women
The Taliban are pushing females out of public life
Roubles in paradise
Russian tourists stranded in Asia are running out of cash
Getting closer
China makes inroads in the Solomon Islands
Out of the frying pan
Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer, has a palm-oil crisis
China
We need to talk about Ukraine
The war makes China uncomfortable. European leaders don’t care
An old problem
Why so many elderly Chinese are unvaccinated
The fire inside
Deciphering a Tibetan pop star’s self-immolation
The dangers of sitting too long
Two British judges quit Hong Kong’s top court
International
Special report
The future of Florida
Like America, the Sunshine State also rises
Miami’s makeover
The bid to make Florida’s most famous city a tech hub
Making policy
A peninsula that makes waves in policy formation
Politics
The colour purple
Red versus blue
Two elections will attract national interest
The environment, water and climate
Florida faces a triple threat to its environment
The way ahead
What Florida can teach America
Special report: Florida
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
Under the influence
The business of influencing is not frivolous. It’s serious
The last lockdown?
What Shanghai lockdowns mean for China Inc
The next wave of outsourcing
A half-a-trillion-dollar bet on revolutionising white-collar work
Bartleby
The case for managerial decency
Schumpeter
Is cancel culture coming to free trade?
Finance & economics
A little help from a friend
America’s gas frackers limber up to save Europe
Diversionary tactics
What can Russia do to sell its unwanted oil?
Before death do us part
The White House wants to close a tax loophole used by the ultra-rich
Science & technology
Alternative energy
Sensors that scavenge their power are all the rage
Anti-anti-tank weapons
How tanks can survive against cheap, shoulder-fired missiles
Ecological science
Invasion of the earthworms
The glymphatic system and dementia
Alzheimer’s researchers are studying the brain’s plumbing
Culture
The menace of mendacity
For modern autocrats, lying is more useful than killing
World in a dish
In praise of mass-market American tacos
Stand-up comedy
Phil Wang’s jokes are seriously funny
Great and smallpox
Catherine the Great was a pioneer of inoculation
Sins of the forefathers
What do people inherit from their ancestors?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Stacking the deck
A wild gerrymander makes Hungary’s Fidesz party hard to dislodge
Obituary
A different kind of secretary