Leaders
The Fed that failed
Why the Federal Reserve has made a historic mistake on inflation
What comes next will set the path for the world economy
Somebody else’s problem
Shipping asylum-seekers to Rwanda could wreck the Refugee Convention
The fact that Britain's plan could work is what makes it so dangerous
Give them the tools
The West needs to send Ukraine more and better weapons
The next phase of the war may be harder—and just as important
How to become a porcupine
How to deter China from attacking Taiwan
What Taiwan can learn from Ukraine about resisting invasion
Vested interests
The push for shareholder democracy should be accelerated
It is still too hard for small shareholders to be heard
Letters
On Ukraine and the EU, business ethics, Britain, Hungary, hotels, water
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Russia and Ukraine
Ian Bremmer counts the cost of the war to Vladimir Putin
Russia and Ukraine
Dominic Lieven says empires eventually end amid blood and dishonour
Briefing
“War is here”
What Taiwan can learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Fighting spirit and the right Western arms may stymie a powerful foe
Europe
A new phase begins
Fighting has intensified in the Donbas region
The reticent Mr Scholz
Why Olaf Scholz hesitates to send Ukraine heavy weapons
Finger in the wind
Georgians back Ukraine, but their government is more hesitant
Art and the war
Protests and politics will dominate this year’s Biennale
Britain
The big squeeze
A guide to Britain’s cost-of-living crunch
Red and buried
Sir Keir Starmer’s transformation of the Labour Party
Less shooting, more sequestering
The carbon market drives land sales in Scotland
Really not new York
The NIMBY city
Middle East & Africa
The call of the south
Turkey is making a big diplomatic and corporate push into Africa
Monetising Madiba
Making money from Nelson Mandela’s name
The sour milky way
Why Egypt isn’t open for business
Unhappy royals
Jordan’s troubled king and his bothersome brother
United States
Greener than thou
California wants to lead the world on climate policy
Cottage industry
The case for granny flats
A fight over jurisdiction
Oklahoma takes a tussle with Indian tribes to the Supreme Court
Dust-up with doormen
New York’s well-to-do avoid having to open their own doors
Ketamine clinics
More American clinics are offering ketamine to treat depression
Lexington
James Madison and his slaves
The Americas
The United States of Mexico
Mexican migration has changed America for the better
Enemies with benefits
Can Venezuela help the West wean itself off Russian oil?
Asia
Asia’s Ukraine dilemma
Interests, not values, underpin Asia’s ambivalence about Russia
Moo with the times
Indian cows (and buffaloes) are going online
China
Democracies and the dragon
Chinese political interference has Western spooks worried
The Russian treatment
Could the West punish China the way it has punished Russia?
The blame game
China says imports are causing outbreaks of covid-19
International
Going to court for the climate
Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
Special report
Central banks
The danger of excessive distraction
Emergency response
The perils of expanded balance-sheets
Social issues
When central banks become one-stop policy shops
Environmental concerns
The wish to respond to climate change
Going digital
How central banks are moving into e-money
Geopolitics and war
When central banks face sanctions
Looking ahead
The curse of being too competent
Central banks
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
Commercial brake
Netflix sheds subscribers—and $170bn in market value
Take this, sucker
Big tech wants to bootstrap carbon removal into a big business
Hungry, hungry unicorns
After a fat year, tech startups are bracing for lean times
Finance & economics
The Fed’s mistake
After getting inflation so wrong, can the Fed now get it right?
The hesitant v the urgent
China’s two-front fight to quash the virus and revive its economy
The Roman question
What an end to quantitative easing means for Italian debt
Free exchange
Does high inflation matter?
Science & technology
Human space flight
Spacesuits are showing their age
Launch break
America is ending anti-satellite missile tests
Light entertainment
Why 15,000-year-old art might have been displayed in firelight
Twists and turns
How balls of blackworms avoid the knotty step
Out, dammed spot
A sound way towards reversible vasectomies
Culture
Centennial tributes
The comic genius of Kingsley Amis
The roads to war
“Why We Fight” investigates the origins of war
Home Entertainment
Love and exile in “Letter from an Unknown Woman”
American lives
Paddle alongside Dick Conant in “Riverman”
Johnson
On the origin of languages
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Scorched earth
Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage
Obituary
A taste for freedom