Leaders
The energy crisis
How to fix the world’s energy emergency without wrecking the environment
Even as they firefight, governments must resolve the conflict between safe supply and a safe climate
The man who fell to earth
What Emmanuel Macron should learn from losing his majority
Will the French president be able to get anything done in his second term?
Hungry and angry
A wave of unrest is coming. Here’s how to avert some of it
Soaring food and fuel prices are adding to pre-existing grievances
The ECB’s next headache
How fighting inflation could imperil the euro zone
Relying on the ECB to backstop the currency union is dangerous
Britain’s growth crisis
More of Britain’s pension assets should be used to drive business growth
They are stuck in low-yielding bonds while companies are hungry for capital
Letters
On Colombia, environmental goals, food, the NHS, NewGlobe, family names, the whole self
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Nuclear family
Energy security gives climate-friendly nuclear-power plants a new appeal
To make good on it they have to get easier to build
Europe
Jupiter in descent
Emmanuel Macron loses his parliamentary majority
Running on empty
Is the West supplying Ukraine with enough weapons?
The Putin effect
Italy is the latest victim of Ukraine-related divisions
The great riposte of Córdoba
A stunning victory for Spain’s conservative opposition in Andalucía
Britain
Britain’s growth crisis
Britain is a great place to start a company, but a bad one to scale it up
Science friction
Leaving Horizon would jeopardise research in Britain and the EU
Uncertain shore
The challenge of coastal erosion in Britain
Cultural history
Inside Britain’s national culture collections
United States
Pivot to Asia
Inside the battle for Asian-American votes
Lost in conversion
The Biden administration’s confused embrace of trans rights
Petrol-tax holiday
Biden’s gas-tax break is tempting politically but it’s a bad idea
Lie in a little longer
California pushes back public-school start times
Fission impossible?
How Russia’s war could revive America’s uranium industry
Lexington
The Biden-Harris problem
Middle East & Africa
The rot that spread
The Zondo commission has revealed vast graft in South Africa
Once more unto the booths
Israel’s government collapses, prompting the fifth election in four years
The Americas
Birds, bees and not much else
Latin America lacks decent sex education in its schools
Asia
Illusory extremists
Indonesia’s campaign against Islamists is a ploy to silence critics
A big catch
What a giant stingray says about the Mekong
The latest disaster
An earthquake kills hundreds in Afghanistan
From Moscow with money
Central Asian governments fret over shrinking remittances from Russia
China
The thought police
China’s mental-health crisis is getting worse
Catapulting forward
What to make of China’s new aircraft-carrier
Whose is it?
America and China spar over the Taiwan Strait
The metaphor still holds water
Hong Kong’s most famous floating restaurant sinks
International
From inflation to insurrection
Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
Technology Quarterly
The electric endgame for fossil fuels
Electrifying everything does not solve the climate crisis, but it is a great start
Low-hanging fruit
New technology can help monitor, manage and minimise methane leaks
The long goodbye
Making natural gas emissions-free will be a challenge
Heat, hope and hydrogen
Green gases can help in the shift from fossil fuels to electricity
Climate technology
Acknowledgments
Business
Doctor Google will see you now
Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care
New pharm hands
A billionaire wants to shake up America’s drugs market
Arm twisting and turning
Why everyone wants Arm
Finance & economics
Move fast and break things
Can the Fed pull off a controlled slowdown of the housing market?
Thrown for a loop
Is the euro zone’s doom loop still to be feared?
Whenever it breaks
How inflation and interest rates might affect Italy’s budget
Blockchain reaction
Three mechanisms for crypto contagion
The devil to pay
After a golden decade, fintech faces its first true test
Buttonwood
How attractively are shares now priced?
Islands of price stability
Why is inflation relatively low in some places?
Last man standing
The Bank of Japan v the markets
Green finance
The rights and wrongs of investing in natural gas
Science & technology
Sputnik V vaccination
Are the Russian covid-vaccine results accurate?
A giant bacterium
The biggest bacterium yet discovered lives on Guadeloupe
Death of a mastodon
The Buesching mastodon’s story is imprinted in his ivory
Culture
The case of the “Three Marias”
The women who challenged Portugal’s dictatorship
“The Star-Spangled Banner”
The curious history of America’s national anthem
World in a dish
What Manhattan’s street-food vendors reveal about their city
Pirates of Pyongyang
“The Lazarus Heist” explains North Korea’s wild hacking spree
Ghosts in the machines
“Atoms and Ashes” is a dramatic account of nuclear accidents
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Global grain use
Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is stagflation, and might it make a comeback?
The Economist explains
Why are pilots in Ukraine firing rockets so clumsily?
Obituary
Fight without end