Leaders
Goodbye 1.5°C
The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism
Global warming cannot be limited to 1.5°C
Silva winning playbook
Lula will be Brazil’s next president. Now for the hard part
The country is bitterly divided and short of cash
Business in America
Facebook and the conglomerate curse
Beset by bloating and egomania, big tech would benefit from active boards and investors
Making a meritocracy
American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class
The end of affirmative action in college admissions could be a chance to build a better system
Debt, Japanese style
Japan’s bond-market peg could snap
Financial danger is brewing in the last bastion of low interest rates
Letters
On cocaine, Liz Truss, pop music, antidepressants, diets
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Finance and economics
France’s finance minister on how to fight inflation and preserve stability
America’s 2022 midterms
Republicans should focus on kitchen-table issues, argues Governor Glenn Youngkin
America’s Supreme Court
End life tenure for the Supreme Court’s judges, argues Eric Segall
Briefing
An inconvenient truth
The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target
It needs to face up to the fact
Europe
Women in German politics
Germany’s parliament is more female than it was
Putin’s cold war
Keeping Ukraine from freezing this winter
Matching the right
The Social Democrats hold on in Denmark
Fake news and censorship
As Turkey imposes a harsh “disinformation” law, critics fear the worst
The French hard-right and Russia
Marine Le Pen says sanctions on Russia are not working
Britain
Restlessness and discontent
Britain faces a wave of industrial action this winter
The home office
Why government ministers don’t stick to security rules
Donaldson’s dilemma
The Good Friday Agreement rests on the DUP’s ability to compromise
Patterns of immigration
In Britain, immigrants are moving beyond the big cities
United States
The golden mean
The life and death of California Republicanism
Holistic cow
How affirmative action works in practice
12 years late
Obamacare’s slow victory
Midterm maths
Are Democrats’ chances being underplayed?
Middle East & Africa
The green continent
Africa will remain poor unless it uses more energy
Somali clans
Somali clans are revolting against jihadists
Not quite over the goal line
Qatar races to ready itself for an unusual World Cup
Asia
Open wide your gates
Japan and South Korea are allowing in some foreign workers
The unkindest cut
India’s hair industry is in a tangle
Once more unto the breach
A spate of cyber-attacks is making life miserable for Australians
The colour of Islam
Indonesia’s imams are doing their bit for the environment
China
Preparing for a fight
Xi Jinping wants ready soldiers and loyal generals
Top guns for hire
Former military pilots from the West are being lured to China
Xi’s forever war
The never-ending campaign against graft in China
International
Bread-blocking bandits
How men with guns aggravate global hunger
Special report
The challenge of the age
The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid
To those who have...
Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
The big and the little
Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
Of heat and harvests
A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change
Look around you
The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
Making the money available
Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
Business
Conglomeritis spreads
What big tech and buy-out barons have in common with GE
The blue-tick index
Twitter wants to charge users based on purchasing-power parity
Singing for its supper
Will people pay $8 a month for Twitter?
When the circus leaves town
Fosun’s big asset sale marks the end of an era in Chinese business
Bartleby
How to think about gamification
Finance & economics
The West v Russia
Europe’s energy crisis is very far from over
Double trouble
Even recession may not bring down Europe’s inflation
A few billion between friends
The growing popularity of a strange form of debt diplomacy
Breaking the banks
Xi Jinping promises financial stability. He is not delivering it
Free exchange
How best to bring back manufacturing
Science & technology
Rogue geoengineering
America’s defence department is looking for rogue geoengineers
Exam nerves’ real effect
Anxiety does not cause bad results in exams
Farmer Giles the beetle
Like some ants and termites, ambrosia beetles grow crops
In praise of introduced species
Alien plants and animals are not all bad
Culture
Building his case
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given Istanbul a controversial makeover
Home Entertainment
Josephine Tey’s crime capers probed the dark side of human nature
Contemporary ballet
The life and times of George Balanchine
Film and politics
A documentary follows Bobi Wine on the campaign trail in 2017-21
She make money moves
Two new biographies explore the rise and reign of Janet Yellen
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The calm before the storm
Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Has the Ukraine war killed off the ground-attack aircraft?
The Economist explains
