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本期文章: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon Bureaucracy unbound: The triumph of big government Housing: Barbarians at the garden gate The war on terror in Africa: The next Afghanistan Chile: From role-model to cautionary tale The future of the internet: Don’t mock the metaverse Letters to the editor: On vaccine passports, maths, Western Sahara, climate change, Joe Biden, French acronyms State spending: The great embiggening Philanthropy: Scott free The Rittenhouse trial: Provoking questions Schools: Answered prayers Puerto Rico and covid-19: Rich in experience Politics: Spending and voting Health care: Drug deals Lexington: Pete Buttigieg’s impossible job Chile: Pole positions Migrants in Chile: Chilly reception A rose, but no uprising: Cuba’s government smothers a planned nationwide protest Bello: The ambiguities of Peronism South-East Asia’s info-wars: The embrace of the motherland Philippine politics: Succession LGBT in Japan: A matter of some pride Indian government subsidies: A dangerous addiction Banyan: Bear with them Flood-proofing cities: Soaking it up Street art: The grey walls of China Chaguan: A Sino-American ice age Jihadism in Africa: Sahel in a handbasket Uganda and Islamic State: Whodunnit? Israel: Spies against crime Tunisia: Bad smells everywhere Football in Lebanon: Pitch darkness France: Aux larmes, citoyens! Poland and Belarus: Borderline case Georgia: Caucasian degeneration Nuclear weapons in Germany: Atomic jitters Cyprus: Permanent partition? Charlemagne: Marx brothers Emergency care: The dead of winter Racism in sport: Just not cricket Asian swing voters: Blue light The economy: All change Social mobility: What’s in a name? Place-based policy: On the dock Bagehot: Who runs the country? After COP26: Out of reach? Business in China: The Party capitalists Royal Dutch Shell: A simple solution Bartleby: The business phrasebook The art market: Monet, Manet, Money The metaverse architects: If you build it American railways: Chugging along Schumpeter: Walmart gets its bite back We're hiring: Wanted: a new senior business writer China and commodities: Material clout Investment in Germany: Houdini economics Inflation: Land of the falling price Buttonwood: Success and succession House prices: Patch-up job Frequent-flyer schemes: Lifting off Ethiopia’s growth model: Lost promise Free exchange: The inbetweener Covid-19: Reservoir dogs. And cats. And buffalo… Autism: When theories go belly up ASATs and the ISS: Fragmentation grenade French nationalism: The less accused Artificial intelligence: Mechanical minds Marking time: The seven-day itch The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi: Brave new worlds Economic data, commodities and markets Covid-19 testing: An Immensa cock-up F.W. de Klerk: Builder and dismantler Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)