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本期文章: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon Climate change: COP-out Coups in Africa: With a putsch and a shove American taxes: Capital pains Chinese women: Clouds over the sky Decentralised finance: The fun in non-fungible Letters to the editor: On food technologies, Top Glove, malarial bed nets, Poland, liberals, email Migration: African odyssey Entrenched partisanship: The Democrats’ disadvantage Virginia’s next governor: Down to the wire Police and politics (1): Minneapolis: A question of safety Police and politics (2): Vaccine mandates: Hands up, no shots Narco-hippos: Wallow on Prostitution: Bringing sex work out of the shadows Lexington: No one loves Joe Biden Chile: Fuelling the flames Digital currencies: Red, white and blue tape Bello: No-growth economics South-East Asia: ASEANgst Civil war in Myanmar: In for the long haul Banyan: BJP v Bollywood Emissions targets: Zero effort Afghanistan’s economy: The next crisis Japanese society: The sun, the moon and the ponytail Feminism: The long wait Media controls: All the news that’s fit to reprint Sudan: The generals strike back African languages: Free clicks The United Nations: Expatonomics Countering Iran: Diplomacy by other means Israel: Bibi’s long bye-bye Turkey: Autumn of the patriarch The EU’s borders: Wire transfer Serbia: A Balkans arms race French acronyms: PFUE? LOL Russia: The new Communists Charlemagne: Going nuclear Fiscal policy: Farewell to austerity The budget: Something ventured Industry: Battery bonanza Earnings: Pay up Benin bronzes: Coming home to roost Privacy: Taking on the taxman Bagehot: Super-green Boris Vaccine passports: Hard pass Stabilising the climate: The biggest picture State of play: The Paris challenge The Asian century’s emissions: Eastern approaches Economics and energy: Flows and fuel Negative emissions: If I could turn back time Veils and ignorance: Governing the atmosphere Tech earnings: Cloudy with a dearth of chips Japanese corporate governance: Poison-pill popping Trouble brewing: America Inc’s earning Retail subscription services: Outside the box Shell: Splitting time? Bartleby: Into battle they don’t go Schumpeter: Mad Men v machines Non-fungible tokens: Through the looking glass Our auction: The NFT party Tax in America: A tale of two profits The energy crunch: Perverse but persistent Buttonwood: Back with a vengeance Housing in China: The long wait for a tax everyone loves to hate Free exchange: The pyjama revolution Private space stations: Placing perches in the sky Avian reproduction: No sex please, we’re condors Renewable energy: A census of solar cells Human rights in China: Xinjiang blues “The Potato Eaters”: Earthy delights Johnson: Write like an Egyptian Europe in the 21st century: Crisis management British fiction: Smoke and mirrors Indicators: Economic data, commodities and markets Electric vehicles: The grid’s the thing Anne Saxelby: Say cheese, America! Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)