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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Germany: The mess Merkel leaves behind America in Asia: Resurfacing Energy shortages: Gas puzzlers The Evergrande crisis: Bail-outs and bedlam Multilateral institutions and China: Why Georgieva should go Letters to the editor: On war, Joe Biden, Pakistan, abortion, social media, Aristotle, The global normalcy index, Rembrandt, holidays The new geopolitics of Asia: Enter AUKUS Housing: Build, baby, build Booster jabs: Ahead of the science Covid-19 in schools: Safety in numbers Academic freedom: Free now to speak Policing: The Floyd effect Mississippi’s last abortion clinic: Legal and rare Lexington: Chuck’s modest leadership Canada: A pointless election Salmon farming: Fishing for compliments Pre-Columbian exploration: Medieval mapping Bello: The pen versus the paramilitaries Democracy in Japan: Going round in circles Love hotels in India: In and out The Philippines’ drug war: Duterte harried Press freedom in South Korea: Off-target Banyan: Bamboo-shoots of resistance Chinese-language media: Black, white and red all over Climate-change policy: Low-hanging fruit Chaguan: How AUKUS is viewed from Beijing Inequality in South Africa: Not so black and white Nigeria: Sum of a preacher man Algeria: Bye-bye, Bouteflika Lebanon’s energy crisis: Power politics Germany’s election: The hunt for the Merkel middle Germany: A dash of yellow Russia’s election: The conjuror in the Kremlin The Church of Sweden: Chosen ones Charlemagne: The great sub snub Energy prices: Flaring up Class: Baron net Reviving Labour: North-south divide Gender medicine: Kicking it back downstairs Liberal Democrats: Yellow Tories Hong Kongers: The YouTube migrants Bagehot: Dirty politics Influenza: Northern exposure Germany: After Merkel Public investment: An infrastructure hole The car industry: A troubled road lies ahead The demographic challenge: Desperately seeking people The European Union: Missing Angela already Merkelkinder: The young’s attitudes Foreign and security policy: More assertiveness wanted The future: Reforms, reforms Chipmaking: Neutral but not idle American retail: Two new shocks for shopping Enterprise in Germany: Berlin Inc Universal Music Group: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Business etiquette: New civility Technology in Japan: Do me a solid Bartleby: Stake claims Schumpeter: The Midas of Mordor China’s property woes: The folly of Evergrande Natural gas: Boiling over Transpacific trade: Wiping America’s eye Buttonwood: Just add crypto Investing in property: The new rent-seekers Rich-world corporate debt: A mountain but not a volcano Free exchange: Rules of engagement The future of warfare: Through a shimmering looking glass Footprints in the muds of time: An old lake bed reveals evidence of America’s first inhabitants The evolution of fruit: Finding the right customer The comforts of religion: Faith and fatalism Reason and its discontents: Faulty logic The history of London: What lies beneath Justice on screen: Supposing they’re wrong? Dystopian fiction: Life, the universe and everything Contemporary art: The man behind the curtain Economic data, commodities and markets History and genetics: To the ends of the Earth Clive Sinclair: Invent or bust Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)