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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The future of money: Down the rabbit hole Vaccine mandates: Needling Capitalism in America: A dynamic do-over Child labour: How to stop children working World trade: Why skippers aren’t scuppered Letters to the editor: On the rise of illiberalism Decentralised finance: Adventures in DeFi-land Blockchains: Building consensus Reducing poverty: When policy works Vaccinations: Biden’s bidding Salt Lake City: Not your father’s Utah Religious objections: Bodies and temples Schools: Robot masters The army: XX-rated Lexington: Beware false doctrines Argentina: Front to back Agriculture in Mexico: Reaping the rewards of trade Bello: The monster hiding in the suburbs Gender and politics: Name dropping Afghanistan: Highway 1 revisited Education in India: Remotely learning The Korean peninsula: Testing times Banyan: The sum of its parts Using the law: Courting influence Evergrande: Rising damp Chaguan: The party’s model emperor Diplomacy in the Middle East: Less battle, more banter Teaching Arabic to Arabs: No book at bedtime Islamism: Out of power Aid and graft: Card declined Child labour: All work and no play Germany’s economy: Spinning the wheels Germany’s left-wingers: The spectre of the ex-Communists French covid-19 passports: Le nudge Russia’s elections: The voters are getting smarter Edible insects: A bug’s life Charlemagne: The Dull Man theory of history The Labour Party: Après le déluge, moi Covid-19: Living with it Regeneration: Levelling up, and up Medicine: Dr WFH British entrepreneurs: The lion and the unicorn Attitudes to immigration: Bending point Vehicle taxes: Heading towards gridlock Bagehot: Rebooting Johnsonism Philanthropy: Shifting foundations American business: Bring out the vim-o-meter Big tech and antitrust: An unEpic victory South Korean business: The other techlash Supply chains: Marginal revolution Bartleby: End of the travelling circus Schumpeter: Who will be next? Container shipping: Perfect storm Inflation: Fighting trim China’s growth (1): Lion dance Buttonwood: The SEC’s modest mission China’s growth (2): The Thales of economics Income inequality: Pie in the sky Free exchange: Nanny state Orbital debris: Seeking bolts from the blue Space tourism: Lights, camera, lift-off Zoonotic diseases: All the better to infect you with Farming and the climate: How to toilet train your cow Capturing carbon: Sucking money from thin air Memory and the Holocaust: The ravine Friendship, fiction and philosophy: Her brilliant friend Johnson: Hitting the like button Economic data, commodities and markets Covid-19 vaccines: As good as advertised Mikis Theodorakis: Soul music Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)