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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Twenty years after 9/11: America then and now Sex and geopolitics: Why nations that fail women fail Britain’s care reform: Age and enlightenment Abortion in America: Courting trouble El Salvador: New ideas, old tricks Letters to the editor: On Turkey and the EU, Afghanistan, Kazakhstanis, executives, dudes American foreign policy: Uncontained Cities: Renaissance town Abortion rights: Roads back to Roe Covid-19: Not moving the needle Opioids: Released Religion: Nuns and nones California: Imperfect recall Lexington: Muslims on top Protests in Brazil: A populist pushes back Women’s rights: Judges for choice El Salvador: Crypto creep The covid-19 pandemic: The shoe drops Tackling covid-19: Face: the facts Funeral rites: Hell-care providers Afghanistan: Empty clinics, hungry lions Japanese politics: September surprise Banyan: The shadow caste casts Digital regulation: Codified crackdown Maoist nostalgia: Talkin’ ‘bout a revolution Chaguan: For the few, not the many Guinea: Another one bites the dust Religion: The other Zionism Nigeria: Mega-country, micro-pensions Iran’s new government: Not management material Qatar and Afghanistan: The Taliban-whisperers Germany’s place in the world: Still searching Germany: Gloom and grumbling The future of Spain: Grappling with a Rubik’s cube Charlemagne: The EU Zodiac Paying for the pandemic: Spend with care Architecture: Streets and bricks Protest: Grey radicals Britain’s film industry: Lights, camera, tax breaks Political scandal: Sleazy does it Religion: Go forth and multiply more Bagehot: North of the Tyne is mine Sex and society: The cost of oppressing women Intel: Gelsinger’s opening gambit Big oil in Iraq: Baghdad pay dirt Television: Cable ties DAX redux: Germany’s DAX blue-chip stockmarket index gets an update Retailing: The direct approach Bartleby: Suits v sweatpants Schumpeter: Illumina and the holy GRAIL Covid-19 and cities: The cracked egg Commodities: Higher still Capital markets in China: Home comforts Private equity: Raiding the stakes The global policy cycle: High-wire act Buttonwood: Habitat destruction Free exchange: How the YIMBYs can win The other pandemic: A new hope Covid-19 experiments: A calculated risk Climate change and evolution: My, what a big beak you have Genetics and extinction: Two close shaves Ocean reefs: Hybrid vigour America in the 21st century: The home front Industrious revolutionaries: Tectonic plates Antiquities and the law: Unburied treasure Irish fiction: The trouble with normality Economic data, commodities and markets Sport psychology: All too human Jean “Binta” Breeze: Hearing the voices Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)