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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Impeachment: The reckoning Innovation: The roaring 20s? Social media and democracy: The sound of silence Governing India: Reaping what you sow Decluttering low-Earth orbit: New brooms needed Letters to the editor: On Brexit, inflation, girls, content analysis, the Dutch royal family, rats, Republicans The economics of government R&D: Molecules, missions and money Donald Trump’s presidency: The final chapter Tech and politics: Said the spider to the fly Violence in cities: Where bullets fly Minor-league baseball: Trouble on the farm Texas politics: Stars and gripes Lexington: Conscience of some conservatives Biden and Latin America: A shift of gears Carmaking in Brazil: Driven away Royalty in Indonesia: Strutting sultans Child abuse in the Philippines: Sex with 12-year-olds Kyrgyzstan’s election: Steppe one Agriculture in India: Ploughing on Afghanistan’s bored young: A war over Battlegrounds Banyan: Bonfire of the protocols Village elections: Why bother counting? Dissent in Hong Kong: Masked defiance Chaguan: The stigma of covid-19 Vaccination in the Gulf: Made in China Saudi Arabia: The Line in the sand Sticky authoritarianism: The ghetto strikes back Animating Africa: Move over, Superman France: Colour vision Italy: Just what they didn’t need Germany’s Christian Democrats: Three men in a Rhineland boat Covid-19 and repression in Turkey: One man’s terrorist Greenland: Cloud mining Charlemagne: Cyberpunked The economy after Brexit: Not with a bang but a whimper Rolling out the vaccine: Quick jabs Hospitals: Long covid Covid-19 genomics: An unusual sequence of events The Labour Party: Learning from Joe The civil service: The blob won Contemporary art: Wall power Bagehot: Trump? Don’t think I know him Democracy: Madison’s nightmare Business and technology: Bearing fruit Corporate China: A chill descends Antitrust in America: Visa-free travel Carmakers and big tech: Steel and silicon Bartleby: Creatures of habit Social media in America...: Capitol gains …and in China: Feuding film stars Brands: Rolling in it Schumpeter: Refashion model The global economy: Relapse and recovery Surging commodities: The mountaineers Buttonwood: Bucket list Emerging markets (1): A peak conquered Emerging markets (2): Joining the fray The Big Mac index: Out of joint Free exchange: It’s a bot time Jobs at The Economist: We’re hiring Space flight: The dustman cometh Space-age materials: Hardy, non-perennial Bacteriophages: A hitchhiker’s guide to the microverse Thieving monkeys: Name your price Repurposing drugs: A pair of aces The aftermath of power: Conversations with a weirdo Innovation and the state: Fly me to the Moon A novel of the “dirty war”: Unquiet ghosts Johnson: Fight like hell Economic data, markets and commodities Nutrition and health: The meat spot Brian Urquart: The thin blue line Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)