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The world this week
Reinventing globalisation • Switching to a security-first model of globalisation would make the world more expensive and dangerous
How democracies decay • A vicious circle of economic stagnation, popular frustration and polarised politics offers a warning to the West
The week central banks changed course • With inflation soaring and markets convulsing, the contradictions in monetary policy are being exposed
Ever wider • The EU should declare Ukraine a candidate for membership
Constructive improvements • The property industry has a huge carbon footprint. Here’s how to reduce it
Letters
Chain reaction • NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO
A tale of two NATOs • ON BOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT
Wartime, all the time • WASHINGTON, DC
Truth kills • Shocking drivers with road-death statistics leads to more crashes
Nothing to fear but fear itself? • NEW YORK
Murphy’s law • NEW YORK
More power to them? • CHICAGO
The criminal case against Donald Trump • The January 6th committee is doing the Department of Justice’s work for it
Cryptocracy • EL ZONTE
Here comes Rodolfo • BUCARAMANGA
Ecuador reverts to type • The president has little chance of implementing his reform programme
Take my arms • DELHI
Halfway high • HADANO
School’s out • Unable to send Rohingyas home, Bangladesh circumscribes their lives
Pride and groom • ANTIPOLO AND BANGKOK
General unease • Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand’s military ruler, is on the back foot
Non-interfering mediation • China’s diplomats are trying to broker peace in foreign conflicts. Just don’t expect them to propose solutions
In need of guardrails • SINGAPORE
The new normal • BEIJING AND SHANGHAI
Real problems • BEIJING
Wrong’uns, not rights • China blames a brutal assault on gangsters, rather than sexism
Change you can’t believe in • WASHINGTON, DC
Gobbling up whatever is left • Bashar al-Assad is hollowing out what remains of his ravaged state
The son also rises • ENTEBBE
Cutting costs • DAKAR
Old-model army • Russia’s poor use of tanks in Ukraine is no reason to write off the weapon
→ The Russian T-72 tank was conceived to be compact and cheap to produce, but the design has fatal drawbacks
The unclubbable in pursuit of the unwelcoming • PARIS
The $500bn question • The EU has begun debating how to fund the reconstruction of Ukraine
Keeping faith • KYIV
A new yawn • BERLIN
Losing his grip • PARIS
NATO’s loose cannon • Is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey more trouble to the alliance than it is worth?
A population puzzle • DIDCOT
Forms, frustration and fans • BELFAST
Traffic flights • DUNKIRK
Under the hood • The RMT is Britain’s most potent trade union as well as one of its oddest
The great Teslafication • How supply-chain turmoil is remaking the car industry: learning from Elon Musk
Bowled out • SINGAPORE
Human capital in the 21st century • Modern executives are different from their forebears
Work, the wasted years • Logging in, deleting emails, mistyping things. It all adds up
The too-much-of-everything store • Amazon’s problem is most obvious in its hinterland
Eight days that shook...