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Business
How to win the long war • After doing well early in the war, Ukraine is losing ground. What next?
After the shattering of Roe • America needs to find a better way to resolve its thorniest issues
The reckoning • The startup bust is bad, but not as bad as the dotcom fiasco
A new order in Asia • Singapore is on top in Asian finance. The biggest risks to its primacy are at home
Mexico’s shame • Staggering numbers of Mexicans are disappearing. Here’s how to save some of them
Letters
Briefing The long warOn and on • KYIVDoes a protracted conflict favour Russia or Ukraine?
The fallout from overturning Roe • WASHINGTON, DCIn an even more divided America, the battle over abortion goes on
An end-of-term report • NEW YORKThe scope of change flowing from the court’s rulings has been staggering
Win one, lose one • NEW YORKOne branch of government passes gun reform, another rejects a gun law
Where have all the lifeguards gone? • THE JERSEY SHOREA shortage means many pools and beaches may be closed or unmanned
Questions of trust • SANTA FENew Mexico offers a warning of election battles to come
A tragedy in Texas • NEW YORKWhy more migrants have been dying
The courage of a conservative • Even without Donald Trump, says our departing columnist, the Republican Party may be unreformable
100,000 missing Mexicans • PUEBLA AND SALTILLOMany victims of the drug war lie in unmarked graves in the desert
Rain strain • SÃO PAULOMore Brazilians are dying in floods and downpours
Open and shut • SINGAPOREResentment of rich foreigners and worries about inequality complicate the city-state’s role as a financial hub
On the edge • SINGAPOREThe country’s finances are in trouble, but it may yet turn the corner
Feeling the chill • The government celebrates democracy abroad and locks up critics at home
Indomitable valley • BAZARAKNorth-east Afghanistan resumes its fight against an old enemy
Memory loss • Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, a kleptocrat’s son, takes over the Philippines
Three steps to heaven • China still claims to be moving towards communism. Some want it to pick up the pace
Low school • HONG KONGChina is improving its human capital. Gradually
Holes in the great firewall • BEIJINGAs censorship in China increases, vpns are becoming more important
Speakeasies v snitches • SHANGHAIGetting around covid controls in China’s biggest city
Echoes of war • NAIROBIThe return of regional rivalry endangers eastern Congo
Digital stevedores • KAMPALAAfrica’s mobile-money agents face an uncertain future
One shield to guard them all? • JERUSALEMIsrael has joined an unexpected alliance with former foes
Safer at last • DUBAIThe un needs more money to defuse a bomb and avert a famine in Yemen
The great moustache comeback • BAGHDADFacial fur is again a matter of style, not safety
Back in business • MADRIDThe Atlantic alliance holds its most important summit in decades
Nest of vipers • KYIVThe battle for Snake Island
The quiet German • BERLINGermany’s chancellor takes taciturnity to new levels
Changing friends • BELGRADEThe war is forcing pro-Russian Balkan leaders to recalibrate
Jacket, tie, nationalism • PARISFresh faces on the far right and left fill...
