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Three letters that won’t save the planet • ESG should be boiled down to one simple measure: emissions
Growth cure • The lessons of life sciences for Britain’s next prime minister
A warning of worse to come • Adaptation will be disruptive and costly. All the more reason to curb emissions
Progress and poverty • Emerging-market crises have become harder to resolve but less of a threat to the world economy
Turkey shoot • Lessons from Turkey on the evils of galloping price increases
Letters
Inflation nation • GAZIANTEP AND ISTANBUL How has the Turkish economy kept growing so fast in the face of runaway inflation?
Tick, tick, boom • WASHINGTON, DC A recalcitrant senator has scuttled Joe Biden’s climate plans. The prospect for federal legislation anytime soon looks faint
The struggle for hearts and minds • WASHINGTON, DC Already, America risks growing weary of Ukraine’s long war
Derailed • CHICAGOAmerican public transport is facing a post-pandemic reckoning
Lifting the veil on Uvalde • A report sheds light on the deadliest school shooting in Texas’s history
Mortal danger for mothers • WASHINGTON, DC Already the worst in the rich world, America’s maternal mortality rate looks set to rise with the end of Roe v Wade
Trumped • The January 6th committee has hobbled Donald Trump, but it has not stopped him
Follow the influencers • BUENOS AIRES AND SÃO PAULOLatin American politicians court social-media stars, often ineptly
Mired in meth • CIUDAD JUÁREZ Illegal drug consumption is increasing
A yearning for Utopia • Latin America is a hotbed of idealistic notions that hinder good government
Feeling the pinch • MANILA AND SINGAPORE The rising cost of living is making South-East Asians hungrier and poorer
Cheers! • Bangladesh loosens its laws on booze
In with the old • COLOMBO The new president must fix a mess which many think is partly his fault
Comeback Khan • ISLAMABAD The ousted prime minister’s party wins a surprise victory in Punjab
One-track mind • Why Indonesia punches below its weight in global affairs
States of mind • NARA What drove Yamagami Tetsuya to target Abe Shinzo?
Tearing down the bamboo walls • HONG KONG China fights a trade war within its own borders
Test after test • BEIJING New subvariants are the latest challenge to the zero-covid policy
Travel bug • Talk of Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan angers China
Lessons from Malcolm X • How Uyghurs became so good at English
Too many to count • The president wants dialogue, but he still keeps his critics behind bars
A reform that makes matters worse • The president is set to enact a sloppy and ominous new constitution
Unsecured green investments • DAKAR Thousands of pricey plants are left unguarded yet unmolested
Adventurous capital • JOHANNESBURG When it comes to raising venture capital, African startups buck the global trend
Game over • ROMEMario Draghi, Italy’s reformist prime minister, resigns after being deserted by his allies. An early election looks likely
When will Odessa’s port be reopened? • ISTANBUL, KYIV AND WASHINGTON Vladimir Putin sends positive signals, but Ukrainians remain sceptical
Common enemies • KYIV Why a regiment of Belarusian dissidents is fighting for Ukraine
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