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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon A wearable revolution: The quantified self Tracking your health: One ring to rule them all Dealing with the data: Killer apps, saving lives Software as treatment: Digital therapeutics Measuring the masses: The pulse of the people Sources and acknowledgments Governing America: How to save the Supreme Court Medicine: The quantified self Inflation, bonds and stocks: The rate fate that awaits China and the world: Cover your bases Press freedom: The gag tightens Britain’s dirty-money problem: Dismantling Londongrad Letters to the editor: On children, China, quadratic voting, art, immigration, Marmite, car plates Russia and Ukraine: Tanvi Madan explains why India is not in Russia’s camp Russia and Ukraine: Senator Bob Menendez says that the work of helping Ukraine has only just begun America’s Supreme Court: A countermajoritarian difficulty Eastern Europe’s economies: Bearing the brunt Austria and Russia: Blowing bridges Moldova: The next target? Spain: Bugging out Ukraine’s war: How things are done in Odessa Charlemagne: Macron 2.0 Britain and the oligarchs: Dirty capital Care homes and covid: Isolated incidence Nutrient neutrality: Bricks and water Gang-related policing: Drill down Post-Brexit Britain: Take back contrôle Bagehot: Bucket-hat Boris Education: Boy trouble Egyptian television: Victors’ version Africa’s fuel market: Pumped dry African economics: The paradox of untapped riches Abortion: The draft seen round the world Weapons supplies: The depleting arsenal of democracy Ohio primaries: Hillbilly eligible California: America, only less so New Orleans: A new, progressive sheriff in town Lexington: Evan McMullin v extremism Miami: Hub for a hemisphere Mexico: Wrecking ball Politics in the Philippines: The name of the father Diseased marsupials: A koalossal problem Electricity in India: Heat and no light South Korean politics: Dangerous waters Banyan: Food fight Foreign policy: Base instincts Emigration: Ready to run Morality courts: Name and shame Chaguan: China’s vision for global security Press freedom is under attack Technology in China: Alibaba and the 40 officials Business in Africa: Ottomanpower War and food: Palm roiled Logistics: Digital decongestants Bartleby: Suntan lotion, laptop charger Schumpeter: Facebook’s retirement plan Quantitative tightening: Braced for impact Chinese stocks: Flee market India’s largest IPO: Selling off the piggy bank Russia’s economy: ‘Tis but a flesh wound Apple Pay: Tap dance Japan’s currency: Land of the crashing yen Lebanon’s banking crisis: Zombie defence Buttonwood: Bond villains Free exchange: Growing Solow Aerial surveillance: The spies in the sky that see backwards in time Aerospace: A second opinion Sheep farming: Turning the worms Sustainable power: Inertial frames Preventing diseases: The GERM of a good idea “The Good Soldier Svejk”: The idiocy of war Shipping shenanigans: Lost at sea A campaigning Japanese film-maker: Caught on camera New American fiction: Trick and treat Johnson: If you dangle, don’t mangle Indicators: Economic data, commodities and markets Abortion in America: Church and choice Franz Mohr: Travels with a piano Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)