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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon This week’s cover Ukraine strikes back Apple’s Vision Pro is an incredible machine. Now to find out what it is for California’s reparations scheme is bad policy and worse politics The struggle to kill King Coal How to get rich from commodities Letters to the editor Kim Darroch on the “special relationship” between America and Britain Mick Ryan assesses Ukraine’s counter-offensive Ukraine’s counter-offensive is gathering pace The geopolitical stakes of Ukraine’s counter-offensive Pretending that everything is under control in Russia Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing Europe Turkey’s President Erdogan shifts towards sane economics Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens A huge Norwegian phosphate rock find is a boon for Europe Albania is no longer a bad Balkan joke The difficulties facing Britain’s covid-19 inquiry Why does London have so much sexually transmitted disease? Children’s centres in Britain are crammed again How grassroots schemes are helping England’s non-white cricketers The fading charms of Britain’s historic cinemas Britons still do like to be beside the seaside British politics is littered with fake taboos California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie Georgia, the Peach State, has no peach crop this year Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system Republicans intensify their assault on city governments Montana, climate-change pioneer Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority Botswana, an African success story, looks ever less exceptional Tension in Senegal is set to persist Nigeria’s new president scraps the fuel subsidy The Iraqi militias are copying their overmighty cousins in Iran Who will succeed Shia Islam’s top man? Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive? Latin America’s single mothers are being left behind How India is using digital technology to project power Inside the armed Burmese resistance Despite a crash, Indian railways have an impressive safety record Japan offers Ukraine a lesson in reconstruction China’s new Great Wall China’s guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research The end of Western naivety about China Should you send your children to private school? Apple’s Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it? Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law PwC has disgraced itself down under The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy German bosses are depressed Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch Why employee loyalty can be overrated What TIM’s mega-spin-off reveals about Europe’s telecoms industry Who is keeping coal alive? Japan’s stockmarket rally may disappoint investors Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence Amoral cities are flourishing in a turbulent geopolitical era Regulators put the future of America’s crypto industry in doubt After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge A flawed argument for central-bank digital currencies A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third Two alarming books on the power of America’s Supreme Court A museum in Albania aims to commemorate a painful past A raptor’s mystique inspires “What an Owl Knows” Leïla Slimani’s new novel ranges from France to Morocco “Amongst the Ruins” explores the collapse of civilisations Gestures are a subtle and vital form of communication Eight books you are forbidden from reading Economic data, commodities and markets Smoke blackens the air in America’s north-east How drugs and alcohol have fuelled soldiers for centuries How the breach of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam could affect a nuclear plant Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin’s real mother Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)