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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon This week’s covers The humbling of Vladimir Putin How misfiring environmentalism risks harming the world’s poor The widespread adoption of AI by companies will take a while Can India educate its vast workforce? How to design better flags Letters to the editor Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the stark lessons from Russia’s wild weekend Mark Galeotti on Vladimir Putin’s self-inflicted wounds The Wagner mutiny has left Putin dangerously exposed Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia? Kyriakos Mitsotakis returns to the Greek prime minister’s office Ethnic Serbs and Albanians are at each others’ throats Spanish voters seem to hanker after stable centrist government European politics has gone from complicated to impenetrable Why short prison sentences in England and Wales are a disaster As Britons grow more unhappy with Brexit, what happens next? Lighthouse lights are losing their sweep The boss of Britain’s spies speaks Are young children in Britain getting smaller? America aims for nuclear-power renaissance Massachusetts is not the gun-control beacon it once was What the rise of student consulting clubs means In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife’s lover The Supreme Court declines to upend American election law Why many American states and cities are changing their flags AI is making Washington smarter What next for Wagner’s African empire? Sierra Leone’s president is re-elected in the first round Settler vigilantes are getting more violent—and Israel’s government is encouraging them After years of talks, indebted Arab states and the IMF are at an impasse AMLO’s austerity has hurt Mexico Guatemala’s election produces a pleasant surprise If Venezuela’s elections were fair, this would be the front-runner Narendra Modi’s ultimate test—educating 265m pupils Why are Vietnam’s schools so good? Ethnic conflict drags on in Manipur in India’s north-east Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs Why China is so keen to salvage shipwrecks in the South China Sea To understand Xi Jinping, it helps to be steeped in the classics A Chinese reality-TV show about farming doubles as propaganda How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny Our early-adopters index examines how corporate America is deploying AI Why Asia’s super-app companies are stuck in a rut South Korea’s government and business are over-close The potential and the plight of the middle manager Indiana Jones and the fedora boom Siemens’s wind-turbine business is blown off course Meet the world’s most flirtatious sovereign-wealth fund The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow New forms of debt restructuring reward bad behaviour Financial sanctions may not deter China from invading Taiwan How to escape China’s property crisis Americans love American stocks. They should look overseas How Russia dodges diesel sanctions The working-from-home illusion fades A new gravitational-wave detection has excited astronomers Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness Used and abused by Russian rulers, Tolstoy has always resisted The curious, anaesthetising charm of Sichuan peppers Seeing Germany’s past through a “global lens” revises it The amazing tale of one of the world’s most prolific art thieves The secrets of Indiana Jones What to read (and listen to) about South Africa Economic data, commodities and markets Sunday brunch is the new Friday night What happened when Russia’s air force attacked Wagner’s rebels? How much power does Alexander Lukashenko have? Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)