Description:

Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon America’s election: Bidenomics Global housing: The house party returns Famine in Yemen: An avoidable tragedy Germany: Growing up at last China’s countryside: Mass destruction On working from home, land reform, scientific management: Letters to the editor Joe Biden’s economic plans: The pragmatist Reunified Germany, 30 years on: Waking Europe’s sleeping giant Armenia and Azerbaijan: The cauldron bubbles again Hungary: Taking on Viktor Orban Spain: Dancing with death Pop music: The Albanian all-stars Charlemagne: The revenge of strategic yogurt Race: Not black and white Cars in the capital: Road warriors Covid-19 in universities: Freshers’ covid Skills: How the other half learns Lithium: Wheels within wheals Scotland: In their sights Bagehot: We shall fight them on the airwaves Competition law: No contest Somaliland and Taiwan: Outcasts united Kuwait: A king of co-operation Yemen: Unsafe Safer Iraq and covid-19: Out of control Florida and the election: Key largo Supreme Court and the election: Not so fast Election troubles: Rashomon, with ballots Measuring poverty: And the poor get poorer Catholic priests and politics: Render unto Caesar Lexington: The end of the debate Canada: Justin’s timing Mexico: Tabascan onomastics Peru: Patient, don’t heal thyself Bello: The missing local links The coronavirus in South Asia: India v Pakistan v covid-19 Natural resources in Uzbekistan: Colourless, odourless, buyerless Elections in New Zealand: Jacindarella Investing in Myanmar: No time for details Banyan: Always the man of the future Consolidating villages: On Harmony Road Betel nuts: Hard to crack Chaguan: When China fought America Parenting: The rugrat race Virtual realities: Reaching into other worlds Simulation: Reality bytes Hardware: The promise and the reality Health care: Getting better Brain scan: Lord of the Metaverse The future: What is real, anyway? Tata Sons: Endangered species Epic v Apple: Storing up trouble Fracking: Shelling out on shale’s sale A luxury tiff: Letting go lightly Measuring sustainability: In the soup Bartleby: Why we need to laugh at work Schumpeter: All the president’s moolah Global housing markets: The three pillars Evergrande: Not forever grand Digital payments: If you can’t bill them Investment banking: Spoof proof Employment in Germany: Nature v nurture Investment in India: Sticking plaster Buttonwood: Gifts that keep giving Free exchange: Marching bans Hybrids and evolution: Match and mix Mexico’s chroniclers: The other half of history The CIA and the cold war: Original sins Geography and imagination: Water all around Japanese fiction: I don’t belong here Johnson: Justice and just slips Economic data, commodities and markets Wealth and schooling: A rising tide Harold Evans: Attacking the devil Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)