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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The Biden presidency: Morning after in America Technology and geopolitics: Betting all the chips Vaccination: A marathon ahead Russia: The return Ethiopia’s civil war: Wielding hunger as a weapon Letters to the editor: On vaccination, primaries, bannock, malaria, Malawi, conversation, potatoes The 46th presidency: Good luck, Joe Russia: Into the lion’s den Germany’s Christian Democrats: Steady, as she goes Arms control: Grounded The Dutch welfare state: The fraud that wasn’t Poland: How clams fight pollution Charlemagne: Lessons from the vaccine race Vaccination politics: Restoring the faith Working from home: Spread of the shed Covid-19: Papers, please Schools and lockdown: Steep learning curve Brexit and telecoms: The right to roam Brexit: Going off Retail: The wrong kind of sales Bagehot: Think small Ethiopia: War and hunger Congo’s coltan smugglers: Dodging the “Obama law” Equatorial Guinea and the IMF: Who will blink first? Qatar and Turkey: The special relationship Iran: The not-so-Shia state Tunisia: Free but fed up Egypt: Hot cakes Schools and covid-19: Slight return Educating minority students: Obstacle coursework Vaccinating America: Here’s how Pennsylvania politics: The four-point touchdown The gun lobby: In the line of fire The death penalty: Final throes Lexington: Back to the future Canada: Careless behaviour Brazil: A second wave of misery in Manaus Inoculating Asians against covid-19: A call for arms Assassinations in Afghanistan: Negotiating with terrorists Politics in Vietnam: Hammered and sickled Anime films in Japan: Record slayer Banyan: Pastoral care Relations with America: Xinjiang’s shadow Social media: Wolf taming Chaguan: Seizing the moment, cautiously Messaging services: Global grapevines Chinese youth: Generation Xi The rural-urban divide: Homecoming Patriotism and the party: Partygoers Subcultures: How to rebel in China Views of the world: A bale of sea turtles Values, identity and activism: The lives of others Children of the revolution: Circling the square Sources and acknowledgments Semiconductors: A new architecture Bartleby: Hear, hear Carmaking: Electric shock and awe Business schools: The class of covid-19 Schumpeter: Sberbank’s second pirouette America’s recovery: Fire without fury Inflation: Bottlenecks Wall Street’s banks: Topsy turvy China’s economy: Southern tiger Cross-border crime: Tilting the scales Buttonwood: University challenge Free exchange: Hard lessons Covid-19 vaccines: The time has come Chinese covid vaccines: Shots in the dark Aquaculture: Godzilla the rotifer Making oxygen: Magnetic moment Mice: Country bumpkins and city slickers Human capital: Trouble in the country American foreign policy: Satan’s slips Protest art: Walls have eyes Twisted genius: The lives of others Economic data, commodities and markets Vaccination: Gift of the jab Two voices of sanity: Counsels of imperfection Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)