JANUARY
Laws to catch human-rights abusers are growing teeth
For all Donald Trump’s efforts, Joe Biden’s victory will stand
America’s former defence secretaries sound the alarm over Trump
Europe has fallen behind on covid-19 vaccination
Trump’s supporters storm the Capitol to block the transfer of power
Trump’s legacy – the shame and the opportunity
Why Donald Trump will serve out his remaining term in office
Who should get the jab?
The expulsion of Donald Trump marks a watershed for Facebook and Twitter
For the first time, a career diplomat is to lead the CIA
Commodity prices are surging
Donald Trump is impeached for inciting an attack on the Capitol
Donald Trump’s reckoning
Why a dawn of technological optimism is breaking
Germany’s Christian Democrats choose Armin Laschet as their leader
Donald Trump faces an array of legal trouble when he leaves office
Alexei Navalny returns to meet arrest and imprisonment in Russia
Will Joe Biden’s fiscal stimulus overheat the American economy?
The outlook for America looks grim, but that could change quickly
The struggle over chips enters a new phase
Messaging services are providing a more private internet
How fast can vaccination against covid-19 make a difference?
Can China’s long property boom hold?
India’s protesting farmers breach the walls of Delhi’s Red Fort
The gig economy challenges China’s state-run labour unions
The world is facing an upsurge of nuclear proliferation
The wind-power boom set off a scramble for balsa wood in Ecuador
Buy American is an economic-policy mistake
Shades of Minsk, as Russians again protest against Putin
FEBRUARY
Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested as Myanmar’s generals seize power
Colombia’s peace tribunal issues a crushing judgment against the FARC
Can Amazon’s next boss fill Jeff Bezos’s supersized boots?
The real revolution on Wall Street
The pandemic could undercut Africa’s precarious progress
Myanmar’s coup turns the clock back a decade
Joe Biden prepares to leave his mark on the federal judiciary
Donald Trump will probably be acquitted of inciting an insurrection
America Inc has survived the oddest year in modern times. What next?
How well will vaccines work?
“Genocide” is the wrong word for the horrors of Xinjiang
Donald Trump’s second impeachment ends in a second acquittal
Britain has reduced its carbon emissions more than any rich country
Why China’s Didi can succeed where Uber has struggled
Why SPACs are Wall Street’s latest craze
The freeze in Texas exposes America’s infrastructural failings
How America can rid itself of both carbon and blackouts
The pandemic made the world realise the importance of human contact
Little is known about the effects of puberty blockers
Duty-free retail is finding new ways to grow
America’s ICBMs are ageing. Does it still need them?
Vladimir Putn and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have formed a brotherhood of hard power
Prices in Europe’s carbon market, the world’s biggest, are soaring
The rules of the tech game are changing
The CIA blames MBS for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
The rivalry between America and China will hinge on South-East Asia
China is mulling changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system
MARCH
Get ready for more bond-market scares
A billion-plus covid-19 shots in 2021. Can Serum Institute do it?
Can Joe Biden get America out of the Middle East?
How to make a safety net for the post-covid world
After the tsunami: What happened to the girl from Fukushima?
Rupert Murdoch prepares to hand over his media empire
Only America can break the deadlock between Canada and China
Oil markets prepare for lofty prices and restrained supply
The world’s consumers are sitting on a pile of cash. Will they spend it?
Joe Biden’s stimulus is a high-stakes gamble for America and the world
How to renew America’s democracy
Are vaccine passports a good idea?
What Leonardo Del Vecchio wants to do in his late 80s
EU countries pause AstraZeneca’s covid-19 jab over safety fears
Joe Biden faces a humanitarian crisis at the southern border
China’s markets are shaking off their casino reputation
How to deal with China
Economic pressure is unlikely to force Myanmar’s junta to retreat
The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
America used to be behind on digital payments. Not any more
UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops
American officials question AstraZeneca’s vaccine results
Bright side of the moonshots
Covid-19 vaccines have alerted the world to the power of RNA therapies
China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton
Myanmar’s army kills more than 100 protesters in a single day
Why Joe Biden isn’t afraid of debt any more
Message in a bottleneck
APRIL
How Europe has mishandled the pandemic
China wants to make its Christians more Chinese
India is recording more cases of covid-19 than any other country
House prices in the rich world are booming
Janet Yellen calls for a global minimum tax on companies. Could it happen?
Riding high in a workers’ world
America’s boom has begun. Can it last?
New means of getting from A to B are disrupting carmaking
The war against money-laundering is being lost
Joe Biden gives up on the war in Afghanistan, leaving a weak ally
CEO activism in America is risky business
The political CEO
From United Kingdom to Untied Kingdom
How spooks are turning to superforecasting in the Cosmic Bazaar
Oil supermajors’ mega-bet on natural gas
Europe’s top football clubs plan a Super League of their own
Derek Chauvin is found guilty of murdering George Floyd
Europe’s Super League scores a spectacular own goal
India’s giant second wave is a disaster for it and the world
India is struggling with a catastrophic second wave
And the winner is… who cares?
What history tells you about post-pandemic booms
How TSMC has mastered the geopolitics of chipmaking
The magical realism of Tesla
China’s population appears to be shrinking
The most dangerous place on Earth
India’s second wave of covid-19 feels nothing like its first
MAY
Health care and workplaces must adjust for long covid
Berkshire Hathaway’s questionable performance and governance
Will going digital transform the yuan’s status at home and abroad?
New technology has enabled cybercrime on an industrial scale
Facebook’s oversight board says Donald Trump can be kept off – for now
India’s national government looks increasingly hapless
The digital currencies that will transform finance
Nicola Sturgeon’s nationalists retain power in Scotland
SpaceX, a Tesla for the skys
The Republican Party prepares to oust Liz Cheney from a top job
China’s census shows its population is nearing its peak
Only negotiations can bring lasting peace to Israel and Palestine
The pandemic’s global death toll far exceeds official estimates
Ten million reasons to vaccinate the world
A worrying new wave of covid-19 is hitting South-East Asia
How to thrive in the shadow of giants
Joe Biden wants to Europeanise the American welfare state
The Warner-Discovery deal and the future of streaming
The Tokyo Olympics are “safe and secure”, insist Japanese politicians
Even with a ceasefire, Israel and Hamas will not stop fighting each other
What to do about a labour crunch
How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
Race in America
An investment bonanza is coming
Joe Biden orders his intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of covid-19
Voters should curb Mexico’s power-hungry president
Israel and Palestine: Two states or one?
Israel’s opposition has finally mustered a majority to dislodge Binyamin Netanyahu
China allows its citizen to have a third child
JUNE
Twilight of the tax haven
How to be the next Tesla
The new geopolitics of global business
Jair Bolsonaro is not the only reason his country is in a ditch
A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
How America Inc is coping with rising inflation
America’s wary approval of an Alzheimer’s drug offers hope to millions
Foreign asset managers are eyeing China’s vast pool of savings
Soaring factory prices in China add to global inflation fears
How green bottlenecks threaten the clean energy business
The bottlenecks which could constrain emission cuts
The G7 sketches a development-finance initiative to counter China’s
Uneven vaccination rates are creating a new economic divide
China’s climate sincerity is being put to the test
Hard truths about SoftBank
America and Russia return to traditional great-power diplomacy
To stop the ransomware pandemic, start with the basics
Few things are harder than building a state in Iraq
Economically, covid-19 has hit hard-up urbanites hardest
Covid-19 has stymied governments’ efforts to collect data
At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
Russian and British forces square off in the Black Sea
China’s Communist Party at 100: the secret of its longevity
The race to build a commercial fusion reactor hots up
Big miners’ capital discipline is good news for investors
As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”
Office re-entry is proving trickier than last year’s abrupt exit
How to assess the costs and benefits of lockdowns
Does America’s hot housing market still need propping up?
JULY
The long goodbye to covid-19
The real risk to America’s democracy
The unvaccinated are at risk as evolution accelerates the covid-19 pandemic
Central banks face up to the daunting task of quitting QE
Didi’s removal from China’s app stores marks a growing crackdown
Which airlines will soar after the pandemic
America leaves Afghanistan on the brink of collapse
America’s war in Afghanistan is ending in crushing defeat
AI is transforming the coding of computer programs
Will Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic jaunt boost space tourism?
Investment in fintech booms as upstarts go mainstream
The Cuban government cracks down on protesters
Biden’s new China Doctrine
Devastating floods in Germany warn Europe of the dangers of warming
China Inc’s new inconspicuous expansion
Will the economic recovery survive the end of emergency stimulus?
Jeffrey Bezos goes into space
Sport is still rife with doping
A 3C world has no safe place
Boris Johnson marks his second anniversary in Number 10
As moratoriums lift, will America face a wave of foreclosures and evictions?
As food prices soar, big agriculture is having a field day
Robinhood takes its IPO to the masses
Lexington: Republican delusion about the Capitol riot hits a dangerous new low
Unrest and economic underperformance haunt the emerging world
The prospects for developing countries are not what they once were
The pandemic has exacerbated existing political discontent
AUGUST
The pandemic has made homelessness more visible in many American cities
What if bitcoin went to zero?
A year after the Beirut blast: still no bottom to Lebanon’s crisis
At 70, the global convention on refugees is needed more than ever
The promise of open-source intelligence
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information
Vaccine mandates are spreading
The IPCC delivers its starkest warning about the world’s climate
The technology China wants
Angela Merkel’s successor could be left, right or Green
Xi Jinping’s assault on tech will change China’s trajectory
Afghanistan is disintegrating as the Taliban gain momentum
Britain’s courts are in a mess
America may pay dearly for defeat in Afghanistan
A refugee crisis looms after the Taliban take power in Afghanistan
Afghanistan under the Taliban will be less isolated than the West had hoped
The debacle in Afghanistan is a grave blow to America’s standing
From Saigon to Kabul: what America’s Afghan fiasco means for the world
The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started
Apple has had a successful decade. The next one looks tougher
Time is running out for America and its allies to evacuate Kabul
Blasts at Kabul airport make the Afghan evacuation grimmer still
Suicide bombings hit Kabul as America scrambles to leave
The mess in Afghanistan exposes Britain’s foolish security policy
America bombs Islamic State. Once it quits Afghanistan, can it still?
The economy that covid-19 could not stop
SEPTEMBER
Will Joe Biden pay a political cost for America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan?
The Supreme Court green-lights a near-total abortion ban in Texas
Covid-19 may have killed 15m people
Is a self-driving car smarter than a seven-month-old?
The new economics of global cities
The Taliban storm Afghanistan’s last bastion
Intel’s turnaround and the future of chipmaking
Boris Johnson deserves credit for reforming Britain’s social care
Why nations that fail women fail
The real lessons from 9/11
America and the world – The real lessons from 9/11
A perfect storm for container shipping
Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?
America is substantially reducing poverty among children
Why America needs vaccine mandates
The beguiling promise of decentralised finance
French fury over the American-Australian sub deal
Two new shocks for American shopping
China throws a wrench into a transpacific trade pact
Justin Trudeau keeps his job, but loses some lustre
What are the systemic risks of an Evergrande collapse?
The mess Merkel leaves behind
Measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 have also fended off flu
Tight election leaves German politics on knife edge
Are investors becoming warier of Chinese assets?
Japan readies itself for an unpredictable ballot
Boris Johnson dodges the blame for Britain’s petrol-pump nightmare
China’s new reality is rife with danger
OCTOBER
The military draft is making a comeback
Shein exemplifies a new style of Chinese multinational
The age of fossile-fuel abundance is dead
Facebook flounders in the court of public opinion
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
Hydrogen’s moment is here at last
Iraq’s election could be worthless if few turn out to vote
Governments fall as the EU battles corruption
Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web
The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids
One policy accounts for a lot of the decarbonisation in Joe Biden’s climate plans
The first big energy shock of the green era
How long can China’s zero-covid policy last?
Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online
Samsung Electronics wants to dominate cutting-edge chipmaking
How kidnappers, zealots and rebels are making Nigeria ungovernable
A real-time revolution will end-up the practice of macroeconomics
Enter third-wave economics
Servicing and repairing electric cars requires new skills
The market for non-fungible tokens is evolving
America’s firms and the shortage economy
Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing
How the pandemic has changed the weather in the technology industry
The agenda for the COP 26 summit
Joe Biden’s big, difficult week
NOVEMBER
Even after a weak patch, America’s economy is still in high gear
The bond markets v central banks
Ethiopia’s capital is under threat
The calamity facing Joe Biden and the Democrats
Pricing power is highly prized on Wall Street
The Democrats’ social-spending package cannot repair the American Dream
Congress passes Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill
China attempts to clean up its sleaziest regional banks
Repression in Putin’s Russia is making young activists more defiant
Russia’s new era of repression
The welcome spread of assisted dying
Russia is stoking tension with Ukraine and the EU
China seeks to extend its clout in commodity markets
Talks between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden do not herald a thaw
MacKenzie Scott is shaking up the world of giving
The world is entering a new era of big government
The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse shows America’s divide over guns
Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
Governments are not going to stop getting bigger
American inflation: global phenomenon or homegrown headache?
The bright new age of venture capital
Germany’s new government holds great promise
Adventure capitalism
`How Europe should deal with covid-19
Countries are scrambling to stop a new covid-19 variant
Three threats to the global economic recovery
Jack Dorsey goes Square – leaving Twitter at a time of his choosing
DECEMBER
BioNTech’s boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron
What the Omicron variant means for the world economy
Omicron looks ominous. How bad is it likely to be?
The buried boon to the wealthy in the Democrats’ tax plan
Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
Why America’s Omicron response is so weak
A lack of chargers could stall the electric-vehicle revolution
Behind the chaos and scandal of Boris Johnson’s government lies stasis
Early data on Omicron show surging cases but milder symptoms
Why high inflation will persist in America well into the new year
Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
Something has broken in Boris Johnson’s government
Which is the Economist’s country of the year for 2021?
How we chose this week’s cover image
What the spread of Omicron means for the world
Joe Manchin kills the Build Back Better Act, Joe Biden’s ambitious legislative package
1843 magazine – I live in a zero-covid world
Turkey’s president launches a plan to shore up his plummeting currency
Bridgespan Group: the most powerful consultants you’ve never heard of
Retracing Julius Caesar’s path through France
North-south antipathies endure around the globe
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the best kind of troublemaker
Which economies have done best and worst during the pandemic?
Big law will keep getting bigger in the 2020s
How to think about the threat to American democracy
What to expect from Eric Adams
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