Nov 26th 2022

Frozen out

The world this week

Leaders

Frozen out

Europe faces an enduring crisis of energy and geopolitics

This will weaken it and threaten its global position

Bob Iger’s encore

Disney brings back a star of the past. But its real problem is the script

Hollywood is suffering from the brutal economics of streaming

All we want

A wish-list of centrist proposals for the lame-duck Congress

Good things come in threes. But we’re greedy and have five

Speaking truth to Putin

Russian “offshore journalists” need help, not hindrance

Europe should let them do their jobs

Green competition

COP27 was disappointing, but US-China climate diplomacy is thawing

Great-power rivalry will shape the world’s response to the crisis

Letters

On climate change, Bangladesh

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Russia, Ukraine and South Africa

Bill Browder and Tony Leon argue that money, not morality, dictates South Africa’s support for Vladimir Putin

American politics

A Republican mayor from South Dakota decries the “Trump effect” on his party

Briefing

Chilling prospects

The costs and consequences of Europe’s energy crisis are growing

Despite appearances, the worst is yet to come

Asia

Diplomacy à la Modi

On foreign policy, India is reliably unreliable

Sharm offensive

How Pakistan emerged as a climate champion

Political Malays

Anwar Ibrahim becomes Malaysia’s prime minister

A storm in a satellite dish

Japan’s oddball populists

Banyan

Australia emerges from China’s doghouse

China

Climate for conversation

America and China are talking again about climate change

Covid confusion

China’s response to a surge in covid-19 cases is muddled

Blessed are the meek

China wants to “sinicise” its Catholics

Chaguan

China’s slowdown is hurting the young

United States

Anybody’s thing

America’s federal government has ruthlessly crushed organised crime

Orc invasion

Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan

Cause for celebration

Homelessness is declining in Washington, DC

Bench press

Joe Biden has a chance to rebalance America’s judiciary

Loan to values

Racial discrimination in mortgage lending has declined sharply in America

Surfing the third wave

New York state reckons it’s got cannabis legalisation right

Lexington

Congress should act now to protect Dreamers

Middle East & Africa

We won’t stop

While Iran’s turmoil persists, jitters spread through the region

Sects in the city

Can Bahrain’s division between Sunnis and Shias be healed?

Kicking ahead

How do budding African footballers make it to the top?

Of players and politics

What Saudi Arabia’s football victory means for the Middle East

Chocolate wars

Why the African cocoa cartel is a bad idea

The Americas

A divided country

Mexico’s president wants to develop the poorer south

Crying foul

Jair Bolsonaro’s challenge to Brazil’s election was rejected

Bello

Pablo Milanés, a great musician and a critic of Cuba’s regime, has died

Europe

The pen and the sword

How “offshore journalists” challenge Vladimir Putin’s empire of lies

And the band played on

In Ukraine, living as normal is an act of defiance

The Pope’s nein

Reformist German Catholic bishops get a dusty response from the Vatican

No reforms, no money

The EU is withholding aid to press Hungary to reform

Mr Macron goes to Washington

On a visit to America, France’s president will confront new problems

Charlemagne

European politicians should steal more of their neighbours’ best ideas

Britain

Renewable energy

Why Britain is a world leader in offshore wind

The downturn

Britain’s economic outlook is very gloomy

Memory Lane

What do street names tell you about Britain?

A long road

Scotland’s independence movement suffers a setback at the Supreme Court

Biotechnology

Wales’s trade in leeches and maggots

Ethnicity and success

British Bangladeshis are doing astonishingly well at school

Bagehot

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Tory rule

International

Loss and damage

Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?

Business

The China Dilemma

Multinational firms are finding it hard to let go of China

Countdown to lift-off

Indian startups join the space race

Wages and inflation

Germany’s biggest trade union strikes a deal on pay

Prime of life

Amazon makes a new push into health care

Bartleby

How to do lay-offs right

Schumpeter

What Disney can learn from Elton John

Finance & economics

Chinese capitalism

Xi Jinping’s big bang for Chinese stockmarkets

Banking on them

Western officials need banks’ help to keep money flowing to Russia

Buttonwood

How crypto goes to zero

Hot like Minnesota

Why American unemployment needs to rise

Spendthrift nations

Where the coming housing crunch will be most painful

European finance

Why Europe is scared of quantitative tightening

Free exchange

Weather is again determining economic outcomes

Science & technology

Biocement

Adding bacteria can make concrete greener

Areology

The latest news from Mars

AI and Diplomacy

Another game falls to an AI player

Fishing and conservation

An electrical device on a fishing line repels sharks and rays

A new Roman “emperor”

A name may be missing from the annals of imperial Rome

Culture

Tales of the megacity

Can Tokyo’s charms be replicated elsewhere?

House of horrors

Iran’s women prisoners face down their inquisitors

Metre made

The heights and depths of humanity’s yearning to quantify

World in a dish

The vanishing delights of America’s Jewish delis

A siege in the capital

The forgotten tale of a hostage-taking in Washington in 1977

Back Story

Twenty-five years on, “Titanic” feels like a prophecy

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Fuel prices and excess deaths

Russia is using energy as a weapon

The Economist explains

The Economist explains

What is long-termism?

The Economist explains

How is Ukraine’s software industry weathering the war?

Obituary

A mother’s rage