Schwerpunkt: Putin's botched job - War or not, he has miscalculated

Inhalt:
The world this week
A summary of political and business news 5

Leaders
Russia and Ukraine
Putin's botched job 7
Inflation
The chicken and the peg 8
Free speech
No, Canada 8
British politics
Factional dissipation 9
Drug manufacturing
An injection of reality 10

Letters
On peer review, Myanmar, pay, DNA, the Acropolis, vellum, Ottawa 13

Briefing
The Ukraine crisis
Hot it changes Russia 14
Open-source intelligence
Watching the border 17

Europe
Macron's challenger 21
Election fraud in Hungary 22
German NIMBYs 23
Charlemagne
The EU faces down Poland 24

Britain
Tired old Tories 25
Bagehot
The era of state shrinkflation 28

Middle East & Africa
Chinese firms in Africa 29
Benin's posh pineapples 31
France leaves Mali 31
Tunisia's RoboCop 32

United States
The next mining boom 33
School-board battles 35
San Francisco's recall vote 35
Imperilled post offices 36
Heartland tech hubs 37
Lexington
The fight for Catholic America 38

The Americas
Protests in Canada 39
Bello
Mexico's president 41

Asia
Afghanistan suffers 42
Okinawa's overproof spirit 43
Preventable death in India 44
Succession in Turkmenistan 44
Banyan
CPTPP's flaws 45

China
A shift to conservation 46
Dual nationality 47
Chaguan
Hong Kong's zero-covid loyalty test 48

Business
Russifying tech 49
Mass-market fashion 52
Ed-tech's star pupils 53
Bartleby
Being a leadership guru 54
Schumpeter
The cyber-uninsured 55

Finance & economics
Workers v firms 56
Business districts' woes 57
Citigroup's retail retreat 59
Punting on predictions 60
Buttonwood
Financial crossbreeds 61
Free exchange
Sanctions, the long view 62

Sciene & technology
SpaceX's newest rocket 63
Cloning vaccine factories 66

Culture
Outsiders and India's independence 67
Creatures of the deep past 68
The PayPal mafia 69
A haunting debut novel 69
Restaurant visionaries 70
Ceramics in Detroit 70
Back Story
The Western rides again 71

Economic & financial indicators
Statistics on 42 economies

Graphic detail
Americans cannot agree on the cause of rising homicide 73

Obituary
John Hare, saviour of the wild Bactrian camel 74

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Standort: BSP

Schlagwörter: Wirtschaft Politik Mode EU Putin Technologie Pandemie Inflation Russland Ukraine