Russia’s roulette: The stakes in Ukraine

Vacancy on the Supreme Court

Justice Stephen Breyer retires after almost 28 years on the Supreme Court

New York gun violence

Eric Adams unveils his blueprint to help New York tackle violence

Insider trading

Claims of insider trading in Washington spur efforts to stop it

Sports betting

A ballot fight over sports gambling in California has high stakes

Autopsies and covid-19

America’s elected coroners are too often a public-health liability

Turn on, tune in

Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common

Lexington

Environmental justice in the balance

Mad existence

The IMF cannot solve Argentina’s dysfunction

Talk talk

What a rare word for “sex” reveals about Brazilian Portuguese

Bello

Russia has become a crucial ally of Venezuela’s dictatorship

The enemy of my enemy

Myanmar’s generals have united the country—against themselves

Khyber crevasse

Afghans are more pessimistic about their future than ever

Demographic dance

How Kazakhstan became more Kazakh

Banyan

How sanctions really can improve respect for human rights

Faster, higher, bossier

China is determined to make the Winter Olympics go smoothly

Chaguan

What China thinks of possible war in Ukraine

The juntas and the hunted

A coup in Burkina Faso will help the Sahel’s jihadists

Market preacher

Uganda’s most influential economist has died

UAVs over the UAE

The war in Yemen reaches Abu Dhabi

Lockdown love

Why some Saudi couples welcomed the pandemic

Jailhouse rocked

A prison battle in Syria was a disaster long foretold

Putin’s energy weapon

How will Europe cope if Russia cuts off its gas?

Misplaced sympathy

Germany’s new chancellor dithers in the face of Russia’s threats

Monumental mistakes

As the pandemic raged, Europe bulldozed historic buildings

Road-testing the French dream

Macron’s path to re-election runs through France’s outer suburbs

Charlemagne

Peace and order reign in the EU, but seldom near it

Yes man

Boris Johnson, the prime minister who can’t say no

Buzzkill

The Bank of England is determined to prevent a wage-price spiral

Brexit and Northern Ireland

Little sign of compromise over the Northern Ireland protocol

Silver linings playbook

Britain has long been a leader in genome-sequencing

State of emergency

Brexit and covid-19 have produced a bigger civil service

The City of London

Britain’s newly listed tech firms are taking a beating

Resident weevil

After more than two decades, Britain is finally rid of termites

Bagehot

Boris Johnson is making boring politics look attractive

Game of chiplomacy

Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?

Like smartphones, but lethal

The technology of seeing and shooting your enemies

All the targets, all the time

Synthetic-aperture radar is making the Earth’s surface watchable 24/7

See-through seas

Finding submarines is likely to get easier

Lots of signal, lots of noise

Where to process data, and how to add them up

Fierce contests

Deception and destruction can still blind the enemy

Sources and acknowledgments

Rewebbing the net

Will web3 reinvent the internet business?

Ich bin ein coder

What if all workers wrote software, not just the geek elite?

In short supply

Why supply-chain problems aren’t going away

Bartleby

Purpose and the employee

After the party

When will the semiconductor cycle peak?

Schumpeter

Lakshmi Mittal transformed steelmaking. Can his son do it again?

Forward in fear

The reasons behind the stockmarket turmoil

Material moves

Commodities traders brace for a war in Ukraine

Acquired immunity

How is Omicron affecting the global economic recovery?

Rescue mission

Has Deutsche Bank turned the corner?

MoneyToks

Personal finance is a hit on TikTok

Free exchange

Quantitative tightening is no substitute for higher interest rates

eVTOLs

Flying taxis are lining up for certification

Data privacy

The UN is testing technology that processes data confidentially

Conservation

Save the rhino, save the plant

Photography

A new type of camera

The reflective screen

A history of the BBC makes for a fine history of the British

Finely spun yarns

In “Worn”, a clothes maven finds out where they come from

Home Entertainment

To understand the Roman empire, read Pliny the Younger

Musical posterity

Handel’s contemporaries shunned “Theodora”. But it is a masterpiece

Billionaires and inequality

“Davos Man” is a passionate denunciation of the mega-rich

Johnson

Losing native languages is painful. But they can be recovered

Singing in tongues

What Spotify data show about the decline of English

The time is now

Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change