CDU later? Germany’s topsy-turvy election
The party of Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor, is flailing in polls. We ask why the race has been so unpredictable and what outcomes now seem probable. In America, obtaining a kit to make an unt...
31 Aug 202120min
Banks note: the Jackson Hole meeting
The message for central bankers at the annual jamboree: relax a bit about inflation and be loud and clear about plans to stanch the cash being pumped into economies. The halt to an Albanian hydroelect...
30 Aug 202121min
The terror of their ways: Kabul and global jihadism
The suicide-bombings that have killed scores of people signal how the Taliban will struggle to rule Afghanistan; meanwhile the rest of the world’s jihadist outfits are drawing lessons from the chaos. ...
27 Aug 202121min
To all, appearances: Israel’s PM in Washington
Naftali Bennett’s first face-to-face meeting with President Joe Biden will look calm and co-operative. But in time, sharp differences will strain the “reset” they project today. Indonesia’s anti-corru...
26 Aug 202119min
Delta‘s force: Australia’s covid plans crumble
For a while, closed borders and strict contact-tracing held the coronavirus at bay. What lessons to take now the Delta variant has broken through in the region? The European Union once had few prosecu...
25 Aug 202120min
How you like them: Apple’s decade under Tim Cook
The tech firm has ballooned under his leadership, but Mr Cook’s next ten years will not be as rosy as the first. We ask how he can maintain Apple’s shine. Activists, academics, journalists, now labour...
24 Aug 202120min
Annexed question, please: Ukraine’s summit on Crimea
President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to draw attention to Russia’s continued occupation of Crimea, and its failure to look after the region’s citizens. A new report attempts to put numbers to the “enfor...
23 Aug 202119min
Value-free investing: China and Afghanistan
The Taliban’s takeover is a boon for China’s propaganda machine: America is tired, its policies disastrous, its values a distraction. Meanwhile China has its own interests in the country. New research...
20 Aug 202121min
