The Economist - USA (2022-01-15)

The Economist January 15th 2022 3

Contents

Contents continues overleaf

On the cover

The world this week

6 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 Business

Beware the bossy state

10 British politics

Party animal

11 Schools and covid-

Poor students

11 Russia and Central Asia

Standemonium

12 India

Stop inciting murder

13 Financial risk

A good idea, until it isn’t

Letters

14 On the Republicans,

Ukraine, gaming, running

with bulls, corrugated

iron, doors

Briefing

16 Upheaval in Kazakhstan

Central Asia’s bellwether

tolls

Special report:

Business and the state

The new

interventionism

After page 40

United States

19 Refunding the police

20 Diplomacy minus

diplomats

21 Biden’s judges

21 School closures

24 Deadly fires

25 Austin v San Francisco

26 Lexington A failing

presidency

The Americas

27 Latin American startups

28 Brazil’s data blackout

29 Ice hockey in Canada

Asia

30 Indian incitement

31 Why otters make bad pets

32 Sri Lanka’s iffy debts

32 Djokovic v Australia

33 BanyanThe South China

Sea stalemate

China

34 A year of political churn

36 ChaguanSino­American

military risks

Middle East & Africa

37 An eu­funded horror

story in Libya

38 Cycling in the Arab world

39 Ethiopia’s war cools down

40 Russian mercenaries

State intervention in business
is being transformed. That
won’t make it any more
effective: leader,page 9.
After a long liberalising era, the
state has bounced back. That is
not a good thing, argues Jan
Piotrowski in our special
report,after page 40

Boris Johnson, party animal
With the prime minister clinging
on, Britain is in for a rough ride:
leader, page 10.A career of
breaking rules, large and small,
runs into crisis, page 45.The
prime minister, in his own
twisted way, is Britain’s most
honest politician: Bagehot,
page 48

Kazakhstan's steppe in the
darkCentral Asia will remain
unstable, however many troops
Russia sends: leader, page 11,and
briefing, page 16

The dangers of Hindu
chauvinismIndia’s ruling party
is unleashing forces it will not be
able to control: leader, page 12.
Narendra Modi’s government is
ignoring, and encouraging,
hatred of minorities,page 30

Do tips make for better
service?The evidence is
mixed—and attitudes vary
widely across the world,page 49

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