The Economist - UK (2022-05-07)

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Contents

Contents continues overleaf

On the cover

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

11 Governing America

Saving the Supreme Court

12 Medicine

The quantified self

14 Inflation and markets

The rate fate that awaits

14 China and the world

Cover your bases

15 Press freedom

The gag tightens

16 Britain’s dirty money

Dismantling Londongrad

Letters

18 On children, China,

quadratic voting, art,

immigration, Marmite,

car plates

Briefing

20 America’s Supreme

Court

A crisis of legitimacy

Technology Quarterly:

The quantified self

How data can help you

live longer

After page 44

Britain

23 Dirty money in London

26 Covid­19 in care homes

26 River pollution

27 Policing drill music

28 Britain turns European

30 BagehotThe 1990s redux

Europe

31 The war and eastern

Europe’s economies

32 Austria cools on Russia

33 Spyware in Spain

33 Russia menaces Moldova

34 Odessa defies the war

36 CharlemagneMacron 2.

United States

37 Beyond the Supreme

Court’s bombshell

38 The arsenal of democracy

39 Ohio’s Senate primaries

40 California’s demography

41 New Orleans’ new sheriff

42 LexingtonEvan McMullin

The Americas

43 Miami

44 Mexican democracy

Middle East & Africa

45 Arab schoolboys

46 Rewriting Egypt’s history

47 Fuel shortages in Africa

48 Africa’s market failures

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SchumpeterWhat

happens when the 

world’s biggest social

network becomes its 

most doddery? Page 65

To avoid breaking the Supreme
Court, the nine justices need to
restrain themselves,page 11.A
crucial institution faces a crisis
of legitimacy: briefing,page 20.
How the end ofRoe v Wade
will affect American politics,
page 37

The Fed: more rate pain awaits
Tighter monetary policy is
causing gyrations in financial
markets. Worse is coming:
leader, page 14.Fed holdings of
Treasuries are about to shrink.
Is the world’s most important
financial market ready? Page 66

Alibaba and the 40 officials
Can Chinese big tech learn to
love Big Brother? Page 60

Why dodgy money loves
LondonBritain’s capital is a
magnet for tainted money. What
can be done about it? Leader,
page 16,and analysis, page 23

How data can help you live
longerWearable technology is
transforming health care. Do not
delay the revolution: leader,
page 12,and Technology
Quarterly, after page 44

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