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Contents
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On the cover
The world this week
8 A summary of political
and business news
Leaders
11 War and farming
The coming catastrophe
12 nato expands
Sweden and Finland apply
12 Cryptocurrencies
Sink or swim
13 Immigration
Halfopen borders
14 Travel after covid-
Asterisks and spiderwebs
Letters
18 On abortion, Jaroslav
Hasek, doctors, Celtic,
staff meetings
Briefing
19 The food crisis
Facing famine
United States
23 Democrats and welfare
24 Mass shooting in Buffalo
26 O’Hare’s cargo boom
28 Altruism in Oregon
28 Pennsylvania’s primaries
29 Abortion and the left
30 LexingtonThe Ukraine
consensus
The Americas
31 Colombia’s second city
32 Brazil’s mystics
34 BelloDivided Americas
Asia
35 Myanmar’s resistance...
36 ...and its selfdeception
37 Women in Turkmenistan
37 East Asia’s baby bust
38 BanyanPolitical
attribution
China
39 Xinjiang
40 Cardinal Zen’s cardinal sin
41 Beijing lockdown?
41 Ultranationalism
42 ChaguanA very political
pandemic
Middle East & Africa
43 Trouble at the afdb
46 Media freedom in Ethiopia
46 Lebanon’s shock election
47 The swirl of sandstorms
47 Iran’s false messiahs
War is tipping a fragile world
towards mass hunger. Fixing
that is everyone’s business:
leader,page 11,and briefing,
page 19.How to get Ukrainian
grain to a hungry world?
Page 48.America’s Congress
has maintained bipartisan
agreement on the war by not
talking about it much:
Lexington,page 30
Inside the Putin showHow the
Ukraine war is presented to
Russians, page 56
What next for SoftBank?The
Japanese investment group’s
travails are global tech in a
nutshell, page 59
Graphene and decarbonisation
A wonder material that
promised much but delivered
little may at last have found its
killer app, page 75.The Brazilian
Amazon has been a net carbon
emitter since 2016: graphic detail,
page 85.America’s cleanenergy
industry is stuck. Blame in part
its climatefriendly president:
Schumpeter, page 64
Is China uninvestible?
Stockpickers grapple with the
new geopolitical reality:
Buttonwood,page 71.Even
China’s official economic figures
look bleak,page 68
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