The Economist June 11th 2022 5
ContentsContents continues overleafOn the cover
The world this week
8 A summary of political
and business newsLeaders
11 Foundation models
ai’s new frontier
12 The Capitol-riot hearings
High time for prime time
12 Sanctions and Russia
From freezing to seizing
13 South Africa
Scapegoating foreigners
14 Short-sightedness
Protecting the pupils
15 Britain’s economy
A growth crisisLetters
18 On Russia, gun control,
graphene, Tokyo,
American-British politics,
bearsBriefing
21 Artificial intelligence
Bigger gets betterUnited States
25 The insurrection show
26 Pennsylvania’s Senate race
27 Progressivism punished
28 The push for gun reform
30 Foster care
32 LexingtonClimate lesson
from MiamiThe Americas
34 The region’s economies
35 Canada’s politer Trump
36 BelloThe war on drugsAsia
37 The Taliban’s finances
38 Disaster in Bangladesh
39 Indian Islamophobia
39 Energy in South Korea
40 BanyanWhat is ipeffor?China
41 A challenge to the West
42 Post-lockdown spending
44 Grim to be gay
46 ChaguanHotheads
threaten a cold warMiddle East & Africa
47 Xenophobia in
South Africa
49 Africa’s scripted schools
49 A talk with Israel’s pm
50 Gulf cities in the seaThe promise and perils of a
breakthrough in machine
intelligence: leader,page 11.
Foundation models are greatly
increasingai’s potential:
briefing,page 21
Russian assets: freeze or seize?
Permanently grabbing Russian
assets is a seductive idea. It
would also be a mistake: leader,
page 12,and analysis, page 69
Managing in a time of
stagflationHow to be a boss in
an era of high prices and slow
growth, page 63
Britain’s growth problem
Economic decline has become
a chronic British disease: leader,
page 15. The country ’s
productivity problem is getting
worse, page 56.The Tory civil
war is a split between
Roundheads and Cavaliers,
page 58.A party that was
ruthless, pragmatic and efficient
is now cowardly, incoherent and
inept: Bagehot,page 60
The short-sightedness
epidemicSoaring rates of
myopia are storing up health
problems, particularly in East
Asia. Schools should send their
students outside: leader,page 14,
and analysis,page 77
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