The Economist - USA (2022-02-12)

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Contents

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On the cover

The world this week

5 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

7 Financial markets

When the ride ends

8 The Ukraine crisis

Minsky moment

8 Green investing

A dirty secret

9 Democracy in India

Festive but fraying

10 Radical research

Healthy curiosity

Letters

12 On Ukraine’s gas

pipelines, the Cuban

missile crisis, George

McGovern, police

alternatives, culture,

Boris Johnson

Briefing

14 Uttar Pradesh’s elections

A key test for Narendra

Modi

United States

17 How elections are really

rigged

19 Feud over a synagogue

19 TikTok nuns

22 Signs of trouble for Trump

22 Eating roadkill

23 Carjackings galore

24 LexingtonMessing up,

Biden-style

The Americas

25 Brazil and China

26 Mexican journalists

27 BelloModernism in Brazil

Asia

29 India’s democratic drift

30 Bangkok’s street hawkers

31 Costly Kiwi houses

31 Philippine politics

32 South Korean weapons

33 BanyanKishida Fumio’s

“new capitalism”

China

35 China’s thinker-in-chief

36 Old and unvaccinated

in Hong Kong

37 Chaguan A complicated

Olympics

Middle East & Africa

38 Nuclear talks with Iran

39 Israel’s use of spyware

40 Teaching pregnant teens

41 Africa’s troubled union

What would happen if financial
markets crashed? Leader,
page 7.Is the modern
high-tech, bank-light financial
system better than the old
one? Brace for a stress test,
page 61

Ukraine's Minsky moment
Shuttle diplomacy has created
an opening for detente, but
there is a trap: leader, page 8.
Will Ukraine pay the cost of
European diplomacy? Page 50.
The beleaguered German
chancellor seeks a diplomatic
solution to his problems, page 42

Indian democracy: festive but
frayingIt is not just sectarianism
that is eating away at Indian
politics: leader, page 9.Elections
in its biggest state will show
which way the country is
travelling: briefing, page 14.
Elections aside, the main
elements of India’s democracy
are in poor health, page 29

Xi Jinping’s thinker-in-chief
The career of Wang Huning
reveals much about political
change in China,page 35

Redistricting: a bipartisan
scandalDemocrats have fared
surprisingly well in Congress’s
new maps. But the boundaries
still favour Republicans,page 17

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ChaguanAt the Beijing

winter games, a mix of

happy pride and angry

defiance, page 37

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