The Economist - USA (2022-05-21)

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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 Buffalo

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 official economic figures
look bleak,page 68

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