In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Economist

• Frozen out
  Europe faces a crisis of energy and geopolitics that will weaken it—and threaten its global position
• Disney’s surprise sequel
  Hollywood’s biggest studio brings back its leading man. But the real problem is the script
• All we want
  A wish-list of centrist proposals for the lame-duck Congress
• Let them shout
  Russian journalists in exile need help, not hindrance
• Green competition
  Great-power rivalry will shape the world’s response to climate change
• Chilling prospects
  Despite appearances, the costs and ill consequences of going without Russian gas are growing
• The second front
  How “offshore journalists” challenge Vladimir Putin’s lies
• And the band played on
  KYIVTrying to live as normal is an act of defiance
• The Pope’s nein
  BERLINReformist Catholic bishops get a dusty response from the Vatican
• First reforms, then cash
  Europe tries a new tool against corruption
• Mr Macron goes to Washington
  PARIS AND WASHINGTON, DCThe oldest allies confront new problems
• Cut-and-paste politics
  Europeans should steal more of their neighbours’ best ideas
• Big fans
  Offshore wind farms are central to Britain’s net-zero hopes
• Looking up
  What could improve Britain’s economic outlook?
• Conservative realism
  It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Tory rule
• Turmoil at home, jitters abroad
  Iran lashes out, but the regime looks weaker at home and abroad
• Sects in the city
  MANAMAStrife in Iran makes Bahrainis nervous, but also hopeful
• Kicking ahead
  DENI BIRAM NDAOA Senegalese academy shows how African football is changing
• Politics by other means
  DUBAIFor the Middle East, the World Cup is full of political symbols
• Chocolate wars
  TAFISSOU, ZAMBAKRO AND ABIDJANA cocoa cartel will do little to help the rural poor
• Anybody’s thing
  CHICAGOOrganised crime is much less organised than it was
• Orc invasion
  NEW YORKWhy it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan
• The homeless decline
  WASHINGTON, DCDespite the abundance of tents in the capital, the city is doing a good job
• Bench press
  NEW YORKWith a Democratic Senate, Joe Biden has a chance to rebalance the judiciary
• Loan to values
  Racial discrimination in mortgage lending has declined sharply
• Roll-up, roll-out
  NEW YORKThe Empire State reckons it has got cannabis legalisation right
• When Dreamers are deferred
  Congress should act now to protect immigrants brought illegally as children to America
• A divided country
  TAPACHULAAndrés Manuel López Obrador wants to develop the poorer south
• Crying foul
  SÃO PAULOJair Bolsonaro’s dodgy challenge to Brazil’s election result
• The bard of Cuba
  Pablo Milanés, a great musician and critic of Stalinism, has died
• Indian realism
  DELHIA shifting balance of power obscures the continuity in India’s global ambitions
• Pakistan to the rescue
  ISLAMABADA country not known for leadership at home provides some abroad
• Anwar Ibrahim gets the prize
  KUALA LUMPURAn election designed to reduce political uncertainty adds to it
• A storm in a satellite dish
  TOKYOBoring mainstream politicians are inspiring opportunists
• Lessons from the doghouse
  Australia has stood up to Chinese bullying and thrived
• The road to co-operation
  America and China are talking again about climate change
• Covid confusion
  BEIJINGChina’s response to a surge in covid-19 cases is muddled
• Blessed are the meek
  A campaign to “sinicise” Catholics is spreading to Hong Kong
• China’s slowdown hurts the young
  The woes of vocational-college graduates are revealing
• Hot tempers
  How—and how much—should polluting countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• Giving up on China
  Should multinational firms in China divest, decouple—or double-down?
• Countdown to lift-off
  MUMBAIIndia’s private rocketeers reach for the sky
• Hard bargains
  BERLINGermany’s biggest union strikes a deal on pay
• Prime of life
  It might be its riskiest business venture yet
• How to do lay-offs right
  It means thinking primarily about the people who are left behind
• The impossible-to-replace CEO
  Like many celebrity boomers, superstar bosses just can’t leave the stage
• Xi’s big bang
  China’s capital markets are complying with the Communist Party’s vision
• Banking on them
  Western officials need financiers’ help to keep money flowing into Russia
• Cryptzero
  ftx’s implosion has been brutal. Could crypto now collapse?
• Hot like Minnesota
  Lessons from the tightest corner of America’s ultra-tight labour market
• The coming crunch
  Global property’s goody-two-shoes are in trouble
• Frightening tightening
  Europe’s central bankers are nervous about unwinding quantitative easing
• Return of the rainmaker
  Weather is again determining economic outcomes. Soon it will be even more important
• Building with bacteria
  Conventional cement-making needs to be consigned to history. Some people are looking to micro-organisms to provide alternatives
• Trust no one
  AI outplays most humans in a game of negotiation and double-dealing
• Antibait
  An electrical device on a fishing line repels sharks and rays
• A new Roman “emperor”
  Analysis of a coin suggests a name is missing from imperial Rome’s annals
• Tales of the megacity
  TOKYOCan the charms of Japan’s capital be replicated elsewhere?
• Assimilation nation
  A tale of pastrami, kasha varnishkes and upward mobility
• Iceberg, right ahead
  In 1997 “Titanic” was a thrill. Twenty-five years on, it feels like a prophecy
• Victims of the energy weapon
  High fuel prices could kill more Europeans than the fighting in Ukraine
• A mother’s rage
  Hebe de Bonafini, figurehead of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, died on November 20th, aged 93