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The man who fell to earth
Emmanuel Macron loses his majority in parliament. Can he now get anything done?
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Hungry and angry
A wave of unrest is coming. Here’s how to avert some of it
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The ECB’s next headache
How fighting inflation could imperil the single currency
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Tiddlers, not titans
As new firms get bigger, the capital they need dries up
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Running on empty
Ukraine needs more; the West is slowly stepping up
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The Putin effect
ROME
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The turnaround
LJUBLJANA
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The great riposte of Córdoba
SEVILLE
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Heavy metal
Britain finally gets round to memorialising post-war migrants
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The longhorns and the law
JOHANNESBURG
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Once more unto the booths
JERUSALEM
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Princes, purses and putters
DUBAI
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Lost in conversion
WASHINGTON, DC
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Pump and dump
WASHINGTON, DC
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Snoozzzzzze on
WASHINGTON, DC
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A victory for God
NEW YORK
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Fission impossible?
WHITE MESA, UTAH
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Petrofied
BOGOTÁ AND CALI
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Murder in the Amazon
A double slaying reminds Brazilians how much their president scorns greens
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Birds, bees and not much else
BUENOS AIRES AND PANAMA CITY
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A giant stingray in the Mekong
The discovery of the world’s largest freshwater fish spells hope for the river
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Another disaster
ISLAMABAD
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From Moscow with money
BATKEN
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Exit stage left
After years of selling the idea of personal growth, will BTS try the real thing?
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The thought police
China’s mental-health crisis is getting worse. Covid lockdowns and constant surveillance probably do not help
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Catapulting forward
What to make of a big new ship
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Whose is it?
America and China spar over military use of a strategic waterway
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Doctor Google will see you now
Alphabet wants to shake up a seemingly undisruptable multi-trillion-dollar industry
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New pharm hands
Entrepreneurs want to shake up America’s overpriced drug market
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NetUnease
SHANGHAI
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Pity the managers
Don’t overdo the sympathy, but the job is both necessary and demanding
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Bean-counters v lion-tamers
In EY’S split, fortune may favour the dull
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Whenever it breaks
How inflation and rising interest rates might affect Italy’s finances
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Blockchain reaction
Three mechanisms for crypto contagion
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The devil to pay
AMSTERDAM
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After the fall
What a key valuation measure says about buying the dip
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Islands of price stability
HONG KONG
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The BoJ v the markets
Investors test the Bank of Japan’s promise to keep yields low
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A natural question
The rights and wrongs of investing in natural-gas projects
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Into a void
Why inflation expectations could be hard to bring down.
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Unblocking the problem
Fertility doctors may be missing a trick
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Irregular regularity
Clinical trial results for the Russian covid vaccine are called into question
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A story carved in ivory
The Buesching mastodon died about 13,200 years ago, aged 34
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In the street kitchen
NEW YORK
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Debussy to a disco beat
Pet Shop Boys achieved a kind of musical alchemy—transmuting sadness into joy
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Against the grain
Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
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Fight without end
Roman Ratushny, a civic and environmental activist in Ukraine, was killed fighting near Izyum on June 9th, aged 24
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Electrical tension
Electrifying everything does not solve the climate crisis, but it is a great start.
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The people’s power
Getting the most out of tomorrow’s grid requires digitisation, demand response and perhaps a dash of democracy
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Beyond batteries
The deep decarbonisation of grids heavily reliant on renewables requires long-duration energy storage
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Low-hanging fruit
New technology makes it possible to monitor, manage and minimise the methane leaks which dog the natural-gas industry
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The long goodbye
Making natural gas emissions-free means dealing with its carbon content either before burning it or after
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Heat, hope and hydrogen
Green gases can help tackle the hard-to-decarbonise industry
