Feb 20th 2021

America’s better future: No carbon and no blackouts

The world this week

Leaders

Decarbonising America
America’s better future

This is the moment for an ambitious attempt to deal with climate change

Italy
Another chance

Mario Draghi’s appointment as prime minister is good for Italy and good for Europe

Capital-raising on Wall Street
Spactacular

SPACS are a mania—and a useful way to take firms public

India’s jobs market
Many hands, light work

A lower share of women are in work in India than in Saudi Arabia

Fighting jihadists
Macron’s African mission

France wants to avoid a “forever war” in the Sahel. That will take patience, and allies

Letters

On nuclear weapons, J.B. Priestley, China, covid-19, protests, Moore’s law, sheds
Letters to the editor

Briefing

Decarbonising America
The switch

America has done too little to fight rising temperatures. Joe Biden wants to change that

United States

A perfect storm
Light a candle for the kids

Impeachment
Marred but at largio

Talk radio
Tower of babble

Andrew Cuomo and the pandemic
Under pressure

Baltimore’s homes
Rescued charm

The ideas of the far right
Deadly inspirations

Lexington
John Kerry, eco-warrior

The Americas

Mexico’s president
The transformer

Women in Mexico
Tampon tempest

Bello
A case of mistaken identity

Asia

India’s labour market
200m jobs short

New Caledonia
Les Kanaks en marche

The coup in Myanmar
General strike

Lockdown in the Philippines
Suffer the little children

Banyan
The swing to the sultans

China

The vaccine roll-out
Sinovacillate

Pirated films
Winter is coming

Chaguan
How to kill a democracy

Middle East & Africa

France’s forever war
Which way out?

The International Criminal Court
The case against the prosecutor

Tree trade
Coconut shy

Angola’s economy
Oil, toil and spoils

Iranian politics
The agitator

The United Arab Emirates
Hope and despair

Europe

Italy and Europe
Whatever it takes

Catalonia votes
Variations on a nationalist theme

France
Protection plates

Russia’s propaganda war
Sympathy for the devil

Charlemagne
Dirty politics

Britain

Cutting carbon
Big on clean energy

Solar power
Here comes the sun

The politics of culture
Bonfire of the insanities

Growing cannabis
Pot luck

Covid-19
Here we go

Financial technology
Silicon wallet

Bagehot
Starmer stuck

Jobs at The Economist
We’re hiring

International

Touch and covid-19
You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling

Business

Mobility in China
Trafficking dreams

Intel
Hard reboot

The record industry
Musical shares

Carmaking
ICEy conditions ahead

Glencore
Pit stop

Danone
Culture wars

Online shopping
South Korea’s baby Amazon

Bartleby
Back for good, or bad

Schumpeter
Red in tooth and clawback

Finance & economics

Capital markets
SPAC invasion

SPACs in Silicon Valley
Rain for the rainmakers

Great expectations
Economic forecasters are pencilling in heady growth rates

Stock exchanges
Advantage Amsterdam

Digital currencies
Token gestures

Trade
In search of a cure

Buttonwood
Jumping ship

Free exchange
Radiant energy

Science & technology

Gender medicine
Arrested development

Palaeontology
Very, very long in the tooth

Electric sailing
Of batteries and boats

Sleep research
The interpretation of dreams

Books & arts

Tackling climate change
The race to zero

Britain’s past and present
The sun never sets

Foreigners in Berlin
Unreal city

British fiction
Still lives

Korean listening habits
Exit music

Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Monarchy and genetics
The reign in Spain

Obituary

Chick Corea
Music without limits