Riding high: A special report on the future of work

The world’s biggest economy

America’s boom has begun. Can it last?

No neutral ground

Corporate America weighs in on Georgia’s voting-rights law

Taxing corporate America

America Inc is on the hook for Joe Biden’s splurge on infrastructure

Climate policy

The bumps ahead for Joe Biden’s plan to decarbonise America

Gender war

A challenge to male-only draft registration lands at America’s Supreme Court

College admissions

America tries to figure out a fairer way to select students

Urban gardening

A blooming future for New York’s community gardens

Growing pains

Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming

Revolutionary drugs

Cuba may become the smallest country to make covid-19 vaccines

Bello

Brazil’s army is trying to distance itself from Jair Bolsonaro

AMLO’s weak spots

The Mexican economy has been battered by the pandemic

Indian brink

India is recording more cases of covid-19 than any other country

One-week wonder

Bhutan vaccinated almost all adults against covid-19 in a week

Reef madness

China tries to nick another speck in the sea from the Philippines

Even transience is mutating

Another species harmed by climate change: Japanese poets

Strength without numbers

Thailand’s democracy protests are dwindling

If you can’t beat them, obey them

Pakistan’s generals are ever more involved in running the country

Banyan

Asia’s air bridges and travel bubbles will expand only slowly

In grandpa’s charge

The plight of China’s “left-behind” children

Chaguan

China thinks it can avoid Middle Eastern traps that caught America

Uneasy lies the head

A feud in Jordan’s royal family

Opening up

Getting into Iraq may soon be much easier

Hope you like war movies

How Egyptian entertainment has changed under military rule

Wake up and smell it

Kenyans are starting to drink their own coffee

One step backwards, two forwards

Covid-19 creates a window for school reform in Africa

Turning thuggish

Benin’s democratic beacon dims

The people’s voice

Populists are threatening Europe’s independent public broadcasters

House of the dead

Does the Kremlin want Alexei Navalny to die in prison?

Bye-bye Boyko?

Bulgaria’s prime minister stumbles badly at the polls

Divided by an uncommon language

Genetically, Basques aren't that different from other Spaniards

Charlemagne

Emmanuel Macron’s troubles open up space for Marine Le Pen

Opening shots

Britain, the covid-19 laboratory

Pubs

Britain’s boozers are going al fresco

Men about town

Two Conservative mayors have very different ideas about cities

Flogging a dead horse

NatWest’s struggle to sell Ulster Bank

Spilling onto the streets

Brexit is the catalyst for rioting in Northern Ireland

Smart moves

Foreign students remain remarkably keen on Britain’s universities

Bagehot

Liz Truss and the power of perkiness

Virtual insanity

Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay

The future of work

A bright future for the world of work

The shock

Labour markets are working, but also changing

Essential workers

The biggest losers from covid-19

Home working

The rise of working from home

Automation

Robots threaten jobs less than fearmongers claim

Government policy

Changing central banks—and governments

Flexicurity

The case for Danish welfare

How to think about work

Pessimism about the labour market is overdone

Sources and acknowledgments

Tycoons on a tight leash

China’s rulers want more control of big tech

Bartleby

A leaked memo from a chief impact officer

Seize and insist

Cairn Energy takes on India’s government

Hype club

Clubhouse may fade. Group voice chat is here to stay

Reformulated

Pfizer’s boss thinks covid-19 is reshaping Big Pharma for the better

Schumpeter

Brace for the Amazon effect on live sport

The race for space

House prices in the rich world are booming

Making strides

The IMF marks up the global recovery

Setting a floor

Janet Yellen calls for a global minimum tax on companies. Could it happen?

Squaring the coin

Coinbase goes public with a pop

The dirty truth

Totting up bitcoin’s environmental costs

A new tack

As China’s stockmarket corrects, regulators try doing less

Obituary

Robert Mundell, an influential international economist, has died

Free exchange

In poor countries, statistics are both undersupplied and underused

Race and sex bias in medicine

How medicine discriminates against non-white people and women

Covid-19 vaccines

With millions vaccinated, rare side-effects of jabs are emerging

Domestic heating

If you can have microwave ovens, why not microwave boilers?

Particle physics

A second possible break in the laws of physics has been noted

Art and belonging

The tragedy of Jewish art collectors in pre-war Paris

Rhyme for your life

Spoken poetry finds fans in eastern Congo

Dial him for murder

Presenting Alfred Hitchcock, elusive genius

Egyptian fiction

Alaa Al Aswany revisits Egypt’s doomed revolution of 2011

Johnson

Why it’s so hard to fix maddening spelling systems

Approaching the ceiling

Our house-price forecast expects the global rally to lose steam

Paperback rider

Larry McMurtry died on March 25th