Africa's long covid: The toll on growth

Send for the technocrats, again

Mario Draghi is summoned to form Italy’s government A Muscovite mockery of justice

Russia’s regime is weakened by putting Alexei Navalny in jail Running out of gas?

Why Germany won’t kill Nord Stream 2 Solitary cinema

A Swedish film festival has just one attendee Charlemagne

How Europe dodges responsibility for its vaccine fiascoBritain Finance and Brexit

Britain’s financial-services business is divided over “equivalence” National hero

Remembering Captain Sir Tom Moore Northern Ireland

A messy Brexit deal threatens to reignite violence in Northern Ireland The gambler

After a shaky start, Matt Hancock has got the big calls right Country life

More killings of sheep by dogs shows a delicate rural balance out of kilter R&D

A new science agency is part of plans to transform research in Britain The national mood

Even the successful vaccine roll-out is not improving Britons’ moods Bagehot

How Boris Johnson should spend his political capitalMiddle East & Africa Rise of the secularists

Will his alliance with the ultra-Orthodox doom Binyamin Netanyahu? At the end of the line

Africa’s recovery from covid-19 will be slow Broken-down country

What a shortage of cars says about Algeria Murder, plain and simple

Arab governments are doing too little to end honour killingsUnited States Life, liberty

America’s two largest states are fighting covid-19 differently Vanishing act

Large numbers of pupils are no longer enrolled in America’s schools Class warfare

The struggle over reopening Chicago’s schools Stimulating talk

Republicans test the precise meaning of Joe Biden’s talk of unity Roe-ing back

How religious conservatives learned to love anti-discrimination laws Lexington

Adam Kinzinger is making a lone stand against Donald TrumpThe Americas The terrible truth

Colombia’s peace tribunal issues a crushing judgment against the FARC Bello

Latin America needs a new social contract More mice than Mussolinis

Latin America’s year of elections will test the region’s democraciesAsia Strengthening the shrimp

South Korea is preparing for a lonelier, scarier future Home, sweet home

Few young Japanese want to study or work abroad Prevention is better than cure

India’s government is censoring people before they comment Here’s my QR code

Business cards are going online in Asia Banyan

The surprising choice to lead Vietnam’s Communist PartyChina Keyboard Maoists

Anti-capitalist tirades go viral in China Young at art

Officials in China make pupils take sport seriously—with exams Chaguan

Because of covid, many in China will miss their biggest holidayInternational Don’t stand so close to me

Even before covid-19, nightclubs were strugglingBusiness Driving apart

Daimler Truck and Mercedes-Benz part ways Too close to the sun

What the fate of HNA Group says about China Inc’s foreign ambitions Cook v Zuck

Apple’s long-awaited privacy policy kicks Facebook where it hurts Life after Jeff

Can Amazon’s next boss fill Jeff Bezos’s supersized boots? Goalless defeat

Why no one wants to broadcast France’s Ligue 1 Bartleby

How to get managers’ incentives right Schumpeter

Shareholders are pushing ExxonMobil to go greenFinance & economics Transfer of power

A new epoch for retail investors is just beginning Pay-per trade

High-frequency traders are in the spotlight Meme team

How WallStreetBets works Border crossings

Chinese investors’ access to foreign assets expands—a bit After months of dithering

Germany’s finance minister promises to overhaul financial regulation Buttonwood

Why the WallStreetBets crowd are able to profit from predatory trading Free exchange

How should economists think about biodiversity?Science & technology Vaccine manufacture

How vaccines are made, and why it is hard Viral variants and vaccination

Will variants of SARS-CoV-2 make vaccination harder? Daughters and divorce

Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons Marine ecology

Deep-ocean plastic is a haven for life The origin of land animals

A tiny genetic alteration may have let vertebrates leave the seaCulture Open secrets

France’s silence over the sexual abuse of minors is breaking Tales of the city

The volatile history of Karachi Eco-fiction

A “Moby Dick” for the age of climate change Who wants to live for ever?

Ageing can be cured—and, in part, it soon will be The time of their lives

A tag-team reading of “In Search of Lost Time”Economic & financial indicatorsEconomic data, commodities and marketsGraphic detail Sweet memes are made of this

What the favourite stocks of r/wallstreetbets have in commonObituary At war with the invisible

Nikolai Antoshkin died on January 17th