Briefing

Trainspotting, but with nukes
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information

Academics, activists and amateurs are making imaginative use of powerful tools

Pushing back
Joe Biden is determined that China should not displace America

His China policy is looking even tougher than Donald Trump’s

Missing ingredients
The bottlenecks which could constrain emission cuts

The green revolution risks running short of minerals, money and places to build

The land that ambition forgot
Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?

American and Chinese businesses have left their European counterparts in the dust

The puritan from Tepetitán
Mexico’s populist president faces a crucial test in elections in June

The vote could either curb him or empower him to take Mexico back to the 1970s