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Britain and the European Union: The negotiator

The White House: Frustration

Coal’s decline: Sunlight over soot

Myanmar: A hero disappoints

Economic policy: Friction lovers

On Scoxit, domino theory, quantum physics, refugees, inequality, apostrophes: Letters to the editor

America’s checks and balances: Constrained?

Tax reform: The red and the brown

Farming in the Midwest: Rhyme time

Environmental policy: Down and dirty

College protests: Bicker warning

Trump and Russia: Never-ending story

Lexington: Now for the hard part

Cuba: Stuck in the past

Canada’s new rules of war: When to shoot a child soldier

Bello: Upgrading Brazil’s political class

Myanmar: Governing in prose

Jihadists in Bangladesh: Fighting a hydra

Political freedom in Singapore: No place for the crass

Suicide in India: A break for the despairing

Politics in South Korea: Moon also rises

China and America: Tortoise v hare

Banyan: Lovin’ Hong Kong

Famine stalks Africa and Yemen: The third horseman returns

Islamic State: Mine enemy

Israel: Prime minister v pundits

Egypt and America: Loved up

Protests in Russia: The young and the restless

Portugal’s recovery: Growing out of it

Foreign policy in France’s election: Beyond the Hexagon

Slovakia’s political mystery: Family drama

Charlemagne: Pivot towards Tokyo

Britain and the European Union: A race against time

The UK Independence Party: And then there were none

Labour v capital: Justice in an age of austerity

British Airways on a budget: Of sandwiches and Percy Pigs

Birmingham’s Muslims: In the eye of the storm

Home-grown terrorism: Zeal of the convert

Bagehot: What would Walter say?

The war on poverty: Fewer, but still with us

High-end retailing: Lux in flux

Swiss watchmakers: Wound up

Indian education: Cramville

Scott Gottlieb and the FDA: Drug of choice

Internet advertising: Advalanche

Nuclear power: Fallout

Schumpeter: Sonic boom

Chinese-American economic ties: The silk-silver axis

Free exchange: Remember the mane

Energy in Asia: Canary in the coal mine

Buttonwood: Repent at leisure

Equity research: Breaking up is hard to do

Italy’s bad debts: Cleaning up

Indonesia’s tax amnesty: A small price to pay

The market for sand: A shore thing

Brains and computers: We can remember it for you wholesale

Biomedical engineering: Moving moments

Detecting chemical weapons: Laying a glove on it

Global air pollution: Trading in mortality

Bird brains and traffic accidents: Small is not beautiful

Vaccines: Taking stock

Faith and tradition in China: Pilgrims through this barren land

Sexual selection: Gender fluidity

New fiction: Heady stuff

David Jones, painter-poet: Modernist man

Classical music: An elegant primer

Johnson: Everybody has their opinion

Derek Walcott: Songs of the sea

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Subatomic opportunities: Quantum leaps

Britain’s budget: Spreadsheets v politics

Stockmarkets: Bubble-spotting

Geopolitics: One China, many meanings

Food snobbery and economics: In praise of quinoa

On renewable energy, voting: Letters to the editor

The one-China policy: The great brawl of China

Democracy in America: Everything-gate

Ryancare: Medicine or poison?

Lobbying for refugees: That’s awesome

The updated travel ban: Improved, unjust

WikiLeaks, again: The spy who came in for the code

Chicago: This American carnage

Campus free speech: Blue on blue

Lexington: Fear and loathing everywhere

Brazil: An accidental, consequential president

Ethnicity in the Caribbean: Favouring curry

Bello: How to steal a country

Australia’s economy: On a chiko roll

Elections in Western Australia: Western values

Free speech in Singapore: Grumble and be damned

North Korea and Malaysia: A despot takes hostages

Pakistan: Pak on track?

Banyan: A tale of two statues

The national legislature: Caretaker of the chrysalis

Politics: Any colour, so long as it’s red

Dodging censorship: Xi, the traitor

The war against Islamic State: Caliphate at bay

Egypt’s economy: Green shoots

A port for Gaza: Preventing the next war

Cameroon: Lingua fracas

South Africa: Disgrace

The Dutch election: The populists’ dilemma

A new charter for Turkey: Me, the people

Humanitarian visas: Another way in?

Macedonia’s political crisis: Scared in Skopje

Strays in Istanbul: When fat cats are a good thing

Charlemagne: Go, speed racer, go

The budget: Calm before the storm

New taxes: Read my lips

Northern Ireland: An upset in Ulster

European Union migrants: Administrative agonies

Sport and politics: Rugby unionism

Further education: Technical upgrade

Juvenile delinquency: The kids are all right

Bagehot: Theresa May sallies forth

Grain consumption: Of rice and men

Quantum devices: Here, there and everywhere

Metrology: Sensing sensibility

Communications: Oh what entangled web we weave

Quantum computers: Cue bits

Brain scan: David Deutsch

Software: Program management

Uses: Commercial breaks

The mining business: The richest seam

Tech IPOs: Oh, Snap!

PSA buys Opel: Used carmaker

Railways: The whistle’s blowing

Rise of the micro-multinational: Chinese and overseas

New production technologies: Recasting steel

Schumpeter: Jiopolitics

The future of insurance: Counsel of protection

Peer-to-peer insurance: When life throws you lemons

Asset management: Choosing Life

Buttonwood: A port in a storm

Deutsche Bank: Blues in a different key

Trade with China: Shock horror

Global property prices: Searching for sanctuary

Green-shipping finance: Light at the end of the funnel

The Dutch economy: Who’s Nexit?

Free exchange: Borrowed time

Synthetic biology: Something’s brewing

Unmanned underwater vehicles: A clever solution

Women in research: Fairer than it was

Road accidents: Safe on taxis

Smartphone diagnostics: Pictures of health

Sexual attractiveness: My chemical romance

The future of America: Bland comfort

Social media: In praise of serendipity

Dutch fiction: Madness in words

Consciousness explained: The blind Bach-maker

Traditional Japanese theatre: Enduring power

Mostafa el-Abbadi: All the books in the world

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The multinational company: In retreat

Venezuela: It’s a mad, mad, mad, Maduro world

America’s trade with China: Jaw, jaw

Private schools in poor countries: Tablets of learning

Family life in Russia: Empowering the vilest malefactors

On assisted suicide, John Calvin, languages, calendars, the Normans: Letters to the editor

Multinationals: The retreat of the global company

Donald Trump in office: Trust me, I’m the president

Abortion policy: Gag reflex

Pipelines: On a war footing

Replacing Obamacare: High risk by name

Subsidising professional sports: If you fund it, they may come

Schools: Teaching economics

Colleges and inequality: Skipping class

Lexington: The Herbal Tea Party

Venezuela: Maduro’s dance of disaster

Bello: Death of a justice

Mexico and the United States: Pistols drawn

Sport in Argentina: Football for nobody

The South China Sea: Own shoal

Politics in Malaysia: Regal trouble

Censorship in South Korea: The new black

Indigenous Australians: Ministering to his own

The race for governor in Jakarta: Demolition in progress

Banyan: Goring the law

Mental illness: Ending the shame

Lunar new year: Rooster boosters

Syria’s peace talks: Time for someone else to have a go

Arab politics: Who can unblock Morocco?

Israel: Unsettled

Gambia: No Jammeh tomorrow

Air travel: Nigeria makes its capital a no-fly zone

Inheritance in Zimbabwe: Why widows get evicted

Germany’s Social Democrats: A slim chance of being chancellor

The Koblenz “counter-summit”: We are the alt-world

Italian politics: Matteo Renzi’s rush to elections

France’s presidential election: In the pink

Wife-beating in Russia: Putin’s family values

Charlemagne: Please Mr Erdogan

Local government: Running on empty

Brexit and Article 50: Supreme judgment

Sinn Fein: A new sort of leader

Industrial strategy: Less is more

Teaching clever children: Russian lessons

Business after Brexit: Leave or Remain?

A property boom in the Shetland Islands: Heading north

Bagehot: A difficult hole

Muslim head coverings: What not to wear

Headscarves in Turkey: Under cover

Bridge International Academies: Assembly line

Formula One: Bye-bye, Bernie

Political dating websites: Making America date again

Qualcomm: Until the patents squeak

Food retailing: The big McCustomisation

How to build a nuclear-power plant: Nuclear options

Schumpeter: Overnight sensation

Sino-American trade: Rules of engagement

The trade-war scenario: Apocalypse now

Dublin as a financial centre: Emerald aisles

Buttonwood: Letting go

Student loans: Grading education

Aid and migrant labour: Ticket to pride

Chinese economic data: Potemkin province

Reinsurance: Daddy long tail

Free exchange: Mad maximum

Physics: Small is still beautiful

The academy and the marketplace: Mathematical transformations

Vehicle engine management: Intelligence test

Regenerative medicine: A tissue of truths

The roots of modern resentment: Enlightenment and its discontents

Istanbul: Where the past is not dead

New fiction: A man in full

Politics and sentiment: Utopia of reason

Sundance: An inconvenient moment

Arthur Manuel: Unsettling

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A Trump White House: The 45th president

African politics: A dismal dynast

Britain and the European Union: A hard road

Regulating car emissions: Road outrage

The legacy of gendercide: Too many single men

Letters to the Editor: On Theresa May, the split infinitive, Disney, missiles, tax, steel, India's demonetisation, Flashman

The Trump administration: A helluva handover

Peter Navarro: Free-trader turned game-changer

Emboldened states: California steaming

Women’s rights: March nemesis

Asian-American voters: Bull in a China shop

Chelsea Manning: The long commute

Lexington: History lessons

El Salvador: Unhappy anniversary

Argentina: Tango in trouble

Cuban migrants: Special no more

Chinese influence in South-East Asia: The giant’s client

Education in Thailand: Not rocket science

Street vendors in Mumbai: Stabbed in the snack

Politics in Australia: Going for gold

Pakistan’s economy: Roads to nowhere

China and the world: The new Davos man

The navy: Deep blue ambition

Banyan: Dangling forbidden pleasures

The African Union: Ex factor

Farming in Ethiopia and Kenya: Qatnip

Default in paradise: Boats and a scandal

Bahrain: An unhappy isle

Terrorism in Tunisia: Jihadis come home

Turkey’s all-powerful president: Iron constitution

Emigration in eastern Europe: The old countries

The European Parliament: A shift to the right

Reform in Russia: Listen, liberal

Russian propaganda: Putin’s prevaricating puppets

Charlemagne: Looking hairy

Brexit: Doing it the hard way

Trade with America: The art of the deal

Northern Ireland: Polls apart

The National Health Service: Don’t carry on, doctor

Museums: Changing the guard

Regeneration through culture: Larkin around

Ill-gotten gains: Scrounging for coppers

Bagehot: Let the work permits flow

Sex selection: Boy trouble

Prizing girls: Like father, like daughter

Cigarette companies: Plucky strike

Fiat Chrysler: Gas puzzlers

Samsung: Heir of disapproval

French and Italian firms: Into the frame

Rolls-Royce: Weathering the storm

Information technology: Reboot

Tata Sons: Chandra’s challenge

Schumpeter: Six sects of shareholder value

Italy’s bank rescue: Saving Siena

Finance in Cyprus: Bank from the brink

Ukraine’s economy: The other war

Buttonwood: Zombies ate our growth

Indonesian capital flows: Heavy baggage

American financial regulation: Not with a bang

Brexit and financial regulation: Lost passports

Inequality: A minivan of Mammon

Free exchange: Tariff-eyeing policy

Modelling brains: Does not compute

Panda genetics: Hey, dude. Give me six!

Solar physics and palaeontology: Set in stone

Submarine warfare: Torpedo junction

Submarine warfare: The Richard Casement internship

America’s secret war: They just kept coming

19th-century French literary history: When Emile Zola fled Paris

The joys of smoking: Naughty, but nice

The AIDS crisis in America: Chronicles of death foretold

The Elbphilharmonie: Worth the wait, and the cost

Johnson: One country, two systems

Clare Hollingworth: Sniffing the breezes

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Negotiating Brexit: The way forward

Hong Kong: China’s new Tibet

Egypt’s reforms: Two cheers for the general

On central banks, Poland, Denmark, companies, Frida Kahlo, democracy: Letters to the editor

America and the world: The piecemaker

The world reacts: “Do nightmares come true?”

Nuclear codes: A new finger on the button

Election 2016: How it happened

The Trump administration: What to expect

Trump and the economy: Strap up

Polling and prediction: Epic fail

The Democrats: Destiny derailed

Lexington: The people v the people

Donald Trump and Mexico: The wall that appals

Maple syrup crimes: Syrup and sin

Property in Venezuela: Maduro’s boom

Bello: The limits of technocratic government

Japanese politics: Abe ascendant

Ferdinand Marcos: Hail to the thief

Civilians v soldiers in Pakistan: General consternation

Wildlife conservation: Grim pickings

Pollution in India: Worse than Beijing

Banyan: Prophets of piffle

Democracy: China holds elections

Separatism in Hong Kong: Umbrellas out

Cyber-regulation: The noose tightens

Lou Jiwei: A little local difficulty

Zimbabwe: Life after Bob

Fighting fires in South Africa: Burning down the house

South Africa’s courts: Judges v Jacob

Egyptian politics: Sense and sensitivity

Islamic State in Syria: Anyone for Raqqa?

Tunisia’s tourism: The Russians are coming

Europe’s alt-right: Wolves in skinny jeans

Germany’s loony right: The Reich lives on

Polish paranoia: Tales from the crypt

Russia’s Trump fans: Our American cousin

While you were watching Trump...: Turkey locks up dissidents

Charlemagne: When America sneezes…

Brexit and Parliament: Questions of sovereignty

India and Britain: A cooler climate

Marks and Spencer scales down: Pants on fire

The benefit cap: Tightening the screw

Brexit and politics: Election fever

Marine energy: Ruling the waves

Buried treasure: Hitting the jackpot

Remembering war: Policing poppies

Bagehot: The machine splutters

Espionage: Shaken and stirred

Technology: Tinker, tailor, hacker, spy

Governance: Standard operating procedure

Edward Snowden: You’re US government property

China and Russia: Happenstance and enemy action

How to do better: The solace of the law

American business: Meet the new boss

Trump and tech: System crash

Volkswagen: A long road to recovery

BAE Systems: Fighting fit

Taxis take on Uber: African potholes

Courier firms: The big sort

Schumpeter: The great divergence

The world economy: Our election, your problem

Buttonwood: Déjà vu all over again

The world economy: Coming up Trumps

Housing in America (1): The cost of poor lending

Housing in America (2): To those that have

Money in India: Taking notes

Banks and cybercrime: Online checkout

Banks and cybercrime: Internship

Particle physics: So long, Susy?

Palaeontology: Origin story

Space exploration: Dusting yourself down

Drug development: Pets on trial

Naval warfare: Follow the trail

Global warming: Days of the triffids

Literary history: Refugee avant la lettre

Turkey: Fault-lines upon fault-lines

Natural history: Omnivore’s delight

A literary life: Cartergraphy

Glenda Jackson in “King Lear”: Wielding the matter

Johnson: Doing by talking

Raoul Wallenberg: The persistence of hope

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Russia: Putinism

The battle for Mosul: Crushing the caliphate

Business in America: Float like a butterfly

Thailand’s succession: A royal mess

Trade agreements: Asterix in Belgium

On Brexit, Bob Dylan, bonds, Donald Trump: Letters to the editor

Private Equity: The barbarian establishment

Election 2016: Hating Hillary

The third debate: Final insult

The campaigns: Heard on the trail

Election brief: Infrastructure: A view from the bridge

Lexington: How to shoot a man in Reno

Canada’s climate policy: Let the haggling begin

Bello: A model Latin American

Clowns in Cuba: The red-nosed gold rush

Informality in Latin America: Casual Mondays to Fridays

Thailand’s monarchy: An empty throne

Bhutan: Happy-grow-lucky

South Asian media: All hail

Assisted suicide in Australia: On the brink

Maternity culture in Japan: No pain, no gain

Preservation in India: Brick by brick

Banyan: Duterte’s pivot

Politics: Master of nothing

Iraq: Marching on Mosul

Jordan: The uneasy crown

Saudi Arabia’s religious police: Advice for the vice squad

South Africa: This other Eden Project

Justice in Africa: Poor law

Ukraine’s future: Bone of contention

Ukraine’s rock-star politician: Front man

Russia’s Bashneft deal: Easy sale

Italy’s Five Star Movement: Requiem for a dreamer

The Canada-EU trade deal: Hot-air Walloons

Charlemagne: Couleurs primaires

Social mobility: A class apart

Inflation: Only the beginning

Politics: Theresa’s way

Policing: The long lens of the law

Porn and protest: Obscene and not heard

Britain and the European Union: Brexit à la carte

Housebuilding: Prefabs sprout

Public inquiries: Question time

Education: Not-so-super heads

Bagehot: The spectre of Scoxit

Migration to Europe: Travelling in hope

Russia: Inside the bear

The economy: Milk without the cow

Power structures: Wheels within wheels

Foreign policy: The fog of wars

Modern life: Tell me about Joan of Arc

Past and future: Take care of Russia

Elon Musk’s empire: Countdown

Media models: Channelling Trump

Biotechnology: The trials of Juno

Retailing: Push my buttons

African airlines: Well-connected

Indian furniture makers: Turning the tables

Schumpeter: Techno wars

Government bonds: Who’s scary now?

Venezuelan government debt: Running out of time

Italian banks: Spectral forms

Buttonwood: Mutual incomprehension

Watson and financial regulation: It knows their methods

Free exchange: Subtract and divide

Making sex cells from body cells: The ancestor’s tail

Urban planning: Listen to the music of the traffic in the city

Anti-malaria drugs: Do you yield?

Exploring Mars: Triumph or disaster?

Sexual cannibalism: Nature’s cruellest one-night stand

The meaning of jihad: Men of war

Migrants: Making profits out of hope

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: A song of Africa

Latin American Modernism: A time of gifts

Fiction from Israel: Delusion chronicle

Steven Isserlis: String fellow

Dario Fo: Italy’s jester

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Election 2016: The debasing of American politics

Pharmaceuticals: Bad medicine

Intervention in Yemen: The forgotten war

China’s property market: Rotten foundations

Sterling: Taking a pounding

On Venezuela, aid, Syria, tax, Mars, adjectives: Letters to the editor

The Trump tape: With these hands

The politics of sexual assault: It’s not just the powerful

Hillary Clinton’s campaign: Hacked off

The campaigns: Heard on the trail

The evangelical vote: Absalom’s revenge

Washington state’s carbon tax: Of wood and trees

Bilingual education: Learning to assimilate

Lexington: Growing Cotton in Iowa

US-Mexico trade: In the shadow of the wall

US-Canada trade: The other neighbour

Haiti after the hurricane: Matthew’s fury

Bello: Whether ’tis Nobeler in the mind

Nuclear energy in Japan: Stop-start

Politics in Thailand: Holding their breath

Booming Bangladesh: Tiger in the night

Myanmar’s Muslims: Sparks near tinder

Graft-busting in South Korea: Trick or treat

Banyan: Let not a billion tongues bloom

Hong Kong politics: No swearing

Dysfunctional constituencies: Too many seats for farmers

A policeman’s lot: Not happy

Ethiopia: The downside of authoritarian development

Agriculture and climate: Fertile discussion

Yemen: Deaths at a funeral

South Africa: Rolling the rand

Morocco’s election: More of the same?

The rise of Syria’s White Helmets: Local heroes

Poland’s populist government: Ladies in black

Refugees and sex: Belgian girls aren’t easy

German business and Brexit: BMW won’t save Britain

Charlemagne: Two cheers for hypocrisy

Airport expansion: Final call

International students: Hasta la visa

Brexit and Article 50: Parliament rules, not OK?

Second thoughts on Europe: After Brexit, Bregret

Government and entrepreneurship: More slowdown than startup

London river crossings: The Thames barrier

Devolution: Brum Brum

Bagehot: The isle is full of noises

The United Nations’ secretary-general: Can the next man do better?

The shadow economy: Unregulated, untaxed, unloved

Samsung’s smartphone woes: Charred chaebol

Working style in Japan: Overdoing it

Apple in Italy: Made men

Advertising: Gold posts

Privatisation in Vietnam: Cream of the crop

Technology in China: Insanely virtual

Business schools: Campus vs beach

The world’s best MBA programmes: Worth it?

Schumpeter: The business of outrage

Chinese property: When a bubble is not a bubble

Buttonwood: Flash and the firestorm

Wells Fargo’s boss stands down: Stumpfed

Portugal’s economy: Adventure tourism

America’s workers: Feel the force flow

Bangladesh’s missing millions: Hide and seek

Payment-card fees: Marked cards

Free exchange: Hard bargains

Depression and its treatment: Sniffing at a new solution

Prosthetic medicine: Once more, with feeling

Civil engineering: Scouring, the future

Manufacturing ultracapacitors: Baltic exchange

Social attitudes: Not worth a second glance

China today (1): To have and to hold

China today (2): Build, and they will come

Afghanistan: Karzai Inc

Classical music: Piano man

On Broadway: The stories people tell

Hanoi Hannah: The music of English

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The war in Syria: Grozny rules in Aleppo

Ending Latin America’s oldest war: A messy but necessary peace

Colonising Mars: For life, not for an afterlife

On the NHS, Hong Kong, alternative voting, socialist beer: Letters to the editor

Colombia’s peace: A chance to clean up

The Clintons’ financial affairs: Bill and Hillary Inc.

Donald Trump’s finances: Touching the void

Saudi Arabia and 9/11: Enter the lawyers

The campaigns: Heard on the trail

Florida: Where past and future collide

Election brief: climate change: Notes from the undergrowth

Lexington: No happy ending

Venezuela: The angry 80%

Bello: A discredited profession

Thailand’s economy: The dangers of farsightedness

Cambodian politics: The velvet glove frays

Protest in South Korea: Death by water cannon

Mould-breaking politicians (1): Going into battle

Mould-breaking politicians (2): Twice a minority

Regional development: Rich province, poor province

Banyan: The eyes have it

Syria’s civil war: The agony of Aleppo

The destruction of Aleppo: Crushed flowers

Morocco’s elections: A “weird and strange” campaign

Nigerian vigilantes: The home guard

Endangered species: To sell or not to sell?

Congo’s political crisis: A burnt-out case

Hungary’s anti-migrant vote: Boundary issues

Turkey’s armed forces: Chains of command

Russia and MH17: Brought to BUK

AIDS in Russia: Immune to reason

Danish culture: Cocoa by candlelight

Charlemagne: A tale of two ethics

The Labour Party conference: You say you want a revolution

Sporting scandal: Own goals

Immigration and Africa: Hello right hand, meet left hand

Education: The road to London

Looking after the elderly: Sans everything

Child development: Baby steps

Bagehot: Jeremy Corbyn, dodgy dealer

Transport as a service: It starts with a single app

The world economy: An open and shut case

Free trade: Coming and going

Migration: Needed but not wanted

Capital mobility: The good, the bad and the ugly

Deregulation and competition: A lapse in concentration

Saving globalisation: The reset button

Nintendo: Jump-start

Business in China: Mixed messages

Ink wars: Blot on the landscape

Digital advertising: Doesn’t ad up

Europe’s outposts: Not always in clusters

Voice computing: Prick up your ears

Schumpeter: Don’t limit the revolution

Trade deals: Hard bargain

Oil: The little cartel that could

The Mexican peso: Slip slidin’ away

Buttonwood: Taking it to 11

Share trading in America: Warping the loom

Psychometrics: Tests of character

Chinese IPOs in Hong Kong: Cornering the market

Food for refugees: Fat help

Free exchange: Down to earth

Interplanetary settlement: The world is not enough

Bruce Springsteen: A whole damn city crying

Violence in England: Killing fields

Culture in Britain: Civilised and civilising

Poetry and the poet: A display of digging

The Federal Reserve: Man in the dock

Obituary: Shimon Peres: Intriguing for peace

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The British economy and Brexit: The right kind of budget

Brazil’s new president: A chance for a fresh start

Counter-terrorism: Scared? Make women disrobe

On China, Labour, assisted suicide, Yazidis, voting, long lunches, dogs, religion, Donald Trump: Letters to the editor

Uber: From zero to seventy (billion)

The Senate: Downballot blues

Bounty hunting: Delivery men

Zika in Florida: Boots on the ground

Political science: Trump and the academy

Johns Hopkins: Applied research

Lexington: In Trump they trust

Brazil: Time for Temer

The Latinobarómetro poll: Neither Trumpian nor Brexiteer

Bello: The unspeakable and the inexplicable

Uzbekistan’s president: An ailing despot

Australia and the Pacific: Foam flecked

Marriage in Japan: I don’t

Surrogacy in India: The end of paid labour?

Banyan: Agreeing to agree

Xinjiang: The race card

Social media: Posers for the party

Nigeria’s food crisis: Hunger games

South Africa: Uncivil war

Egypt’s economy: Of bread, bribes and fungus

Guinea and the haj: The pilgrims’ tale

The war on Syria’s doctors: The ultimate barbarity

France’s identity politics: Ill-suited

The future of the EU: Now what?

Germany’s refugee anniversary: Assimilation report

German populism’s heartland: East is east

Charlemagne: Magical misery tour

The economy since the Brexit referendum: Fact and fiction

Infrastructure: Ropy roads, rail and runways

Britain and France: Calais capers

Measuring crime: Bobbies on the spreadsheet

Polish businesses: Staying put

Bagehot: The ungovernables

Terrorism: Learning to live with it

Corporate taxation: The €13 billion bite

Drugs in America: Seizure-inducing

Xiaomi: Show me again

Serge Pun & Associates: Honest partner

Corporate activists in Germany: Stada and deliver

Zalando: Fashion forward

Schumpeter: Leaving for the city

Schumpeter: Correction: Own goal

China’s data: Superstition ain’t the way

Politics and statistics: Called to account

Stockmarket returns in America: The long arm of the Fed

Indian capital markets: Bank vigilantes

Private-equity search funds: Seek and we shall fund

Bad loans to shipping: That sinking feeling

Australia’s economy: Good on you

Free exchange: More spend, less thrift

Vaccines: Putting shots in the locker

Chronic-fatigue syndrome: Blood simple?

Textiles and thermoregulation: A cool shirt

The Anthropocene: Dawn of a new epoch?

The state of the world: Better and better

European history: The best of times

Indian politics: Raise him up

History of philosophy: Seeing the light

Fiction: You’re my baby

New American television: As real as a dream

Obituary: Roly Bain: Let us play

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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Education: How to make a good teacher

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn, saboteur

Fund management: Slow-motion revolution

Agricultural technology: Feeding the ten billion

The trade in albino bones: For the colour of their skin

Bacteria, Hainan, cotton industry, the Arab world, Essex, Brazil, quinoa, the far right: Letters to the editor

Education reform: Teaching the teachers

Hillary Clinton: Madam presumptive nominee

The campaigns: Heard on the trail

Republicans and welfare: Ryan’s ramble

Chicago’s museum wars: Light against dark

Swimming religiously: Scruples and splashes

Cannabis in the capital: Federal haze

Delta lives: Standin’ at the crossroads

Lexington: Playground tactics

Peru’s election: The fortunate president

Corruption in Guatemala: Bad apples everywhere

Canada’s daunting logistics: Airships in the Arctic

Bello: The Mexican blues

South Korea’s working women: Of careers and carers

Indian diplomacy: Modi on the move

Japan and money politics: Shameless shogun

Afghanistan-Pakistan relations: Frontier stand-off

War in Afghanistan: The general’s words

Banyan: Foreign lives

Wenzhou’s economy: It once was lost

China-United States relations: Aerial chicken

Morocco: The pluses and minuses of monarchy

Public spaces in the Middle East: No bed of roses

Ramadan in Saudi Arabia: Taking it to heart

Trade in east Africa: Worth celebrating

The killing of albinos: Murder for profit

Rome elects a mayor: Five-star surprise

European football championships: Paris match

Poland’s anti-government rallies: From Facebook to the streets

Iran’s Turkish connection: Golden squeal

How men and women vote: The lefter sex

Charlemagne: The politics of alienation

Consequences of Brexit: Beyond the fringe

Brexit brief: The charms of variable geometry

Airport expansion: Up in the Eire

Technology in prisons: Screens behind bars

Industrial evolution: The digital economy

University fundraising: Mortarboard in hand

Taxes and benefits: The echo chamber

Corporate governance: Shocking shopping

Bagehot: The new J-curve

Foreign aid: Misplaced charity

Where does the aid go?: Size matters

The future of agriculture: Factory fresh

Smart farms: Silicon Valley meets Central Valley

Agricultural biotechnology: Bugs in the system

Brain scan: Caleb Harper

Crops of the future: Tinker and tailor

Fish farming: Catch of the day

Animal husbandry: Stock answers

Towards 2050: Vorsprung durch Technik

The internet of things: Where the smart is

The internet of things: Job opening

Google’s other businesses: Alpha minus

Marketing rebates: Trust me

Fosun: Bloated but still bingeing

Household chemicals in South Korea: The germ of an idea

Airlines in South America: No El Dorado

Schumpeter: Their eyes on Albion

Asset management: Index we trust

Buttonwood: Secret agents

Banks v investors: Of snowballs and red ink

Dollar imperialism: The Fed’s tributaries

America’s economy: When barometers go wrong

The ECB buys corporate bonds: Unyielding

Free exchange: Sibyl faulty

Cancer treatment: On target

The international pharmaceutical market: Priced out

Carbon capture and storage: Turning air into stone

Fixing potholes: The hole story

Human evolution: Hobbit forming

Palestine: The view on the ground

Literary history: Born to be Wilde

Alternative medicine: Straight and crooked thinking

Emil Zatopek: Feet of fire

Brazil: Rich upon rich

Robert Rauschenberg: Ripe for reassessment

Obituary: Muhammad Ali: The greatest

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