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America, Russia and Syria: The weakened West

In praise of art forgery: The emperor’s new pictures

Big companies: A world turned upside down

Inequality: Growing apart

Britain’s new interventionism: Hands off

Letters

The world’s biggest firms: Back on top

America, Russia and Syria: Style and substance

The budget: Once more to the brink

Marijuana legalisation: Tokers’ delight

Gun massacres: Mass shootings are up; gun murders down

Justice in New Orleans: Of trolls and mistrials

Public health: The risk of rabid raccoons

Lexington: The American Dream, RIP?

Brazil and the United States: More in sorrow than anger

Mining in the Dominican Republic: Sickness and wealth

The demise of Acapulco: Diving off a cliff

Violence against women in Latin America: Everyday aggression

Politics in Taiwan: Daggers drawn

Communal violence in India: An old curse returns

North Korean posturing: Picking up steam

Justice and vengeance in Bangladesh: Swing votes

Electricity in Japan: Power struggle

Banyan: Flaws in the diamond

The politics of dam-building: Opening the floodgates

Learning to speak proper: Spread the word

Syria’s war: An unlikely band of brothers

Iranian diplomacy: His biggest smile

Algeria’s leaders: The dead live longer

China and Africa: Little to fear but fear itself

Rwandan elections: Safe and sorry

German election: Final push

Polish protests: Tusk’s troubles

Sex-selective abortion: Gendercide in the Caucasus

France: Weird about Wednesday

Greece: On the edge

Bulgaria: Birth of a civil society

Charlemagne: They are coming

Business policy: The new interventionism

The Premier League: Sticks and stones

Video games: Pixel pressures

Cannabis: Spliffs and butts

Polling and politics: The swing set

What Mike Lynch did next: After Autonomy

London Fashion Week: Rags to riches

Rhodes and Oxford: Giving it up for Cecil

Bagehot: The prophetic liberal

Poverty: Growth or safety net?

Charitable foundations: A spoonful of sugar

Pharmaceuticals: Ranbaxy’s chronic maladies

Commercial aircraft: Bombardier lights a fuse

E-commerce: Tencent’s worth

Electric vehicles in Europe: Plugging away

Electric bicycles: Two (motorised) wheels better

Selling art online: Enter Amazon

Training Saudi businesswomen: Managing under the abaya

Gambling: Losing streak

Twitter: Tweeting the IPO launch

Supermarkets in Africa: The grocers’ great trek

Schumpeter: The future of the Firm

Monetary policy in America: Taper tiger

The Federal Reserve: When Larry sparked rally

The capital-freeze index, again: This spreadsheet is different

The economics of equity research: Analyse this

Latvian lessons: Extreme economics

Buttonwood: Smoke and mirrors

The foreign-exchange market: Special FX

Free exchange: The next frontier

Monetary policy after the crash: Controlling interest

Unbreakable cryptography: The devil and the details

How animals perceive time: Slo-mo mojo

Satellite propulsion: It’s not rocket science

Subterranean biology: Life in the labyrinth

The birth of Bangladesh: Blood meridian

Strategic bombing, 1939-45: A costly, brutal failure

New American fiction: Place and memory

The father of history: Translating Herodotus

The lure of pearls: Iridescence

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