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Security v freedom in the United States: Liberty’s lost decade

The future of oil: Yesterday’s fuel

The crackdown in Egypt: Democracy and hypocrisy

Financial-technology firms: Apps at the gate

Iran’s new president: Blood under the bridge?

Letters: On warriors, Colombia's infrastructure, remittances, illness, online education, India's nouveau riche, meaning

The global oil industry: Supermajordämmerung

Security, leaks and surveillance: In the secret state

Bradley Manning: Less than treachery

Justice: Locked in

Political dynasties (1): Exit Saxby, enter Nunn?

Political dynasties (2): Wary in Wyoming

The San Joaquin Valley: Down on the farms

High-speed rail in California: Riding to the rescue

Lexington: The power of a party

Defence policy in Canada: Strong. Proud. Ready?

Peru: Humala humbled

Drug legalisation in Uruguay: The experiment

Elections in Cambodia: The humbling of Hun Sen

America, Vietnam and Cambodia: Realpolitik redux

Thailand and Myanmar: Build it and they might come

The Salang tunnel: Dig deeper

Telangana: India’s new state

The death penalty: Strike less hard

Trade: Sabres sheathed

Banyan: A caged tiger

Egypt’s army: Ambitious men in uniform

Tunisian politics: Double trouble

Lebanon’s electricity: Blackout

Iran’s new president: Smoother operator

Hamas and the peace process: Not at the table

Mali’s election: So far, so good

Somalia and Somaliland: Muffled voices

The German election: An unforeseen controversy

The Dutch and the EU: A founding member’s apostasy

Kosovo’s Serbs: Bordering along the Ibar

A diamond heist in Cannes: Another French exception

Charlemagne: Vamos a la playa

Britain’s healthy export: How to sell the NHS

The state of the coalition: Enter the van men

Britain’s new towns: Paradise lost

The fracking divide: The beautiful north

Caring for amputees: Life on a limb

The geography of credit: Misadventure capital

Walking in London: Footfalls

Pope Francis: Style and substance

Cyber-security: Hats off

Aaron Swartz and MIT: Deadly silence

The future of advertising agencies: Omnipotent, or omnishambles?

Advertising to the super-rich: Posters for plutocrats

Siemens: Crisis, what crisis?

German industrial relations: Labour’s lost love

Carmakers and unions: Let’s go German

Brewers in the Middle East: Sin-free ale

Schumpeter: The father of fracking

Financial-technology firms: Revenge of the nerds

Buttonwood: A misleading model

Inspecting euro-zone banks: Make or break—or fudge

Europe’s banks: Ordeal by slide deck

Fertiliser prices: Rich in potassium

Singapore’s banks: The perils of a gilded age

Japan’s consumption tax: Taxonomics

Hedge funds after SAC: Edge fund

Free exchange: Boundary problems

Neuromorphic computing: The machine of a new soul

China’s return to greatness: Marching forward

Benjamin Disraeli: Off the pedestal

Why writers drink: Bottoms up

Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film: Above the fray

New fiction: Mind games

The paintings of Peter Doig: Plumbing depths

Lindy Boggs and Helen Thomas: A tale of two women

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