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Peer-to-peer rental: The rise of the sharing economy

A growth manifesto: A little faster, George?

Shareholder rights: Power to the owners

The Dow’s new high: Rally drivers

Sergei Magnitsky: The enemy within

Latin America: Hugo Chávez’s rotten legacy

Letters: On Italy, Syria, corporate taxes, the sequester, teaching finance, Texas

Venezuela after Chávez: Now for the reckoning

The sequester: On to the next crisis

Marijuana legalisation: Tax, and tax again

Health policy: Let’s Move Slowly!

Energy and the environment: Green steps

South Carolina’s congressional election: Same again, please

Urban coyotes: Dogged persistence

The Harlem Shake: What’s in a meme?

Lexington: When not in Rome

Central America: Out of control

El Salvador’s gangs: The year of living less dangerously

Unrest in Bangladesh: A nation divided

Tensions on the Korean peninsula: Kim blows up again

The Philippines and Malaysia: Intrusion confusion

Forestry in Japan: Killing two birds with one tree

Banyan: Another country

Banyan: Correction: Japanese prisons

Tibet’s future: The limits of despair

How other minorities cope: Never say Dai

National People’s Congress: Bones and shoals

The Muslim Brotherhood: It’s hard being in charge

The Gaza Strip: Hamas on the defensive

The Tigris and Euphrates: Less fertile crescent

Kenyan politics: And the winner is…

South Africa’s police: Bad cop, bad cop routine

German politics: Of scissors and biting

Spain’s economy: Not yet the new Germany

Czech politics: The new man in the hrad…

Italian politics: After the party

Hungary’s central bank: Orban’s soldiers

Charlemagne: Anatomy of a failure

Bagehot: Where the wind blows

Consumer spending: Dropping shopping

Infrastructure: Bunged up

Northern Ireland: The melting pot

Britain’s immigration crackdown: No entry

The Conservative Party: Toil and trouble

Selling health care: A private function

Migrant benefits: Once more unto the breach

BT and Sky: Arms race

Bird numbers: Out of the woods

The Roman Catholic church: Flocks and shepherds

Monitor: Picture imperfect

Monitor: Coach potatoes

Monitor: Fool’s platinum?

Monitor: Music to the ear

Monitor: Let’s have a heart-to-heart

Monitor: Flights of fancy

Monitor: The law and the profits

Monitor: Unforgotten songs

Difference engine: After 3D, here comes 4K

Telepresence robots: Your alter ego on wheels

The sharing economy: All eyes on the sharing economy

Biomedical scaffolding: Under construction

Underwater networking: Captain Nemo goes online

Brain scan: The podfather, part III

Corporate governance: Shareholders at the gates

Executive pay: Fixing the fat cats

Google: Don’t be ugly

Railways in Canada: Pacific turnaround

Microsoft’s antitrust fine: Sin of omission

Business and gay rights: From Stonewall to payroll

Cars in China: Still racing ahead

Fashion: Kenya on the catwalk

Spanish business: Foreign gain, domestic pain

Schumpeter: Pope, CEO

Schumpeter: Internship

America’s stockmarket: Better than the alternatives

Buttonwood: Desperately seeking yield

Credit in the euro area: Still crunching

Bankers’ bonuses: Tilting the playing field

American banks: De-stressing

China’s economy: Three meetings, many partings

Ending deflation in Japan: Waging a new war

Free exchange: Net benefits

Free exchange: Internship

The Brain Activity Map: Hard cell

Navigation: Crystal gazing

Cometary billiards: Have you heard, it’s in the stars

AIDS research: Cured of HIV?

Hugo Chávez: Goodbye, Presidente

Sylvia Plath: The blood jet of poetry

Behind the New Deal: Shady trading

Women’s Institutes in the war: Building Jerusalem

Japan’s tsunami: Triple horror

Royal treasures: Henry the eighth he was, he was

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