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Emerging economies: The Great Deceleration

America’s public finances: The Unsteady States of America

Zimbabwe’s election: Don’t let the crocodile cheat again

Japan’s election: Licence to grow

Demography and monarchy: Very long till you reign over us

Letters: On Trayvon Martin, the Arab spring, Britain, teaching, forestry, Google, retail, the moon

Emerging economies: When giants slow down

Detroit’s bankruptcy: Can Motown be mended?

The other Detroit: Buy to the sound of gunfire

Retirement benefits: Who pays the bill?

Zoning laws: Biking and hiking, but no parking

Obama and the middle class: Better off with Barack?

Digital dating: Young, single and nearby

Lexington: What if Mitt Romney had won?

Lexington: Internship

Obesity in Latin America: Battle of the bulge

Argentina and YPF: Flogging a Dead Cow

Politics in Colombia: Peace and brotherly love

Japan’s upper-house election: Redemption

Australia’s boat people: The PNG solution

Buddhism v Islam in Asia: Fears of a new religious strife

Hydropower in Tajikistan: Folie de grandeur

The search for civic virtues: The unkindness of strangers

The rule of law: Bizarrely consistent

The rule of law: Architectural bombast

Zimbabwe’s vote: Poll dancing

Yemen’s interior: A reluctant refuge for al-Qaeda

South Sudan’s government: Going for the nuclear option

Egypt’s crisis: The generals strengthen their hand

Iraqi violence: The nightmare returns

Syria’s war: The new normal

The peace process: Tailwind for doves

Poland’s government: The seven-year itch

Riots in France: Trouble in Trappes

Russian politics: The Navalny power game

Religion in Turkey: Erasing the Christian past

Charlemagne: Sire, there are no Belgians

Eating habits: The British at table

Newspapers: A decent proposal

Newspapers: Pride and prejudice

Britain’s recovery: Hold your breath

Falling fires: No hot ashes

Blocking porn: Default Cameron

Homelessness in London: The spike

The port of Liverpool: Lock and quay

Britain and the EU: Channel vision

Bagehot: A passage to Mayfair

GPS jamming: Out of sight

Female genital mutilation: Still bleeding

The revival of Latin: Resurrexit vere

Tech firms and their founders: Monarchs versus managers

TSMC: A fab success

Australia’s gas explorers (I): The next Qatar?

Australia’s gas explorers (II): Beach in the outback

Italian fashion: French invasion

Company taxes: Minimise this

The college-athletics business: Basket cases

Schumpeter: Thinking twice about price

Schumpeter: Correction: Spanish energy

Commerzbank: Das slog

Buttonwood: Holiday hassles

Interest rates in China: A small step forward

Globally systemic insurers: Premium members

Interchange fees: Card sharps

The Karachi Stock Exchange: Inefficient frontier

Free exchange: Penury portrait

Mass extinctions: Small but deadly

What is truth?: A la recherche du temps inconnu

What is truth?: Mostly harmless

Robot plants: Putting down roots

Sleep and the phases of the Moon: Lunacy?

Franz Kafka: Nervous brilliance

The Korean war: The best doggone army

John Kennedy’s final days: When America wept

New American fiction: Those sad young literary men

The life of Jesus: No angel

New British fiction: Hard-boiled

New British fiction: Correction

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