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India: In search of a dream

The euro: The rage in Spain

Venezuela’s presidential election: Henrique and Hugoliath

Nigeria’s insurgency: Hold your nose and talk

Britain's economy: Heading out of the storm

Letters: On Texas, Hong Kong, Brazil, Alawites, democracies, Colombia, circumcision, sex, beer

Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box

Barack Obama and black voters: Returning to the mountaintop

Heath care, the old and the election: Medicare, ultimate edition

Swing states: Virginia: The incomer effect

Campaign finance: Money trouble

The campaign: Heard on the trail

Infrastructure: They aren’t building that

Lexington: A mandate of slackers

Argentina: The president and the potbangers

Chile’s economic statistics: For richer—or poorer

Corruption in Brazil: Worth the wait

Diplomacy: Embassy-mates

Japanese politics: Aberration

Cambodia’s economy: Not a complete stitch-up

Water wars in Central Asia: Dammed if they do

Japan’s salarymen: Feeling the pinch

North Korea: The faint smell of dog fart

Australia’s Northern Territory: Northern lights

Banyan: Fighting monsters

Rural activism: Working the system

Rural activism: 58,500 tonnes of diplomacy

China’s rich list: To get rich is not always glorious

Nigeria’s crisis: A threat to the entire country

South Africa’s strikes: The fear of contagion

Mozambique’s riches: All fired up

Iran: Behind the rants, uncertainty grows

Libya and its militias: Who’s in charge?

Egypt and Gaza: A honeymoon that wasn’t

Euro crisis: The end of the euro’s Indian summer

Italian politics: A waning star?

Italian politics: Pig’s head masks and togas

Germany’s living history: Chancellor of unity

Turkish politics: A historic trial

Georgia’s election: Pain and grief in Georgia

Charlemagne: The other moral hazard

The economy: Mustn’t grumble

Jaguar: The cat returns

The Liberal Democrats: Nick of time

Whistleblowers: Strengthening the resistance

Gambling: Goodbye to all that

England’s pro-growth towns: Texas in the shires

Bagehot: For the birds

Horseracing: All bets off

Beer and work: Frothy prices

Ammunition depots: Storing up risk

Ammunition depots: Correction: State Department

Aim higher

Politics: Power shifts

The candidate

The economy: Express or stopping?

On a hiding to something

Education: A billion brains

Cities: Concrete jungles

India abroad: No frills

The tragedy of the commons: An uphill walk

News Corporation: Have I got news for you

AirAsia: Spreading its wings

Mining in Indonesia: Bumi’s a bum deal for investors

Maps on smartphones: Lost

Security firms in Zimbabwe: Guarded optimism

Auction houses: From Picasso to Qi Baishi

An Indian conglomerate in trouble: Scotch on the rocks

Schumpeter: Fixing the capitalist machine

Schumpeter: Corrections: Illegal logs and American beers

Schumpeter: Clarification: BCCL

The next crisis: Sponging boomers

Public debt: Easy does it

The Big Four accounting firms: Shape shifters

Buttonwood: The secrets of Buffett’s success

Reforming LIBOR: The $300 trillion question

Tax alchemy: Tech’s avoidance

Bitcoin: Monetarists Anonymous

Currency protests: Money talks

Free exchange: An incurable disease

Cheap smart weapons: Rockets galore

Industrial robots: Baxter gets to work

A novel coronavirus: Fingers crossed

Medicine: Nosing ahead

Marine biology: Scents and sensibility

Poland at war: The vivisection of Poland

The drug industry: Pick your pill out of a hat

J.K. Rowling’s book for adults: Beyond Harry Potter

William Henry Seward: Out of the shadow

Elderly pets: Time to go, or perhaps not?

Islamic culture: Islam in Paris

Islamic culture: Correction: Bronze at the Royal Academy

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