The world this week
Jan 5th 2013
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The troubling similarities between the fiscal mismanagement in Washington and the mess in the euro...
The country’s dangerously nationalistic new cabinet is the last thing Asia needs
A horrible attack could prove a turning point for India’s women
Why the Irish deserve a helping hand to leave their bail-out programme
The coalition partners are growing apart. That is bad for their electoral prospects, and for the...
Can internet activism turn into a real political movement?
Barack Obama wrings an 11th-hour deal on taxes from John Boehner and the Republicans, but...
Barack Obama’s health-care law is supposed to be in full effect in 2014. Implementing it will not...
Though brief and unequal, the first Gulf war left a durable imprint on America
Three years after a devastating earthquake, the “Republic of NGOs” has become the country of the...
A weakened president falls out with fellow Peronists
Shinzo Abe’s appointment of a scarily right-wing cabinet bodes ill for the region
The capital’s last street-level view of Mount Fuji is about to be obscured
Park Geun-hye prepares to address some of her father’s legacy
Gujarat’s chief minister emerges as a strong candidate for prime minister
China’s new leaders seek to present a friendlier public face, but oppose bold new demands for...
Foreign universities find working in China harder than they expected
The Islamists are fast losing their popularity, but their opponents are still too weak and divided...
Though violence has dipped since June, Iraqis are still a sad and fearful bunch
A dispute over the benefits and banality of modern technology
A rival right-winger may be rattling the incumbent prime minister
One of Africa’s most miserable countries looks as unstable as ever
The success of Italy’s likely next government will depend on its ability to control the hard left
So much for industrious Germans doing things on time
Will the EU reimpose visas for travellers from Balkan countries?
Did a former finance minister tamper with evidence to protect his family?
François Hollande remains intent on introducing a punishing top income-tax
Russian civil society is outraged by a law that bans Russian orphans from being adopted by American...
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have less to fear from the other side than from their own furious ranks
The health secretary has made an intriguing start in a tough job, by styling himself a patients’...
Motorway service stations, long a national embarrassment, are finally improving
Britain’s drinking culture is deeply unhealthy. So is the politics of drink
Artificial cooling makes hot places bearable—but at a worryingly high cost
It is a good time to be a corporate investigator
Herbalife is shorted
How technology could transform an ancient sport
Subways are spreading fast
Technology is starting to change language-learning
The emerging-world consumer is king
Why is the world’s most harmful fossil fuel being burned less in America and more in Europe? The...
Europe’s energy policy delivers the worst of all possible worlds
The Gulf emirate is as flashy as ever, but it still has structural problems to solve
Investors are optimistic but 2013 is unlikely to be a bumper year
Banks face another punishing year of fines and lawsuits
Malaysia leads the charge in Islamic finance
The Tokyo and Osaka bourses get together
Ireland’s success in attracting foreign investment has its drawbacks
Can China feel its way across the turbulent waters of financial reform?
Simultaneous translation by computer is getting closer
Snake venom is being used to cure, rather than kill
Silica extracted from rice husks makes for greener tyres
America’s best-known geographer shows what there is to learn from early man
The OBL thriller has landed
Macedonia writes a new story for its capital
Teaching children about history, nationalism, and right and wrong
Rita Levi-Montalcini, biologist, died on December 30th, aged 103
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