• 24 May ' 06:11

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    The Economist explains

    Cuba's revolutionary golfers

    

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  Hamid Karzai in India

  Afghanistan's president is trying to pull off a dangerous balancing act between two of his country's big neighbours

  

  

  Auditing in China: Expending some goodwill

  Schumpeter -60 mins ago

  

  Procter & Gamble: The return of A.G.

  Schumpeter -50 mins ago

  

  The week ahead: May 24th 2013: Going, going, gone

  Newsbook 1 hrs 40 mins ago

  

  Google: On display

  Schumpeter 1 hrs 15 mins ago

  Sport and society: Reflections

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  War and the law: Droning on

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  The Economist explains: Why is playing golf a revolutionary pursuit in Cuba?

  The Economist explains May 23rd, 23:50

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• 24 May ' 00:46

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    The euro crisis

    The sleepwalkers

    

  • Debate

    Break up the big banks?

    
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  After 50 years of brutal military rule, Myanmar’s opening has been swift and startling

  • Why Myanmar’s military rulers are giving power to the people

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  • Apple's tax arrangements: Biting criticism

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• 23 May ' 19:29

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  Syria's fighters

  An interview with Jabhat al-Nusra

  

  

  Art Basel Hong Kong: Local pride

  Prospero 3 hrs 54 mins ago

  

  Algeria’s president: Improving every day?

  Pomegranate 3 hrs 41 mins ago

  May 23rd, 21:43

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  • Press freedom: Fox News and Julian Assange

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• 23 May ' 15:02

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    American politics

    Memo to the president

    
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  The war on terror

  The beginning of the end

  Barack Obama weighs, once more, the balance between security and freedom 0

  • Leader: The prison at Guantánamo Bay is a deeply un-American disgrace. It needs to be closed rapidly416

  Special report: Myanmar

  A Burmese spring

  After 50 years of brutal military rule, Myanmar’s democratic opening has been swift and startling 0

  • The story so far0
  • Suu Kyi for president?0
  • Leader: Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi both have much more to do

  The IRS scandal

  Who will tame the taxman?

  The IRS has behaved badly, but the real villain is Congress 9

  • It's time to do away with 501(c)(4) status98
  • The scandal should bring IRS reform, not the agency's abolition47

  How about diplomacy?

  Russia and America try a bit of jaw-jaw

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  • A guide to the key rebel forces in Syria22

  The euro crisis

  The sleepwalkers

  In the euro zone, desperately in need of a boost, no news is bad news

  • Charlemagne: Hobbling behind America7
  • Spain’s pain is likely to continue...0

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  Obituary

  Bill O’Hagan pioneered Britain’s sausage renaissance

  

  Another Somalia?

  Piracy off west Africa is on the rise

  

  The Man Booker prize

  Lydia Davis makes for an inspired choice

  

  Microbiomics

  Viruses help keep people disease-free

  

  The Economist explains

  How does copyright work in space?

  

  One of the bloodthirstiest commanders of Argentina's "Dirty War" dies

  

  Unbreakable Dimon

  JPMorgan Chase 's shareholders prefer to keep the devil they know

  

  

  The war on terror: The beginning of the end

  Lexington's notebook 11 mins ago

  

  Recommended economics writing: Link exchange

  Free exchange 1 hrs 6 mins ago

  

  Sports rights: Fighting for possession

  Game theory May 23rd, 17:32

  The IRS scandal: Let’s not call the whole thing off

  May 23rd, 17:21

  

  Syria's fighters: An interview with Jabhat al-Nusra

  Pomegranate May 23rd, 16:33

  

  Special report: Myanmar: A Burmese spring

  May 23rd, 16:27

  

  The Economist: Digital highlights, May 25th 2013

  Newsbook May 23rd, 16:09

  • Mexico's cosseted elite: Named and shamed

  • 1An atrocity in LondonReturn to old-style terror
  • Banyan: Seas of troubles

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• 23 May ' 07:54

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    An atrocity in London

    Old-style terror

    
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    How Myanmar will connect up Asia

    

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  • Cleaning up the Party (Dec 2012)

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  Latin American geoeconomics

  A continental divide

  The region is falling in behind two alternative blocks: the market-led Pacific Alliance and the more statist Mercosur 74

  • The race to head the World Trade Organisation highlights a regional rift
  • Slow progress in talks between Mercosur and the EU43
  • A dispute over trade in cars exposes contrasting attitudes to globalisation in Latin America’s biggest economies127

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  Taxing for some

  America's corporation-tax receipts falter even as company profits soar

  

  Crime and punishment

  Why does it cost so much for prisoners to keep in touch with their families?

  

  Forza Formabilio

  An Italian start-up that brings together designers, manufacturers and customers to create furniture

  

  

  African development: Standing up for women

  Baobab 56 mins ago

  

  Daily chart: How Myanmar will connect up Asia

  Graphic detail 1 hrs 54 mins ago

  Crime and punishment: Cell phones

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  Jorge Rafael Videla: Death of a “Dirty War” criminal

  Americas view 2 hrs 14 mins ago

  

  The Man Booker International prize: Short but sweet

  Prospero 2 hrs 53 mins ago

  

  Babbage: Part one: Uncomfortable reading

  Babbage 2 hrs 31 mins ago

  

  Babbage: Part two: We won't screw it up

  Babbage 2 hrs 41 mins ago

  • Press freedom: Fox News and Julian Assange

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• 23 May ' 00:50

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    The Economist explains

    Copyright in space?

    

  Corruption in China

  Checked and balanced?

  Officials try to rein in corruption without undertaking political reform 11

  • Our correspondents discuss the Chinese Communist Party's latest attempts to rein in corruption2
  • The most important challenge is to check the corruption, both great and small, that runs throughout the society and threatens to discredit the Communist Party and ultimately undermine its right to rule (Dec 201236

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• 22 May ' 18:01

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    Marketing

    No longer voodoo

    
  • Video

    Psychiatry's guidebook

    
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  Immigration reform in America

  The path to the path

  Immigration reform overcomes a hurdle in the Senate, but obstacles remain 1

  • How not to make the economic case against reform238
  • Who creates jobs? Immigrants do50

  The European debt crisis

  Can it be inflated away?

  Highly unlikely, says one bank 29

  • Europe needs more German inflation69
  • Economists debate the merits of higher inflation

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  How Syrians are drawing on language used in Iraq

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  The city’s football field gets more crowded

  

  Blasphemy laws won't solve anything; their absence won't solve everything

  

  Civic crowdfunding

  Online start-ups are rallying citizens to revamp their neighbourhoods

  

  

  The Economist explains: How does copyright work in space?

  The Economist explains 1 hrs 21 mins ago

  

  Iran’s presidential election: Don’t let them run!

  Pomegranate 1 hrs 35 mins ago

  

  Technology: Out of harm's way

  Free exchange 3 hrs 9 mins ago

  

  David Cameron's mid-term blues: Stormy weather

  Blighty May 22nd, 20:34

  

  Lebanon and Syria: Hizbullah may be hurting itself

  Pomegranate May 22nd, 20:19

  Immigration reform: The path to the path

  May 22nd, 20:09

  

  Tunisia’s Salafists: A growing concern

  Pomegranate May 22nd, 19:05

  • Apple's tax arrangements: Biting criticism

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• 22 May ' 10:51

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    Barack Obama's presidency

    W’s apprentice

    
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    Taxing companies (or not)

    

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  A fast-changing state leaves its mining roots behind

  

  Technology and politics

  Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?

  

  Guatemala

  A former dictator’s conviction may not be the end of a tragic story

  

  Why have containers boosted trade so much?

  

  Côte d’Ivoire, where birthing conspiracies abound, will soon let parents register births via a mobile-phone app

  

  Football in New York: Team game

  Game theory 1 mins ago

  

  Boeing: The Dreamliner flies again

  Gulliver 13 mins ago

  

  The debt crisis: Can it be inflated away?

  Buttonwood's notebook 2 hrs 27 mins ago

  

  Religion, freedom and social peace: The effect of laws, or their absence

  Erasmus 2 hrs 12 mins ago

  

  Technology and politics: Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?

  Democracy in America 3 hrs 8 mins ago

  Babbage: May 22nd 2013: Apple says no

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  El Anatsui at the Royal Academy: Art-world alchemy

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  • Seas of troubles
  • : Abe’s master plan

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• 22 May ' 03:44

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    Iraq and Syria

    A Syrian awakening?

    
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  Going viral

  A speedy way to make a vaccine 0

  • As new viruses emerge in China and the Middle East, the world is poorly prepared for a global pandemic36

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  Bye-bye, Burma

  One name is losing ground to the other. Even Barack Obama thinks so

  

  Daily chart

  The most successful video-game consoles

  

  A "Daily Show" for India

  English-language satire tests the politicians

  

  Climate change, not just wildfire, is threatening California’s chaparral

  The DSM-5: Attention, everyone

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  • Japan and Abenomics: Once more with feeling

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• 21 May ' 20:56

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    North Korea

    Follow my leader

    

  • Houghton Hall's masterpieces

    Summer holiday

    
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    The Economist explains

    Why do containers matter?

    

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  Japan and Abenomics

  Once more with feeling

  The Shinzo Abe shaking up Japan’s economy seems a different man from the one whose previous premiership was marked by nationalistic posturing. He isn’t 111

  • Leader: Shinzo Abe has a vision of a prosperous and patriotic Japan. The economics looks better than the nationalism522
  • The man with a plan12
  • Appraising Abenomics

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  • Leader: The least-bad option
  • Turkey's assertive Syria policy is under attack at home51

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  Fox News and Julian Assange

  

  The Economist explains: Why have containers boosted trade so much?

  The Economist explains May 21st, 23:50

  

  The masterpieces of Houghton Hall: Summer holiday

  Prospero May 21st, 22:41

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  • 4Religious politics in Israel: Who’s a Jew?

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