• 09 Feb ' 15:09

  • Arab revolutions

    How to set Syria free

    

  • Technology and the Obama campaign

    Boffins wanted

    

  Iran

  Closer to take-off

  Momentum is growing for an Israeli airstrike on Iran—with or without American support(16)

  • Neither Iran nor America wants confrontation just yet
  • Leader: Negotiation must still be the aim of sanctions(51)
  • Grim times in Shiraz, Iran’s ancient capital(5)
  • Did Obama give up on diplomacy too soon?(125)

  Modest Mario

  The president of the European Central Bank confirms a Greek bail-out deal(4)

  • The history of fiscal federalism may offer the euro zone some lessons(2)
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  The long road to Damascus

  There are signs that the Syrian regime may become still more violent

  • Leader: How to set Syria free(49)
  • It looks like a civil war(117)
  • Dennis Ross on the diplomatic response

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  Russia's protests

  Just making our feelings known

  Large street protests are transforming Russia’s political landscape—with unpredictable consequences(1)

  • The Kremlin is unlikely to offer the protesters many concessions(22)
  • The prime minister and president-to-be hones his tactics in the face of protests(63)
  • Leader: Putin should clean up the Kremlin and modernise the economy—for Russia’s sake and for his own(224)

  Academic publishing

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  • The blogosphere has opened mainstream economics up to new attack
  • One of the best media businesses is also one of the most resented

  New government, old problems

  Cross voters and corruption: a familiar menu for Romania’s new rulers

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  It goes on and on

  Egypt's newly elected Islamists struggle to keep up with events

  • Wael Ghonim on Egypt's uprising
  • Violence at a football match in Egypt(38)

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  India’s last hangman

  An executioner’s tale

  A dying family business

  

  Indecency and television

  Giving the FCC the finger

  Are indecency rules outdated?

  

  Why zebra are striped

  Horse sense

  Are zebra stripes just an elaborate insect repellent?

  

  Basketball’s surprising new star

  We have a Linner

  The new toast of New York

  

  Underpaid bosses

  They really exist

  

  Obituary

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Success left no dent in this poet's reclusive modesty

  

  1. Malev stops flying: Survival of the fittest
  2. Fuel economy: Difference engine: Going along for the ride

  Radio days

  Buttonwood's notebook - 9 mins ago

  Venezuela's presidential campaign, airports in Brazil and Mexican politics

  Americas view - 14 mins ago

  Bigger network, fewer nets

  Babbage - 38 mins ago

  Starving the beast

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  Churn for the better

  Free exchange

  Swinging job markets

  Free exchange - 3 hrs 13 mins ago

  Hey, life is unfair

  Democracy in America - February 9th, 19:00

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• 09 Feb ' 08:43

  • Debate

    Social networking is good for you

    

  • Catholics and contraceptives

    Relishing the culture wars

    

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  Brinkmanship in Athens

  Tough fiscal negotiations run into hard political reality(6)

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  Rather than uniting behind Mitt Romney, the GOP may bicker all the way to Tampa(259)

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  • Super PACs are altering the dynamics of the race(10)
  • All of our election coverage on one page

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  Groupon

  The dotcom darling disappoints investors

  

  Charles Murray's latest, and opinions unclouded by data

  1. Empiricism in politics: On opinions beyond the reach of data

  1. Protests in Cairo: The beautiful game turns ugly

  Do you have to be a poet to edit poetry?

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  Digital highlights, February 11th 2012

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  Nashi exposed

  Eastern approaches - 59 mins ago

  Try, try, try again

  Newsbook - 1 hrs 8 mins ago

  Fewer birthers

  Graphic detail - 1 hrs 58 mins ago

  Relishing the culture wars

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  Heating up

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• 09 Feb ' 02:59

  • China, Europe and carbon emissions

    

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  Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals(83)

  • The blogosphere has opened mainstream economics up to new attack (Dec 2011)(235)
  • One of the best media businesses is also one of the most resented (May 2011)(24)
  • The old scientific powers are starting to lose their grip (Nov 2010)
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  Schumpeter remarks on Groupon's most unhappy discount

  Banyan boggles at Indonesia's drink-driving laws

  1. Banyan: The devil in the deep blue detail

  1. Violence in Mexico: Plateaus and pitfalls

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• 08 Feb ' 21:06

  Thursday February 9th 2012

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  1. Islam and homosexuality: Straight but narrow

  1. Scientific publishing: The price of information

  At a loss

  Schumpeter - February 8th, 23:48

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• 08 Feb ' 15:06

  • Scientific publishing

    

  The ECB seems to consider writing down the value of its Greek bonds to the price it paid for them(25)

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  Airlines' emissions

  Not free to fly

  China objects to European efforts to curb its airlines’ emissions(2)

  • Being forced to buy permits to emit carbon dioxide could be a new source of profit for some airlines(6)
  • The EU annoys airlines, energy companies and Canada(17)
  • Europe is right to include airlines in its emissions-trading scheme (Jul 2011)(27)

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  Gay marriage

  A right to be called "married" in California

  The central issue in California's debate over gay marriage is linguistic

  

  Islam and homosexuality

  Straight but narrow

  A debate about homosexuality in Islam is beginning. But in Muslim lands persecution—and hypocrisy—are still rife

  The Republican nomination

  All over the map

  An interactive guide to the Republican race

  

  1. The Republican nomination: The Santorum surge

  1. Competition in Chile: The shine comes off
  2. The politics of fairness: Fairly confusing

  Link exchange

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  Not free to fly

  Schumpeter - February 8th, 18:55

  The weekly papers

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  A right to be called "married" in California

  Johnson - February 8th, 18:11

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• 08 Feb ' 10:00

  • The euro crisis

    Mario blinks

    

  • Billion-dollar baby

    

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  Synaesthesia

  Smells like Beethoven

  Using the word “note” to describe an odour may be more than just metaphor(8)

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  • The curious case of the musical synaesthete (Mar 2005)
  • Some people see numbers as colours (Jul 2000)

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  Andrew Marr on Queen Elizabeth II

  Our most famous enigma

  The author of a new biography of the queen considers the paradox of a deeply private public figure(2)

  • Royal bow(64)
  • Six decades on, the Queen is busier than ever
  • Seen and thus believed: Britain falls back in love with its dutiful, tireless monarch(19)
  • Topic page: Queen Elizabeth II

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  Accounting in China

  Seeing the forest for the trees

  Corporate governance in China is lousy

  

  Which MBA on Oxford University's proposed Thatcher Centre

  Film publicity in Hollywood

  They don't make 'em like they used to

  An exhibition of promotional materials from the early days of Hollywood

  

  Video

  Wael Ghonim on Egypt's uprising

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  1. Banyan: The devil in the deep blue detail

  1. Pakistan's security state: Reading the Taliban

  On opinions beyond the reach of data

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  Still Mitt by a mile

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  Mario blinks

  Free exchange - 54 mins ago

  Poland's debt trumps Germany's and America's

  Eastern approaches - 1 hrs 55 mins ago

  Modern worker, dated benefits

  Free exchange - 1 hrs 16 mins ago

  Satellite spy

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  They don't make 'em like they used to

  Prospero - 2 hrs 29 mins ago

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• 08 Feb ' 04:51

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  • The Republican nomination

    The Santorum surge

    

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  Myanmar and its neighbours

  Among friends

  Didn’t he do well? Singapore celebrates a reformist ex-general(10)

  • The government moves, and gets its rewards from the West(19)
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  America's primary elections

  The Republican candidates

  If it's Wednesday, it must be Santorum. An interactive guide

  

  Business schools

  The 21st century knocks

  Kellogg decides to offer more one-year MBAs

  

  Babbage

  Europe considers new anti-counterfeiting legislation, Google gets new glasses and a British organisation introduces a new computer called Raspberry Pi

  Canada wants China to import more seal meat

  How Egypt rose up

  Wael Ghonim, a Google marketing executive, was imprisoned after helping co-ordinate the initial stages of the uprising in Cairo. We caught up with him in London

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  Messy mobile telephone licences in India, how the private sector has boosted gay rights and the merger of Glencore and Xstrata

  Economist Debates

  Social networking

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  1. Islam and homosexuality: Straight but narrow

  1. Mitt Romney's campaign: Fit for fighting?

  Why what is billed as "fair" is not

  Blighty - 21 mins ago

  The Santorum surge

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  Fantasy frontiers

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  Google's goggles

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• 07 Feb ' 22:54

  • Islam and homosexuality

    Straight but narrow

    

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  The world’s nastiest illnesses get some belated attention

  

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• 07 Feb ' 18:32

  Wednesday February 8th 2012

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  1. Birtherism 2012: To the nation born

  1. Pakistan's security state: Reading the Taliban

  Interviewing Andrew Marr about the Queen

  Bagehot's notebook - 3 hrs 45 mins ago

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• 07 Feb ' 14:07

  • Monetary policy

    Sympathy for Ben Bernanke

    

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  Romania

  Free falling

  The government collapses after a tough start to the year

  • Romania's winter of discontent(83)
  • The government struggles to contain a growing protest movement(85)
  • A former prime minister is jailed for corruption

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  • America’s rich should pay more, but there is no need to raise their income-tax rates (Jan 2012)
  • How to raise the highest rates without doing too much damage (Jan 2012)
  • Who exactly are the 1%? (Jan 2012)

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  1. Syria: Moscow rules

  1. Remembering Raoul Wallenberg: A necessary example of tolerance
  2. Mitt Romney's campaign: Fit for fighting?

  The political valence of controversy

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  Executive pay and performance

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  Sympathy for Ben Bernanke

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  Mitt's prerogative

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  Free falling

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  Make labour more expensive?

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  Revolution 2.0

  Babbage - 3 hrs 23 mins ago

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