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Maoists prepare for power (28 June 08:38) |
| Nepal's ageing prime minister stands aside. A leading Maoist will probably replace himNEPAL'S Maoists, surprise victors of a general election in May, are now claiming their spoils. On Thursd... |
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A one-horse race (27 June 05:29) |
| Robert Mugabe will win his "election", but he is under pressure to quitZIMBABWE'S run-off presidential election went ahead on Friday June 27th with only President Robert Mugabe competing. Ea... |
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Bowled out, not over (26 June 06:54) |
| A banker bowls his way through the aftershocks of terrorTOO often the literary novelist?s downfall?or shortfall?is plot. An Irishman brought up in the Netherlands and now living in New York,... |
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Nation-building for dummies (26 June 06:54) |
| A helpful if turgid primer on sovereignty and legitimacyAFGHANISTAN, Iraq and Somalia are among the 50 or so countries that can be described as failed or failing states. Although there are m... |
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Potential turbulence (26 June 06:54) |
| A man and his adopted country slide into normalityFISHING, journalism, and the death throes of the Swedish social system are the unpromising ingredients of Andrew Brown?s thought-provoking a... |
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Love the one you?re with (26 June 06:54) |
| One man's slippery perspective on his emotional weatherTHE omniscient third person can often be a tedious fictional narrator. Authors tend to use this device when they want to show off their... |
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Bits and pieces (26 June 06:54) |
| Cy Twombly?s sculptures are little known and quite surprisingMANY of the most delightful pieces in the Tate show of art by Cy Twombly, an elusive American artist commonly described as a post... |
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The killing fields (26 June 06:54) |
| Long a symbol of freedom, America's wild horses may soon be no moreIN 1964 a new car was launched at the New York World's Fair: the Ford Mustang. Both its name and its galloping horse logo, ... |
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Arvind v Arvind (26 June 06:54) |
| A contrarian look at India's boomINDIA has always produced more economists than it can consume locally. It has enough of them to run the country with plenty left over to fill prestigious pos... |
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On civil liberties, innovation, pensions, credit derivatives, politics, mosquito nets, tax, Volkswagen, the Netherlands, driving, Iraq, beer (26 June 06:54) |
| SIR ? You suggested that the British people support liberty in the abstract, but that their ?resolve wilts?when specific security gains are promised? (?Mary Poppins and Magna Carta?, June 21... |
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The meaning of Bill Gates (26 June 06:54) |
| As his reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominatedWHEN Bill Gates helped to found Microsoft 33 years ago there was a company rule that no employees should work for a bos... |
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How to get him out (26 June 06:54) |
| By forcing the opposition to abandon the election, Robert Mugabe has undermined his positionIT IS hard to believe that the horrors inflicted by Zimbabwe?s ruler on his own people could get w... |
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Doing good by doing very nicely indeed (26 June 06:54) |
| In support of profiting from the poorFOR years Muhammad Yunus reigned as the public face of microfinance. It seemed only right when, in 2006, the Bangladeshi economist cum social entrepreneu... |
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The importance of being in earnest (26 June 06:54) |
| The Fed and the Bank of England are likely to have to raise rates to retain their credibilityWHAT are central banks in rich countries to do? Inflation is on the march again on both sides of ... |
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It?s later than you think (26 June 06:54) |
| Israel is threatening to attack Iran?s nuclear sites. This may not be a bluffWITH oil prices at their present highs and Iraq at last making tentative progress towards stability, the last thi... |
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The politics of hip-hop (26 June 06:54) |
| Can rap change the world??WRITING about music is like dancing about architecture,? intoned Elvis Costello, a pop star. So a columnist approaches the subject of hip-hop (which includes rap) w... |
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The cracks are showing (26 June 06:54) |
| America?s tradition of bold national projects has dwindled. With the country?s infrastructure crumbling, it is time to revive itTHE Mississippi River pushed relentlessly past dozens of levee... |
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Humbug all round (26 June 06:54) |
| Not the finest week for the candidatesAS HEADLINES go, ?Politician Breaks Promise? is hardly ?Man Bites Dog?. But Barack Obama?s broken promise to accept public funds for his presidential ca... |
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Crying into their beer (26 June 06:54) |
| Locals fear more job lossesMISSOURI?S politicians, from the lowliest alderman to the governor himself, are up in arms. Its Republican senator, Kit Bond, and its Democratic one, Claire McCask... |
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Freezing the sun (26 June 06:54) |
| A double blow for solar energyIT SEEMED so promising?mirrors sprawled across desert land in the scorching south-west delivering clean electricity and helping to wean Americans off imported f... |
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Living together (26 June 06:54) |
| The climate is fantastic, and cross-border business is thriving. But the cartels are a big problemIT WAS a quiet Friday night in El Paso for Sandra, a young student. Her friends had gone acr... |
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The price of a tomato (26 June 06:54) |
| Next stop, SubwayA CAMPAIGN to improve the low wages and awful labour conditions of tomato pickers in Florida has notched up a substantial victory over farm owners and their biggest clients,... |
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Imperial instincts (19 June 06:18) |
| America?s longing for an empire has a long historyNEARLY 50 years ago, when William Appleman Williams, one of the 20th century?s most important historians of diplomacy, drew attention to Ame... |
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Aristocracy at work (19 June 06:18) |
| A new life of a general who moved through court and battlefield with equal verveARISTOCRACY seems such a quaint form of government now that it is sometimes hard to remember that it was once ... |
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Stephen Carter's ?Palace Council? (19 June 06:18) |
| Murder among the Harlem eliteAS AMERICANS debate this summer whether they can really believe Barack Obama and his challenge to change Washington politics, one novel is likely to become the t... |
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Pointed guns (19 June 06:18) |
| Examining the power behind the throne FOR more than half the 60 years it has been independent, Pakistan has been ruled by its soldiers. The army has mostly stepped in when inept civilian gov... |
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A cultural history (19 June 06:18) |
| Snoots and jabsPUGILISTS and aesthetes are not necessarily in opposing corners. In a history of the sport that dates back to Homer, Virgil and other ancient fight fans, Kasia Boddy, a lectur... |
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Hot love in the cold war (19 June 06:18) |
| The Great Game at homeTERROR, stagnation, exile, hope and disillusion are the fabric of Russian history in the last century. These are also the backdrop for Owen Matthews?s poignant history ... |
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On the Democrats, Norman Stone, South Africa, Afghanistan, the Federal Reserve, oil, corporal punishment, Hong Kong, suburbs (19 June 06:18) |
| SIR ? Your explanation of Hillary Clinton?s failure to win the Democratic nomination was good on the tactical errors she made, but you did not acknowledge the larger issue of identity politi... |
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DNA all over the place (19 June 06:18) |
| Clutter is not just an evolutionary adaptation, but also a business opportunityAN OBJECT is worth more to you if you already own it. Researchers found that some Cornell students who would ch... |
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Africans, please help (19 June 06:18) |
| Zimbabwe needs its neighbours to help rescue its people from hellSINCE Robert Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election at the end of March to Morgan Tsvangirai, he has stopped ... |
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The dangers of Mexico-bashing (19 June 06:18) |
| America's politicians damage their own country by insulting its southern neighbourA CENTURY ago Porfirio Diaz, a Mexican dictator, lamented the fact that his country was ?so far from God and... |
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The future of energy (19 June 06:18) |
| A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might thinkSINCE the industrial revolution 200 years ago, mankind has depended on fossil fuel. The notion that this might change is hard to con... |
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Just bury it (19 June 06:18) |
| It is time to accept that the Lisbon treaty is dead. The European Union can get along well enough without itVOTERS have once again shot an arrow into the heart of a European Union treaty. Th... |
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The class warrior (19 June 06:18) |
| Jim Webb would make a poor running-mate for Barack Obama IN 1983 Jim Webb spent a while working as a journalist in Lebanon. ?On any given day in Beirut, one never knew who was going to shoot... |
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The Big Sort (19 June 06:18) |
| Americans are increasingly choosing to live among like-minded neighbours. This makes the culture war more bitter and politics harderSOME folks in Texas recently decided to start a new commun... |
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Twist and shout (19 June 06:18) |
| The problems of pleasing everyoneJOHN MCCAIN'S characterisation of the Guantanamo decision comes at an awkward time. This week, he strayed perilously close to being indicted for the deadly s... |
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Stuck with Guantánamo (19 June 06:18) |
| The implications of the court's ruling granting detainees habeas corpus rightsFOR the third time in four years, the Bush administration's policies on the detention of suspected terrorists ha... |
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Beauty and the Geek (19 June 06:18) |
| A new bill proposes more visas be allocated to fashion modelsIT'S not often that fashion models are paired with IT workers, except in the lurid fantasies of computer geeks. But because of a ... |
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As high as an elephant's eye (19 June 06:18) |
| Havoc in the MidwestDON HOLST, surveying his farm near Walcott, Iowa, on June 17th, saw glistening pools where corn stalks should have been. Where the water had receded the earth was muddy, ... |
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The voice of labour (19 June 06:18) |
| What union members wantOUTSIDE one of John McCain's town-hall meetings stands a throng of protesters. There are anti-war Quakers and someone stoically sweating in a polar-bear suit, but the ... |
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A wary friendship (19 June 06:18) |
| Amid bad temper and wounded pride, Mexico and the United States inch towards compromise on a plan to boost the fight against drug crimeIN AMERICAN psyches, the war with Mexico of 1846-48 is ... |
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The Lo down (12 June 06:39) |
| A useful account for anyone considering investing in hedge fundsTHE basic idea behind efficient market theory is that it seems implausible that there are $20 notes lying on pavements waiting... |
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Falling planes and poisoned swords (12 June 06:39) |
| A case of exploding mangoesTHERE are many mysteries in Pakistan. The violent deaths of several political leaders, including General Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto, have never been explained. ... |
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A little Gatling music (12 June 06:39) |
| The story of Richard Gatling's remarkable killing machineCOULD he really have been so naive? ?It occurred to me?, wrote Richard Gatling in 1877, ?that if I could invent a machine?a gun?which... |
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Lost land (12 June 06:39) |
| A sad and beautiful account of a much changed landscapeIT IS something of an irony that a land whose timeless beauty has survived basically unchanged since biblical times is being transforme... |
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The great heritage war (12 June 06:39) |
| The battle over the ownership of and trade in ancient objects?THEY are all criminals, especially the Americans,? an eminent archaeologist declares. The evidence? They collect antiquities. Th... |
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Bored by philosophy (12 June 06:39) |
| Richard Rorty and the sociological analysis of academeRICHARD RORTY, who died last year at 75, was one of the most talked-about thinkers in America. Every professional philosopher in the Eng... |
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On international banking, text-messaging, European corruption, Thailand and the Philippines, distances in America (12 June 06:39) |
| SIR ? Your otherwise excellent special report on international banking (May 17th) perpetuated a myth that should surely by this time have been firmly put to rest. If a house price or an equi... |
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Hawk alert (12 June 06:39) |
| Central bankers are talking tough. They may be talking themselves into troubleYOU can hear the talons scratching. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, first adopted a hawkish tone ... |
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