Jun 1st 2013

Towards the end of poverty

Leaders

British politics and the young

The strange rebirth of liberal England

Young Britons have turned liberal, both socially and economically. Politicians need to get on their side

The world’s next great leap forward

Towards the end of poverty

Nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years. The world should aim to do the same again

Colombia and the FARC

The price of peace

An understandable thirst for justice should not block a deal that would save lives

Dealing with Russia

Tougher love needed

When it comes to understanding Vladimir Putin, trust Angela Merkel’s instincts not Barack Obama’s

Low-emission cars

Flat batteries

The electric car stalls in the race to be the green wheels of the future. That is not a tragedy

Letters

Letters

On Taiwan, dams, health care, New York, Malaysia, Microsoft, being brainy, quotes

Briefing

Poverty

Not always with us

The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030

United States

Killer drones

Out of the shadows

Nuclear power

Fracked off

Urban revivals

On the waterfront

Boy Scouts

Gays welcome

Religion in public life

Reading Dawkins in a cabin

Health and safety

The menace of moo-shine

Agriculture

At the trough

The Americas

Colombia and the FARC

Digging in for peace

Football in Brazil

Into extra time

Demography in Latin America

Autumn of the patriarchs

Demography in Chile

Child bribe

Asia

India’s ungoverned spaces

Out of the trees

Dealing with Pakistan’s extremists

The hawk and the dove

Japan’s constitution

Back to the future

Japan and South-East Asia

Hand in hand

China

Ideological debate

Drawing the battle lines

Bashing Japan

Staged warfare

Middle East & Africa

South Africa’s economy

Muddle through will no longer do

The African Union at 50

Shooting your own feet

The UN and the World Bank

Rare co-operation

Syria’s war and diplomacy

Argument and arms

Syria’s political opposition

Disarray

Europe

Putin’s Russia

Repression ahead

Sweden’s riots

A blazing surprise

Italy’s government

Let off

France’s finance minister

Moscovici, vidi, vici

German education and training

Ein neuer Deal?

Alcohol in Turkey

Not so good for you

Charlemagne

Milda or Europa?

Britain

Politics and the young

Generation Boris

The gnome revolt

Little and large

Tackling terrorism

Reaction time

NHS tourism

Free-for-all

Ethnic minorities

Suburban dreams

Policing Scotland

One force to rule them all

International

Citizen journalism

Foreign correspondents

Cigarettes

No butts

Internet campaigning

Any requests?

Technology Quarterly

Monitor

Allo, allo

Difference engine

Everlasting light

Reinventing the train

Ideas coming down the track

Hypersonic missiles

Speed is the new stealth

Business

Online labour exchanges

The workforce in the cloud

The server market

Shifting sands

Mexican housebuilders

Dropping a brick

Smithfield Foods

Pigs will fly

Murugappa Group

The harder path

Schumpeter

Boomerang bosses

Finance & economics

China’s shadow banks

The credit kulaks

European monetary policy

The negative option

Digital money

Taking a liberty

The austerity debate

Dismal pugilists

Japan’s equity and bond markets

Shocking

Crowdfunding in America

End of the peer show

Science & technology

Martian space flight

Red dreams

Arctic ecology

Sacred geese

Books & arts

The rise of Spanish

Hats off

The Galleon insider-trading case

Ship of knaves

Capitalism in America

About turn

The end of the Soviet Union

Walking dead

The Cannes film festival

Subtle story

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary