Jul 13th 2013

Has the Arab spring failed?

The world this week

Leaders

The Arab spring

Has it failed?

Despite the chaos, the blood and the democratic setbacks, this is a long process. Do not give up hope

Europe’s zombie banks

Blight of the living dead

Europe’s financial system is in a terrible state, and nothing much is being done about it

Tax reform in America

Simpler, fairer, possible

An imperfect proposal could still improve America’s awful tax code: back it, Mr President

Reforms in Mexico

Choose Pemex over the pact

A successful cross-party pact has broken congressional gridlock. It must not become an obstacle to reform

Presents for presidents

Hogtied with a ribbon

The etiquette of giving gifts to sovereign countries requires updating

Letters

On India, gay marriage, protesting, Iran, Marc Rich, political pi

Briefing

Shopping

The emporium strikes back

Retailers in the rich world are suffering as people buy more things online. But they are finding ways to adapt

United States

Tax reform

Fixing the tax sieve

Sexual politics

More than half the electorate

Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions

A time to run?

Surveillance

Silence in court

Health reform

Mississippi spurning

Goat meat

The kids are all right

Lexington

The war of the words

Internship

The Americas

Mexican politics

Political horse-trading

Canada’s rail disaster

Playing with fire

Publishing in Brazil

Folding papers

Asia

Cambodia’s election

Not quite the usual walkover

Japan’s upper-house election

Gloves off

Landmines in Myanmar

Politically explosive

Taiwan’s economic isolation

Desperately seeking space

Kazakhstan’s capital

Laying the golden egg

China

Women and the property market

Married to the mortgage

Party campaigns

Masses of meetings

Chinese Braille

Feeling their way

Middle East & Africa

Egypt after the coup

It isn’t over yet

Egypt and reactions in the region

A mixed bag

Egypt’s Sinai desert

A haven for malcontents

Syria’s new opposition leader

Better than the one before?

United Arab Emirates

Sending the foreigners home

Ivory Coast’s grim past

With allies like this…

South Sudan

Vroom-vroom in the bush

Europe

The Sochi Olympics

Castles in the sand

France’s political right

Sarkozy Resartus?

Czech politics

Power grab

Crime in Germany

Gang Länder

Charlemagne

Lessons from Lagarde

Britain

Westminster politics

Ed’s big chance

European justice

More is less

Mail privatisation

Going postal

South West Trains

Tracks and control

York’s booming economy

Northern light

Bagehot

Claiming Andy

International

A villain’s guide to football

Welcome to the beautiful game

Cleaning up football

Ref!

Special report

A climate of change

Revolutionary potential

How many more to go?

Fertile Croissant

Political Islam

The power of religion

Youth

Give us a chance

The economy

The haves and the have-nots

Constitution-building

The long march

After Egypt’s double spring

Keep going

Business

Tech entrepreneurs in the Middle East

Start-up spring

Arab women entrepreneurs

Untraditional choice

Clothing firms in Bangladesh

Accord, alliance or disunity?

The Dell buy-out

Hobson’s choice

Chinese shipyards

Too sick to sail

BP and spill settlements

Deepwater, deep pockets

Schumpeter

Mayors and mammon

Finance & economics

The rising dollar

Green and back

EMI’s pensions buy-out

Paying for certainty

The Big Mac index

Value meal

Buttonwood

A new hope

Coffee prices

Brewed awakening

Financial data

Seconds out

Free exchange

Ad scientists

Science & technology

Birds’ magnetic sense

Columbarian Columbuses

The epigenetics of fat

Altered states

Do-it-yourself glaciers

The iceman cometh

Children’s intellectual development

Bedtime stories

Books & arts

Boom and bust in Asia

Going for growth

Civil liberties

Robocops

Christa Wolf

Divided soul

Life during the Blitz