Aug 8th 2015

Set innovation free! Time to fix the patents system

Leaders

Innovation

Time to fix patents

Ideas fuel the economy. Today’s patent systems are a rotten way of rewarding them

Polish politics

The German test

Poland has never been so rich, safe and free. But under Andrzej Duda its inheritance is at risk

China’s leaders

Party on the beach

The world should worry more about China’s politics than the economy

Financial supervision

One regulator to rule them all

Officials have been given enormous discretion to corral finance. That has costs

Science’s unsolved mysteries

Life, the multiverse and everything

Science has remade the world, but scientists are not finished yet

Letters

On Jonathan Pollard, Singapore, families, America’s South, Africa, Britain and Europe

Letters

United States

Climate change and the president

Hotter than August

The wisdom of crowds

Sound of the Trump

Gay marriage: the aftermath

To have and to hold

The western drought

Concrete oasis

Brooklyn, the myth

Still bearded

Ferguson a year on

Some kind of normal

The Americas

Canada’s election campaign

Long, but not boring

Pollution in the Great Lakes

Evil orbs

Brazil’s space programme

Ten, nine, ten...

Asia

North Korea’s new monied classes

Bread and circuses

Politics in Australia

Choppergate

History wars in Taiwan

Examiner examined

India’s north-east

The spoils of peace

Religion in Indonesia

With God on whose side?

China

Beidaihe summit

Silent waves

Urban floods

At sea in the city

Middle East & Africa

Public services in the Arab world

Do-it-yourself

Israel and the West Bank

Cracking down on the settlers

Yemen’s civil war

Raising the stakes

South Africa and its courts

Judges uncowed

Saving the rhino

A dilemma of horns

Europe

Post-post-nationalist Germany

Strict order

Digital liberty in Germany

Wiki treason

Poland’s Law and Justice party

Less crazy after all these years

Doping in sport

All that glisters

Turkey’s fractious politics

Fighting on two fronts

Migrants in Calais

Learning from the Jungle

Britain

Interest rates

The only way is up

The establishment

See no evil

Immigration laws

Crisis mismanagement

Royal Bank of Scotland

British taxpayers lose £1 billion

The EU referendum of 1975

Well-fed men v mavericks

Equine offending

Foals rush in

International

Intellectual property

A question of utility

Business

The hotel industry

Life is suite

Mobile operating systems

Alpine Android

Iran’s car industry

Snapping into gear

Bosses’ pay

Who gets what?

Business and the law

Taking the gangster rap

Finance & economics

Spain’s economy

Back on its feet

Puerto Rico’s finances

Hurricane warning

Financial crime

Hard LIBOR

Asian currencies

Plunging like it’s 1998

Distracted teens

The dreamboat next door

The Federal Reserve

The Tarullo show

Free exchange

Rule it out

Schools brief

How did biology begin?

Life story

Science & technology

The home of the future

Summon the comfy chairs!

Ebola fever

Cluster bombing

AI and the fine-wine market

Quants and quaffs

Antibiotic resistance

Zoology to the rescue

Precambrian animals

Asexual discrimination

Books & arts

The Arab autocracies

Burning down their house

New American fiction

Searching and slouching

Myanmar’s political opening

With a cause

Mozambican fiction

Of lions and men

Archaeology in Egypt

What lies beneath?

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary

Obituary: Mullah Omar

In the land of the blind