Jul 18th 2015

Hiyatollah!

The world this week

Leaders

Nuclear Iran

Hiyatollah!

The nuclear deal with Iran is better than the alternatives—war or no deal at all

A bad week for Mexico

Of prisons and petroleum

The opening of Mexico’s energy market and the busting open of its top-security jail are linked

The euro zone

Pain without end

A deal between Greece and Europe averts one disaster, and hastens the next

Embedded computers

Hacking the planet

The internet of things is coming. Now is the time to deal with its security flaws

Asian values

Happy 50th birthday, Singapore

The uptight island-state has much to celebrate. But to thrive in the future, it will have to loosen up

Letters

On doctor-assisted dying, divestment, dangerous driving, NHS, Greece

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Iran comes out of the cold

The special Ramadan feast

A momentous day for Iran as it signs a nuclear deal with America that may yet transform the Middle East

The Iran nuclear accord

Making the world a bit safer

An imperfect deal that is better than the alternatives

United States

Las Vegas

Viva again

Educating technologists

Business high school

Selling sex

Hold the Backpage

Presidential penitentiary

Prison states

Maternal mortality

Exceptionally deadly

Lexington

What would Reagan do?

The Americas

Mexico’s great escape

The long arm of the lawless

Comparing prisons

Breaking out is hard to do

Local politics in Argentina

How the other half votes

Bello

Transatlantic reflections

Asia

Afghanistan and the Taliban

Distant hopes

Vietnamese literature

Writers’ block

The South China Sea

See U in court

Banyan

The lose-lose election

China

Mining safety

Shaft of light

Human rights

Uncivil

Middle East & Africa

Africa’s jihadists

Jihafrica

Mine-detecting elephants

The whiff of danger

Israel and the world

Netanyahu pivots to Asia

Pollution in the Gulf

A dust-up over dust

Europe

Greece and the euro

From rage to resignation

The Greek deal

Hemlock, not champagne

Small business in Greece

Angry in Athens, livid in Lesbos

German views of Greece

Austere? Your word, not ours

Migrants in the Balkans

Funnelling them forward

Russian holidays

Banned from foreign beaches

Charlemagne

The dark clouds of peace

Britain

Migration

No milk, less honey

Power

Softly does it

English votes for English laws

A foxing question

The inequality puzzle

Some measures are more equal than others

Homelessness

Mean streets

Forensic evidence

Identity crisis

Housing and productivity

Two birds with one stone

Bagehot

This house is falling

International

Athletic performance

Citius, altius, fortius, numerus

How much have golfers improved?

No gutties, more glory

Special report

Singapore

The Singapore exception

Land and people

Seven million is a crowd

Politics

Performance legitimacy

Social policy

The social contract

The economy

The years that were fat

Inequality

The rich are always with us

Business and finance

Many spokes to its hub

Foreign policy and national identity

A little red dot in a sea of green

Business

Oil in Latin America

The good oil boys club

Digital maps

Location, location, location

Detroit’s car workers

The state of the union

EBay and PayPal

Better off alone

Schumpeter

Boomtown, USA

Finance & economics

The future of the City

A chance of showers

Buttonwood

Losing a tailwind

Infrastructure in Brazil

Not many aboard

China’s economic data

Right on target

The Big Mac index

A few dollars less

Free exchange

Sorry to burst your bubble

Science & technology

Cyber-security

Their own devices

The New Horizons mission

Pluto’s icy mountains

Aviation

Volting ambition

Social mobility and epigenetics

No good deed goes unpunished

Protecting coffee crops

Beetles and bugs

Books & arts

Outsized art

Gigantism

Computers and spying

Lookout

Harper Lee’s new novel

Scout grows up

Molluscs

Shell company

Animals

Reading their minds

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Markets

Global threats

The Economist commodity-price index

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

Obituary

Obituary: Yevgeny Primakov