Apr 19th 2014

Insatiable

The world this week

Leaders

Russia and Ukraine

Insatiable

The cost of stopping the Russian bear now is high—but it will only get higher if the West does nothing

Urbanisation

Where China’s future will happen

For the world’s sake, and its own, China needs to change the way it builds and runs its cities

Arab democracy

The lesson of Algeria

Even if the Arab spring has sorely disappointed, dictators, even benevolent ones, are not the answer

Europe’s bond bubble

Don’t go potty on the periphery

Southern Europe’s economies are in worse shape than tumbling bond yields suggest

The pope as a turnaround CEO

The Francis effect

About to take over a crisis-ridden company with a demoralised workforce? Turn to a Roman case study

Letters

On India, offshore accounts, climate change, Japan, illegal booze, SWAT teams

Briefing

The Ukraine crisis

Boys from the blackstuff

The government in Kiev has no obvious counters to Russian-inspired occupations in the industrial east

The military balance

Gathering storm

Russia would find holding territory in Ukraine harder than taking it

Financial sanctions

Turning off the taps

There is more that could be done to punish Russia

United States

Women, work and children

The return of the stay-at-home mother

Adultery in New England

Love free or die

Los Angeles

Clipped wings

Infrastructure

Highways to hell

Parole and technology

Prison breakthrough

Christian films

They are risen

Lexington

The Jack Kemp revival

The Americas

Brazil’s economy

The 50-year snooze

Bello

Will the real Mr Santos please speak up

Business in Costa Rica

Intel outside

Canada’s war on doorknobs

Knobless oblige

Clarification: Bello

Asia

India’s political heartland

Riding the wave

Pakistan’s Islamists

Returning with a vengeance

Japan reboots

Back on track?

Cambodian politics

Time to deal

South Korea

A ferry sinks

Bangladesh

The game of the river

Banyan

A tricky rebalancing act

China

Disillusioned office workers

China’s losers

Media

Scooped

Middle East & Africa

Algeria’s election

The old man won’t go away

Syria’s civil war

The ebb and flow of horror

Libya’s eastern city

If only the bombs would go away…

Palestine

No room for a new inn

South Africa’s trial

Justice, after all, is being done

Kenyan farmers

Insure my cows

Europe

Greek politics

Remaking the political landscape

French politics

Vallsmania

Turkey’s prime minister

Erdogan v judges, again

Italian politics

Silvio Berlusconi, social worker

Culture wars in Ukraine

History lessons

Charlemagne

Russia’s friends in black

Britain

The industrial north

Never walk alone

Women voters

Ladies in red

Grocery shopping

Aisle be damned

Sue Townsend, RIP

Teen spirit

Reforming the NHS

Bitter medicine

Student loans

Fees fi fo fum

Bagehot

The hated body politic

Recruiting priests

Revving up

International

Chinese tourists

Coming to a beach near you

The abuse of migrants

And still they come

Special report

China

Building the dream

Spreading the wealth

A billion shoppers

The rural-urban divide

Ending apartheid

Local government

Emerging from the shadows

Urban sprawl

People, not paving

The city as pastiche

Dreaming spire

Greenery

Let us breathe

Politics

The urban voice

A new society

Pushing the boundaries

Business

Coal

The fuel of the future, unfortunately

Business in Russia

From bad to worse

Technology firms

Status shift

Business aviation

Fasten seat belts

Peugeot’s revival plan

Striving for the podium

Business in the UAE

Improving the desert climate

Made in Spain

A pressing issue

Schumpeter

Munk’s tale

Finance & economics

Private equity

Barbarians at middle age

Bond trading

FICC and thin

Danish mortgages

Something rotten

State-owned banks in Bangladesh

From cancer to pimple

Microfinance in Bangladesh

Rehabilitation and attack

Structural reform in southern Europe

Patchy progress

Post-office banking

Put your money where your mail is

Ratings agencies

Credit where credit’s due

Free exchange

Nice work if you can get out

Science & technology

Reusable rockets

Up and down and up again

An evolutionary game

Eggs-actly

Global warming

Another week, another report

Fern evolution

Time and chance

Psychology

Hunger strikes

Books & arts

American cinema

A man in full

Kim Philby

Rogue mate

Fiction

After dark

America in Afghanistan

Misjudgments

Fiction

Chronicle of a death foretold

London theatre

Man of the moment

Correction: Hummingbird

Economic & financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Taxing wages

Markets

Obituary

Eleanor Drew