Sep 6th 2014

The long game

The world this week

Leaders

Ukraine, Russia and the West

The long game

The sad reality is that Vladimir Putin is winning in Ukraine. The West must steel itself for a lengthy struggle

Democracy in China

The struggle for Hong Kong

The territory’s citizens must not give up demanding full democracy—for their sake and for China’s

The future of cars

Wireless wheels

Connected cars will make driving safer, cleaner and more efficient. Their introduction should be speeded up

Brazil’s presidential election

The measure of Marina

Marina Silva could well be Brazil’s next president. She has to do more to prove she deserves that

Germany’s digital future

Googlephobia

Germany’s opposition to American technology firms is short-sighted and self-defeating

Letters

On Europe’s borders, oil, shareholders, decimals, civil reform, Singapore, Tilbury, LBJ

Letters to the editor

Briefing

The war in Ukraine

Reversal of fortune

Now willing to use Russian troops more or less openly in eastern Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has made decisive progress toward his goals

The economic battleground

Too smart by half?

Effective sanctions have always been hard to craft

United States

Muslim America

Islamic, yet integrated

Detroit’s bankruptcy

Owe-town

Contract workers

Who’s the boss?

The abuse of mobile-phone data

The two towers

The Georgia governor’s race

Deal or no Deal

Dragon Con 2014

The geek shall inherit the earth

Lexington

Playing poker with the world

Ivy League grade inflation

Grade expectations

The Americas

Marina Silva

The Silva surger

Mexico’s president

Turning on the charm

Asia

Politics in Pakistan

Army in the middle

Malaysian politics

If you can’t beat them, charge them

North Korean cheerleaders

Give me a Y

Japan’s new cabinet

Shuffling the deck

Banyan

Roll up for the one-man band

China

Democracy in Hong Kong

Political city

Middle East & Africa

The war against jihadists

Unsavoury allies

Jihadist ideology

The slow backlash

Israel and Syria

A plague on all those houses

The politics of Israeli settlements

Another thousand acres

Nigeria’s jihadists

The other caliphate

Ebola

Unintended consequences

Europe

German politics

The Alternative’s astonishing ascent

French politics

Rocard’s return

France’s priapic president

Valérie thanks François

Romania’s presidential election

Ponta v the liberals and the ladies

Nagorno-Karabakh

A mountainous conflict

Charlemagne

Dance of the powers

Britain

The Tories

David Cameron against the world

Counter-terrorism

No more away games

Scottish finance

A case of the jitters

Aviation capacity

Limited skies

Breaking up the Treasury

Your money or your life

Garden cities

Ebenezer good

Centrica

A turning circle

Surrogacy

Greater expectations

Bagehot

The loneliness of Alistair Darling

Technology Quarterly

Monitor

Biohackers of the world, unite

Monitor

Doctoring devices

Monitor

In the moment of the heat

Monitor

The language of the internet of things

Monitor

The big sleep

Difference engine

Where gadgets go to die

Military technology

The unsheltering sky

Demolition technology

Bringing the house down

The connected car

Smartphones on wheels

Air-traffic control

Free flight

Brain scan

Welcome to my genome

Business

Germany’s Googlephobia

Closing the circle

Alibaba

After the float

Italian businesses

Keeping it in the family

Digital news

Read all about it

Executive pay

The final reckoning

Schumpeter

Over the horizon

Finance & economics

Wage stagnation

The big freeze

Buttonwood

American exceptionalism

China’s shadow banks

A moving target

Brazil’s economy

Better than Ukraine

Commodity trading

End-to-end game

Free exchange

Pardon the disruption

Science & technology

The search for MH370

Deep secrets

Neanderthals

Lowbrow art

Canada’s oil sands

The steam from below

Books & arts

The world economy

How to fix a broken system

Geopolitics

A bit of a mess

Africa

The unlucky continent

Writing

Talking sense

American slavery

Blood cotton

Jewellery design

Asian star

Correction

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

The Economist poll of forecasters, September averages

The Economist commodity-price index

Markets

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

International

The internship

Generation i

Obituary

Obituary