Jul 9th 2016

The Italian job

Leaders

Italian banks

The Italian job

Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis

China’s middle class

225m reasons for China’s leaders to worry

The Communist Party tied its fortunes to mass affluence. That may now threaten its survival

Immigration and politics

Aussie rules

A points system would not reconcile Britons to immigration

Hillary Clinton’s e-mails

Notes on a scandal

The Democratic nominee needs to change the way she operates

War in Iraq

The dangerous chill of Chilcot

A foreign-policy calamity is laid bare, providing valuable lessons—and one red herring

Letters

On female genital mutilation, law, Central Asia, Brexit

Letters to the editor

Briefing

America’s forests

Ravaged woodlands

Stricken trees provide clues about how America will adapt to global warming—but little hope that it can be averted

United States

Stem-cell clinics

A dish called hope

Competitive eating

Glorious gluttony

Education

O-levels

Religious-liberty laws

Left, right

The Americas

Education protest in Mexico

A battle to feed young minds

Argentina’s economy

The cost of truth

Asia

Mainstream politics breaks down

The churn down under

Change of command in the Philippines

Talk Duterte to me

Cambodian politics

Sex, power and audiotape

Indian politics

Modi-fication

Hindi movies

Yes, he Khan

Terrorism in Asia

Jihad’s new frontier

China

Bad planning

A bigwig purged

Anti-smoking legislation

Butts resist kicks

Middle East & Africa

Kurdistan

Dream on hold

Iraq and Syria

Islamic stateless?

Zimbabwe’s begging bowl

Bailing out bandits

Divorce in Nigeria

Rings fall apart

Europe

German inheritance law

Free will

Scandinavia and Russia

Just visiting

The Balkans and the EU

Balking at enlargement

Labour law

Going posted

Charlemagne

Looking to Mutti

Britain

The Conservative leadership

The battle for Downing Street

The Brexit procedure

Article of destiny

The Chilcot report

Iraq’s grim lessons

International

Immigration systems

What’s the point?

Marriage and citizenship

Get hitched or hike

Special report

Chinese society

The new class war

Chinese nationalism

East, west, home’s best

Family, identity and morality

A nation of individuals

Public opinion

Crowd control

Business

Boardroom brawls, Chinese style

Vanke panky

Israel’s tech industry

Talent search

Kingfisher Airlines

Flying blind

After the Brexit vote (I)

Rules and Britannia

After the Brexit vote (II)

Picking losers

Finance & economics

Banks in oil-exporting countries

Lending at $47 a barrel

China’s debt

Coming clean

Taxes in California

Stop dreamin’

Free exchange

X marks the knot

Science & technology

Self-driving cars

Motoring with the Sims

Mitochondrial donation

Three’s company

Biomimetic engineering

Flight of fancy

Books & arts

Innovation in China

Out of the Master’s shadow

Political biography

A work in progress

Child development

The brain game

20th-century history

Vantage point

Painters’ paintings

Beyond influence

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary

Unanswerable questions

Obituary: Elie Wiesel