The determinators: Europe takes on the tech giants

Lexington

Bet on O’Rourke

Watching the watchmen

Chicago’s troubled police force gets federal oversight

Exorbitant privilege

Why legacy places should be abolished

Was it stolen?

Democrats raise doubts about Georgia’s election for governor

Kafkaesque justice

The Supreme Court rules that ICE can deport green card holders

A rubbish idea

New York’s proposed bottle bill may actually hurt recycling

Trudeau’s woes

Voters are cooling towards Justin Trudeau

Bello

Why Prosur is not the way to unite South America

Long-service leave

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s strongman, resigns

Splittists

Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, is challenged by a former underling

For the chop

Are Japan’s ubiquitous personal seals endangered?

Deity in a T-shirt

North Korea’s propaganda outlets are changing their style

Crumbling

Fatal bridge collapses are common in Mumbai

Banyan

The Christchurch massacre has challenged New Zealanders’ self-image

No tactic is too underhand

India’s election campaign is racked by dirty tricks

Old habits die hard

China’s strong-arm approach to drug addiction does not work

Conflicted Confucians

A hit TV series in China skewers cranky old parents

Chaguan

China’s leaders should study James Bond films

Talk of spring

Protests are making a comeback in the Arab world

The man who would be prime minister

Benny Gantz must convince Israelis that he can protect them

An epidemic of violence

Why are Ebola clinics in Congo being attacked?

Beira’s battering

Tropical Cyclone Idai may have killed more than 1,000 in Mozambique

Trial and terror

An ex-colonel in the Lord’s Resistance Army goes on trial in Uganda

Twilight of Tsipras

Syriza, Greece’s ruling party, is headed for electoral defeat

Not so silky

Italy’s plan to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative ruffles feathers

If the Caputova fits

A young liberal is poised to win Slovakia’s presidency

To life

Lithuania starts to pay respect to its murdered Jews

On second thoughts

Health care in Ireland leaves much to be desired

Charlemagne

The difference between Italy and Spain

Brextension time

Theresa May asks the EU to extend the Article 50 deadline

Stay of execution

Firms that planned for a no-deal Brexit in March must now postpone

Doctors, ordered

A shortage of staff is the biggest problem facing the NHS

Hope for the hopeless

What next for the Liberal Democrats?

G’daytime television

Relocation shows reflect poms’ enduring fascination with the antipodes

Of plonkers and planners

Britain’s tower blocks, once symbols of poverty, are now for the rich

Bagehot

Marching has returned as a force in British politics

Far right and very wrong

Why white nationalist terrorism is a global threat

Clouded vision

Masayoshi Son prepares to unleash his second $100bn tech fund

Bartleby

Drivers wanted

Ericsson and Nokia

Are security concerns over Huawei a boon for its European rivals?

From Czechoslovakia, with love

A two-wheeler reflects the stops and starts of Indian capitalism

Flying too closely

Regulatory capture may be responsible for Boeing's recent problems

Schumpeter

Business takes on the baddies

Terminal velocity

FIS’s $43bn takeover of Worldpay

Buttonwood

Why book value has lost its meaning

Urged to merge

Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank start discussing a merger

Academic sexism

A dispiriting survey of women’s lot in university economics

Free exchange

Alan Krueger, natural talent

Cry of cicadas

The insect apocalypse is not here but there are reasons for concern

Medical devices

A way to charge pacemakers using the heart’s own muscle

Strong pot is hot

High-potency cannabis, or frequent use, raises the risk of psychosis

Big people, big gods

What came first: all-seeing gods or large societies?

Wax and gold

Satire is flourishing in Ethiopia

Spies like us

The comical, true-life story behind “Our Man in Havana”

You only live twice

Salvatore Scibona’s exhilarating new novel

The AI will see you now

A doctor’s hopes for digital medicine

They could be heroes

Britain is in the midst of a Victorian-style statue mania

Happiness and growth

Economic growth does not guarantee rising happiness

Darting, seizing, winning

Obituary: Atta Elayyan was killed on March 15th

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