Apr 5th 2014

Can anyone stop Narendra Modi?

The world this week

Leaders

India’s election

Can anyone stop Narendra Modi?

He will probably become India’s next prime minister. That does not mean he should be

Turkey’s elections

Be merciful, great Sultan

After his unexpectedly big win, Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be magnanimous

The Cuban embargo

If not now, when?

This would be an especially good time for a change in America’s relations with Cuba

Higher education

Making college cost less

Many American universities offer lousy value for money. The government can help change that

Democracy and lethargy

Britain’s idle Parliament

The legislature has stopped doing things, so it might as well start undoing things

Letters

On Russia, Brazil, guns, policing, Taiwan, infrastructure, college fees, Jay-Z, Turkey, crocodiles and hippos

United States

Higher education

Is college worth it?

Political corruption

Gun-banner and gun-runner?

South Carolina politics

Conservatives of every hue

Money in politics

Sky’s the limit

Property in Miami

Erectile resumption

Silicon Valley on TV

“Girls” for geeks

Lexington

The home-school conundrum

The Americas

Investment in Cuba

Strait talk

Elections in Quebec

The s-word

Scandal in Mexico

A trashy tale

Bello

A political FUTbol

Asia

Indonesia’s elections

Democracy’s big bang

Filthy India

Mucking it up

Japanese whaling

Harpooned

Gays in Central Asia

Criminal relations

Banyan

Don’t count on it

China

Pensions and retirement

Paying for the grey

Abandoned babies

Bundle of tragedy

Politics and the mafia

Web of intrigue

Middle East & Africa

Egypt’s probable president

Pretending to be a civilian

The Saudi succession

Next after next…

Israel and Palestine

Last-ditch bargaining

Iran’s universities

Breathing again

South Africa

Why invest?

Ghana

He won’t give up

Kenya

Muslim martyr

Europe

France’s new government

Valls triste—or happy?

Turkey’s local elections

Erdogan on a roll

Hungary’s election

Four more years

Water in Berlin

The moisture down below

Charlemagne

Trading places

Britain

Politics

Winding down

Ever-smaller offices

Pressed suits

Commuting

Metroland spreads out

Scottish independence

Nothing sticks

Language

Great Scots!

Official statistics

Con census

Overseas students

How to ruin a global brand

Nuclear decommissioning

A glowing review

Lads' mags

Nuts goes tits up

Bagehot

The pinstriped proletarian

Internship

International

Post-conflict societies

To hell and back

Illiterate voters

Making their mark

Business

Petrobras

Two heads are worse than one

General Motors’ woes

What do you recall?

Health care in America

The geek guide to insurance

Mobile phones

The rise of the cheap smartphone

German companies and China

Mittelstand and Middle Kingdom

Italy’s state-controlled companies

Letting go, slowly

Crowdsourcing “Monopoly”

The Mayfair shuffle

Schumpeter

Flower power

Briefing

European energy security

Conscious uncoupling

Reducing Europe’s dependence on Russian gas is possible—but it will take time, money and sustained political will

India’s new voters

We are connected

Rapid social change and assertive voters will improve Indian democracy

Finance & economics

Frontier markets

Wedge beyond the edge

Buttonwood

Now you see them

Banks and fraud

Hacking back

Japan’s economy

Out of the zone

Cash and crime

Less coin to purloin

Reforming the audit profession

The cost of cosiness

The euro-zone economy

Frost in spring

Free exchange

Financial indulgence

Science & technology

Climate change

In the balance

At sea in space

Planetary science

Beer and barbecues

A marriage made in heaven

Psychology

Sweet little lies

Books & arts

Stockmarkets

Fast times

New fiction

Go for gothic

Avian zoology

Fairy creatures

Cesar Chavez

The grapes of wrath

New American theatre

Mind the gaps

Contemporary art in LA

Homebase

Economic & financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

The Economist poll of forecasters, April averages

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

Markets

The Economist commodity-price index

Obituary

Khushwant Singh