Apr 26th 2014

A billion shades of grey

The world this week

Leaders

Global ageing

A billion shades of grey

An ageing economy will be a slower and more unequal one—unless policy starts changing now

Reform in Germany

Going backwards

Angela Merkel preaches pro-growth reforms to her neighbours but implements anti-growth ones at home

Berkshire Hathaway

Life after Warren

For all his success in building a great corporation, Warren Buffett should now contemplate dismantling it

Capital punishment in America

Dismantling the machinery of death

How America can—and will—abolish the death penalty

The sharing economy

Remove the roadblocks

Too many obstacles are being placed in the path of people renting things to each other

Briefing

Demography, growth and inequality

Age invaders

A generation of old people is about to change the global economy. They will not all do so in the same way

Berkshire Hathaway

Playing out the last hand

Warren Buffett’s 50 years running Berkshire Hathaway have been one of business’s most impressive winning streaks. How will it end?

United States

Capital punishment

The slow death of the death penalty

Cameron Todd Willingham

Irrevocable

Elizabeth Warren

Mass. appeal

House prices

Buy now or later?

Personalised car stickers

Family portraits on wheels

The Cliven Bundy stand-off

Cowboys v Feds

Lexington

Because men are not angels

The Americas

Energy and the Amazon

Drilling in the wilderness

Bello

Venezuela’s progressive conscience

Mexico’s netizens

Bashtagging the president

Water in Brazil

Nor any drop to drink

Asia

Japan and its neighbours

Springtime in Tokyo?

South Korea’s stricken ferry

Lost at sea

Thai politics

No end in sight

Journalism in Pakistan

The silencing of the liberals

China

Labour unrest

Danger zone

Middle-class flight

Yearning to breathe free

Migrants in Australia

The promised land

Banyan

The red and the green

Middle East & Africa

South Sudan

A new depth of horror

Eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons

Getting there

Transport in South Africa

Road rage

The Palestinians

Glimpses of unity

Egypt’s election

The other man

Yemen, America and al-Qaeda

Droning on

Saudi Arabia

Virulent

Europe

Germany’s government

Easy politics, bad policies

Eastern Ukraine

Descent into darkness

Transdniestria

Beyond the river

Politics in Ireland

Enda the road

Organised crime in Italy

From toe to top

Turkey’s presidency

Is Gul going or coming?

Charlemagne

The dragon in the room

Britain

Apprenticeships

Keeping up with the Schmidts

Muslims and education

Religious studies

Politicians and religion

Doing God

Logistics and shopping

Box clever

Political advertising

Posters aren’t working

Student housing

Up and up

Rural broadband

Going underground

Bagehot

The persecution of Tony Blair

International

Coding in schools

A is for algorithm

Muslims and fashion

Hijab couture

Business

The sharing economy

Boom and backlash

Airbnb versus hotels

Room for all, for now

Succession planning

Chucking out the chosen one

Mobile telecoms in Pakistan

At last, 3G

Television in America

The bandit of broadcast

Pharmaceuticals

Time for a simpler look

Schumpeter

The ascent of brand man

Correction: Coal

Finance & economics

MiFID 2

A bigger bang

Buttonwood

Sound the retreat

Banks and commodity trading

Sell signals

Arrears and foreclosures

Staving off the repo man

Financing energy efficiency

Money for nothing

Free exchange

The late edition

Collecting tax in Africa

Above the table

Science & technology

Mating strategies

Robocopulation

Nuclear power

All at sea

Manganese poisoning

Subtle effects

Asteroid impacts on Earth

Skyfalls

Books & arts

Derek Walcott

Beach bard

Knole and its history

The story of the Sackvilles

American fiction

Looking for a place called hope

France between the wars

Turning dark

The politics of foreign aid

Poor and benighted

Jazz at Lincoln Center

Riff on the world

Economic & financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Markets

Global investment in clean energy

Obituary

Gabriel García Márquez

The magician in his labyrinth

Letters

Letters

On the World Bank, college, Germany, Ukraine, offices, prices