Jan 24th 2015

America’s new aristocracy

The world this week

Leaders

Education and class

America’s new aristocracy

As the importance of intellectual capital grows, privilege has become increasingly heritable

Nigeria and Boko Haram

The black flag in Africa

Only if the government tackles misrule and endemic corruption will the jihadist group be beaten

Private equity in Africa

Unblocking the pipes

Africa needs a lot of capital. Private equity offers lessons on how to get it there

Freedom of speech

First—and last—do no harm

Speech should be freer than it is in many Western countries

The sea

How to catch the overfishermen

Big data allow fish to be protected as never before. Governments should take advantage of this

Letters

On freelance workers, Canada, guns, India, GM foods, office cubicles, Wagner

Letters

Briefing

America’s elite

An hereditary meritocracy

The children of the rich and powerful are increasingly well suited to earning wealth and power themselves. That’s a problem

The world’s nurseries

Getting ‘em young

Early education matters, but it is not everything

United States

The state-of-the-union address

“Middle-class economics”

The Republican response

When Joni poked Barry

Race and the Supreme Court

Disparate dilemma

Conditions behind bars

Screening visitors

Mens rea

What were you thinking?

Catching spies

James Bond’s body language

Disability insurance

Not working

Lexington

Hugging the Saudi floggers

The Americas

Justice in Argentina

The president and the prosecutor

Venezuela

Empty shelves and rhetoric

United States-Canada relations

My way or the highway

Bello

The Mexican morass

Asia

Pakistan after the Peshawar school massacre

The man with a plan

India and America

Come, meet Mum

Indonesian politics

Jokowi’s jinks

Japan and jihad

Sand storm

The South China Sea

Oil on troubled waters

China

Urbanisation

The great sprawl of China

Skiing

To the piste!

Banyan

Dodging peril

Middle East & Africa

Iranian foreign policy

The long arm

Islamists in Jordan

The king and Islam

Instability in Yemen

Held hostage

Congo and Rwanda

Ever again

The fight against Boko Haram

Africa’s Islamic State

Europe

Italy’s reforms

Renzi’s struggle in the swamp

German politics

Gone boy on the right

French politics

After Janvier

War in Ukraine

Airport saga

Switzerland’s currency

Shaken, not stirred

Spain and Catalonia

Mas observation

Charlemagne

Berlin v Frankfurt

Britain

Northern Ireland’s economy

A new kind of trouble

Anti-Semitism

Be not afraid

Storm in a D-cup

Thanks for the mammaries

The Cancer Drugs Fund

Benign or malignant?

Bird-watching

All aflutter

Immigrants

Poles apart

Family life

Legitimate

North Sea oil and gas

Crude realities

Bagehot

Multicultural and aggrieved

International

Freedom of speech

The sound of silence

The flogging of a Saudi blogger

Victim of hypocrites

Business

Foreign investment in Africa

A sub-Saharan scramble

Foreign firms in China

You’re still welcome

America’s oil industry

The tough get going

Italian football

More than just trophy assets

Telecoms in Myanmar

Mobile mania

Publishing

Spotify for books

Schumpeter

Cheap and cheerful

Finance & economics

Development

The economics of optimism

Buttonwood

Accentuate the negative

Quantitative easing in the euro zone

Better late than never

Financial technology

Connect 450

Ukraine and the IMF

Bigger and better

Foreign exchange

Swiss miss

Global inequality

The wrong yardstick

The Big Mac index

Oily and easy

Standard & Poor’s

Berated

Free exchange

Broke but never bust

Science & technology

Combating illegal fishing

Dragnet

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Rosetta’s report

A spacecraft’s fate

The Beagle had landed

Archaeology

Scroll up, scroll up

Books & arts

Democracy and America’s civil war

The whole family of man

China and Pakistan

Geopolitical friends

Civil-war fiction

Heroic words

Families and totalitarianism

Behind closed doors

African refugees

Finding his feet

American ceramics

Feat of clay

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Football wealth

Markets

Obituary

Obituary: Darrell Winfield