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Education and class
As the importance of intellectual capital grows, privilege has become increasingly heritable
Nigeria and Boko Haram
Only if the government tackles misrule and endemic corruption will the jihadist group be beaten
Private equity in Africa
Africa needs a lot of capital. Private equity offers lessons on how to get it there
Freedom of speech
Speech should be freer than it is in many Western countries
The sea
Big data allow fish to be protected as never before. Governments should take advantage of this
On freelance workers, Canada, guns, India, GM foods, office cubicles, Wagner
America’s elite
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
Early education matters, but it is not everything
The state-of-the-union address
The Republican response
Race and the Supreme Court
Conditions behind bars
Mens rea
Catching spies
Disability insurance
Lexington
Justice in Argentina
Venezuela
United States-Canada relations
Bello
Pakistan after the Peshawar school massacre
India and America
Indonesian politics
Japan and jihad
The South China Sea
Urbanisation
Skiing
Banyan
Iranian foreign policy
Islamists in Jordan
Instability in Yemen
Congo and Rwanda
The fight against Boko Haram
Italy’s reforms
German politics
French politics
War in Ukraine
Switzerland’s currency
Spain and Catalonia
Charlemagne
Northern Ireland’s economy
Anti-Semitism
Storm in a D-cup
The Cancer Drugs Fund
Bird-watching
Immigrants
Family life
North Sea oil and gas
Bagehot
The flogging of a Saudi blogger
Foreign investment in Africa
Foreign firms in China
America’s oil industry
Italian football
Telecoms in Myanmar
Publishing
Schumpeter
Development
Buttonwood
Quantitative easing in the euro zone
Financial technology
Ukraine and the IMF
Foreign exchange
Global inequality
The Big Mac index
Standard & Poor’s
Free exchange
Combating illegal fishing
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
A spacecraft’s fate
Archaeology
Democracy and America’s civil war
China and Pakistan
Civil-war fiction
Families and totalitarianism
African refugees
American ceramics
Obituary: Darrell Winfield