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Prostitution: A personal choice

Trade and protectionism: No more grand bargains

China’s far west: A Chechnya in the making

Reforming Leviathan: Mandarin lessons

Mexico’s reforms: Keep it up

On assisted suicide, Gaza, Chinese journalism, business, Caliph Ibrahim, Panama’s hats, the Big Mac: Letters to the editor

Prostitution and the internet: More bang for your buck

Barack Obama’s message to business: Stop whining, I’m your friend

Presidents and growth: Timing is everything

Congressional elections: Immovable incumbents

Colorado politics: Ground war

Gun control: Bullets to the head

Streetcars and urban renewal: Rolling blunder

Regional accents: Mind that drawl, y’all

Lexington: The George H.W. Bush revival

Cuba and the outside world: Rekindling old friendships

Brazil’s presidential-election campaign: A tightly scripted telenovela

NAFTA’s junior partners: She loves me, she loves me not

Bello: The palindrome of Kirchnerismo

Thailand: Peace, order, stagnation

Malaysian politics: What’s Malay for gerrymandering?

India’s civil-service exams: The unlevel field

Japan’s economy: Feeling the pinch

Banyan: Neither truth nor justice

Ethnic unrest: Spreading the net

Alcohol consumption: The spirit level

The Gaza war: Will the ceasefire hold?

Gaza and the Arab world: A collective shrug

Iraq’s civil war: Who wants to rescue the regime?

Sexual mores in Iran: Throwing off the covers

Science in Africa: On the rise

Ethiopia and its press: The noose tightens

Turkey’s election: Tyrant or steadying hand?

Germany’s president: Preaching a new German gospel

Russia and the West: How to lose friends

War crimes in Kosovo: A country awaits

Italy’s economy: Shrinking again

Italy’s parliament: High-class errand boys

London’s costly construction: Bodies, bombs and bureaucracy

Architecture: New digs

Scotland’s TV debate: Bravo, Darling

London’s mayor: The blond bombshell

Lady Warsi: Unilateral action

Soldiers and human rights: Lawyers to right of them, lawyers to left of them

The Welsh language: Dragonian measures

The British diaspora: And don’t come back

Civil-service reform: Modernising the mandarins

Women in politics: Treating the fair sex fairly

Ebola: Fear and loathing

Mergers and acquisitions: Coming unstuck

Bernie Ecclestone: Irony alert

Travel websites: David vs two Goliaths

Unilever: In search of the good business

Schumpeter: Leading light

World trade: Bailing out from Bali

Buttonwood: Practice makes imperfect

Banco Espírito Santo: Sharing the pain

European banking tests: Exam nerves

Hong Kong’s finances: Going with the flow

Ghana and the IMF: Time for thrift

Free exchange: Tilted marine

HIV and MS: Antithesis, synthesis?

Cometary science: Rosetta's stone

Arctic science: A glide-path to knowledge

Science in Japan: Stress test

Revolution and war in Ukraine: I witness

Artificial intelligence: Clever cogs

America’s bureaucracy: Sins of commissions

South Korea’s soft power: Soap, sparkle and pop

New American theatre: A 21st-century “Seagull”

Inside al-Qaeda: There and back again

Obituary: Peter Hall

Obituary: Output, prices and jobs

Obituary: Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

Obituary: The Economist commodity-price index

Obituary: The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages

Obituary: Markets

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages

Markets