The weaker sex: No jobs, no family, no prospects

The world this week

Leaders

Social change

The weaker sex

Blue-collar men in rich countries are in trouble. They must learn to adapt

Share prices in China

Flying too high

The long-term consequences of China’s coming stockmarket correction are the ones to fear

Turkey’s election

Why Turks should vote Kurd

It is the best way of stopping their country’s drift towards autocracy

Corruption in football

At last, a challenge to the impunity of FIFA

The arrest of officials should be the first stage in a thorough cleansing of a discredited organisation

Urban policy

How to shrink a city

Many cities are losing inhabitants. Better to manage decline than try to stop it

Letters

On land, Russia, gay marriage, bribery, markets, technology, Myanmar, the Beatles

Letters

Briefing

Turkey’s election

A big moment for Erdogan—and Turkey

Foreign policy is a hubristic disaster and the economy is on the slide, but that won’t stop the ruling AK party founded by Recep Tayyip Erdogan from winning

Essay

Manhood

Men adrift

Europe

Russia and the West

Alternative reality

Poland’s new president

Youthful conservatism

The French right

Republicans in name aussi

Spain’s regional elections

Scattered support

Britain

The productivity puzzle

Under the bonnet

The Queen’s Speech

Eyes to the right

European immigrants

What will become of them?

Trade unions

Back to the future

Child care

Holding the baby

Investing in forests

Where money grows on trees

Middle East & Africa

Ethiopia’s economy

Neither a sprint nor a marathon

South Africa’s economy

Dark days ahead

Oil in Nigeria

Problems at the pump

The state of the caliphate

The fortunes of war

Israeli politics

Cross channels

Oman’s foreign policy

A country apart

United States

California’s drought

All the leaves are brown

Cities versus suburbs and states

Texan tug-of-war

Capital punishment

Killing it

Preventing juvenile crime

The witching hour

Tourism in New Jersey

A Shore thing

The Americas

Mexico’s mid-term elections

Bucking the system

Graft in Guatemala

Ten-pin bowling

Colombia’s peace process

Bullet proof

Asia

South China Sea

Try not to blink

Japan and the AIIB

To join or not to join

Wartime history

Conflict zones

China

Hong Kong politics

Determined

Regional development

Big plan, a little fuzzy

International

Urban planning

Rus in urbe redux

Technology Quarterly

Monitor

Passé words

Difference engine

Your phone on steroids

Airline interiors

Flying into the future

A guide to alternative smartphones

Ready to runcible

Business

Cable deals in America

Malone wolf

Consumer electronics in China

From followers to leaders

North Sea oil

Offshore fog

The Washington Post

Exploring the Amazon

Health care

Bedside manners

Finance & economics

China’s stockmarket bubble

A goring concern

Greece and its creditors

When the talking has to stop

Rating agencies

Undue credit

Reinsurance

Compacts of god

Danish mortgages

Homeowning Hamlets

Free exchange

A weighting game

Science & technology

Culture

The multiple symbolisms of Palmyra

Stones that speak

American fiction

Size matters

New Algerian fiction

Stranger and stranger

Saul Bellow

Early days yet

Cannes film festival

Beachcombing

Obituary

Obituary: John Nash

Lost and found