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
Charlemagne
Part of the furniture
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
Texas floods
Pray for a proper policy
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
Lexington
Mr Manchin stays in Washington
The Americas
Mexico’s mid-term elections
Bucking the system
Graft in Guatemala
Ten-pin bowling
Colombia’s peace process
Bullet proof
Bello
Suffer the children
Asia
South China Sea
Try not to blink
Japan and the AIIB
To join or not to join
Wartime history
Conflict zones
Afghanistan
Season of bloodshed
China
International
Urban planning
Rus in urbe redux
Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Made to measure
Monitor
Passé words
Monitor
No way for fish
Monitor
A charged view
Difference engine
Your phone on steroids
Airline interiors
Flying into the future
Air travel
Watching the world go by
A guide to alternative smartphones
Ready to runcible
Energy storage
Charge of the lithium brigade
Brain scan
Britain’s spaceman
Business
Football
Polishing up a tarnished trophy
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
Schumpeter
A palette of plans
Finance & economics
China’s stockmarket bubble
A goring concern
Greece and its creditors
When the talking has to stop
Buttonwood
The economics of bluffing
Rating agencies
Undue credit
Reinsurance
Compacts of god
The yuan
Feeling valued
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