Editing humanity: The prospect of genetic enhancement
The world this week
Leaders
Genetic engineering
Editing humanity
A new technique for manipulating genes holds great promise—but rules are needed to govern its use
NGOs in China
Pummelling the little platoons
The Communist Party wants to squeeze civil society. That would be unwise as well as unjust
Britain’s Labour Party
The resistible rise of Jeremy Corbyn
A victory for the hard-left candidate would be bad for Labour—but also for the Tories
Higher education in America
Better ways to pay for college
Hillary Clinton and, especially, Marco Rubio have promising ideas for how to finance a university degree
The Ashley Madison hack
An affair to remember
The theft of data from a website that facilitates infidelity is a wake-up call
Letters
On low-cost private schools, Nigel Piercy, Rosalind Franklin, hipsters, driverless cars
Letters
Briefing
Genome editing
The age of the red pen
It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans
Gene drives
The most selfish genes
Giving bits of DNA the power to edit themselves is an intriguing, and worrying, possibility
Europe
Russia’s economy
The path to penury
Azerbaijan
Back in the USSR
Angela Merkel’s power
Angela regina
Greek debt
What the classics know
Bullfighting
Why Spanish bulls are now deadlier
Britain
Britain’s new underclass
Hiding in plain sight
The Labour Party
Seeing red
Milk prices
Cowed
Immigration worries
Tunnel vision
Social work and policing
A new beat
Financing airports
Runway robbery
Bagehot
Getting to Cambridge
Middle East & Africa
Arab armies
Full of sound and fury
Hizbullah’s learning curve
Deadly experience
Islamic State and antiquities
Nothing is sacred
Palestinian hunger strikes
To feed or to free
South African property
Trendy townships
Ali Bongo shares his inheritance
Giving back in Gabon
United States
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina
Some people got away alright
Iowa’s state fair
Of chops and choppers
Pet waste
A crap-shoot
Companies and employment
Who’s the boss?
Lexington
The Sandernista revolution
The Americas
Sex and society in Latin America
Wonder women and macho men
The costs of sexism
Girl power
Bello
The migrant nation
Asia
Politics in Myanmar
Pistols and purges
Unease in Thailand
Game of thrones
Sri Lanka's parliamentary election
Mahinda misfires
India’s lyrical politicians
Honeybees and souls
Banyan
Asia’s new family values
China
International
Business
The motor trade
Death of a car salesman
China’s motor trade
Driven to the brink
European mobile telecoms
Together we stand
Odebrecht
Principles and values
Schumpeter
When workers are owners
Finance & economics
The sell-off in commodities
Goodbye to all that
American oil
Nafta naphtha
Bitcoin
Forking hell
Tax blacklists
EU hypocrites!
Amish banking
Nice gig
Free exchange
Graduate stock
Schools brief
Of what is the universe really made?
To the dark side
Science & technology
El Niño
Bringing up baby
3D printing
What goes around, comes around
Climatology
Childbirth
Natural aerobatics
Glider spiders
Culture
Childhood autism
Horrible history
Finance
The money trap
Asia’s history
Brilliant threads
Gore Vidal
Life out loud
American television
Down and dirty in city hall
Obituary
Obituary: Padre Pietro Lavini