Leaders
Spain’s general election
¡Feliz Navidad, España!
A new liberal party offers an antidote to populist euro blues
Climate change
Hopelessness and determination
The Paris agreement will not stabilise the climate; but the efforts it makes possible could still achieve a lot
Letters
On climate change, Japan, Augustine, sugar, music, Bernie Sanders
Letters to the editor
Essay
Animal minds
Animals think, therefore…
Europe
Spain’s elections
Clean hands
German immigration
All down the line
European borders
A real border guard at last
French politics
Outflanking Marine
Charlemagne
Down but not out
Britain
Industrial woes
The makers stumble
Airports
Stuck in a holding pattern
The Thatcher auction
The final sell-off
Organised crime
Bad blood
The fat of the land
Mapping obesity
Middle East & Africa
South Africa’s democracy
The hollow state
Skiing in Iran
Off piste in the Islamic Republic
Saudi Arabia
One (very) small step for a woman
United States
Capital punishment in America
Who killed the death penalty?
Muslim refugees
Doing just fine
The polls and Donald Trump’s outbursts
Enough said
Lexington
Miss Manners
The Americas
Legalising pot in Canada
Justin Trudeau and the cannabis factory
West Indian cricket
Gone with the Windies
Asia
Pakistan confronts extremism
Job half-done
North Korea’s rock chicks
Songs of praise
Thailand’s royal pooch
Who are you calling a bitch?
Mongolia and mining
Back in the saddle?
China
International
Christmas Specials
The Gujarati way
Going global
Caterpillar fungus
The emperor’s mighty brother
Miniature painting
Bosom buddies
Travel in Russia
The gauge of history
Preserving manuscripts
Faith’s archivists
An 18th-century outrage
Lèse humanité
The future of the past
Out with the old
Agony aunts through the ages
Whatever should I do?
Sport and diplomacy
Cuban baseball crisis
Murder and memory
That dear old oak in Georgia
The Ottoman caliphate
Straddling two worlds
American cryptology
The Black Chamber
The Chinese at play
Park life
Business
Chinese business and the state
Another turn of the screw
Roll-ups
Serial thrillers
India’s low-cost carriers
Ascending above the turbulence
Schumpeter
Here comes SuperBoss
Briefing
Briefing: Disney
The force is strong in this firm
Disney is making a fortune and safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece
Finance & economics
High-yield bonds
Canary or canard?
Ukraine’s prospects
Still on the edge
Festive splurges
Bank run
Buttonwood
Naughty, not nice
Free exchange
Wookienomics
Science & technology
Human exoskeletons
Full metal jacket
The perils of public office
A merry life but a short one
Materials science
No tangled web
Some cosmic Christmas baubles
Extra-solar planets
Culture
Musical diplomacy
Patriotism on Broadway
Philosophy in practice
The lives of moral saints
The Western mind
Lost soul
Obituary
Obituary: Brajraj Mahapatra