The right way to do drugs: Legalising cannabis safely
The world this week
Leaders
Regulating cannabis
The right way to do drugs
The argument for the legalisation of cannabis has been won. Now for the difficult bit
European banks
Borrowed time
It has been a traumatic week for European banks. Their problems run deepest in Italy
Travel in Africa
Let Africans fly
Air travel in Africa is needlessly hard and costly. Open skies would make it cheaper
Letters
Arab investment, electricity, restrooms, batteries, citizenship, gas, dedicated subscriber, punk, collaboration
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Legalising cannabis
Reeferegulatory challenge
A growing number of countries are deciding to ditch prohibition. What comes next?
Essay
The Mekong
Requiem for a river
Europe
Corruption in Ukraine
Dear friends
Spanish politics
Back to the bullring
Smoking in France
Between a puff and a Kalashnikov
Germany and refugees
Is the welcome culture legal?
Russians in London
Government in exile
Charlemagne
Special privileges
Britain
Britain’s tax code
Spaghetti junction
The Brexit debate
The budget that didn’t bark
Intelligence oversight
Snoopers scolded
The energy business
Switched off
Problem-solving courts
Smart justice
Sugar taxes
Do as I say, not as I chew
Refugees
Marginal benefits
Bagehot
Britain’s new ambassadors
Middle East & Africa
Aviation in Africa
Departure delayed
Saving Africa’s rhinos
Pooches v poachers
The veil in west Africa
Banning the burqa
Syria’s war
Assad on the offensive
The Mosul dam
A watery time-bomb
United States
New Hampshire and beyond
Trumped and Berned
Bernie Sanders’ economic policy
A vote for what?
Trump’s German roots
Kallstadt’s king
The campaigns
Heard on the trail
Libertarians
Live free, or try
Climate change
Supreme emissions
The defence budget
Mr Carter places his bets
Lobsters
Shell shock
Lexington
Rush-ing around
The Americas
Economic data in Argentina
An Augean stable
Bello
A time to heal
How the White House race looks from Cuba
The Havana primaries
Latin American currencies
Border bazaar
Asia
China, North Korea and America
Between Punxsutawney and Pyongyang
Tasmania charts a new course
Water into wine
Tasmania’s forests
Saving the swift parrot
China
Hong Kong-mainland relations
Over troubled water
The fire-monkey stirs
Street violence and politics
Corruption
Portrait of a purge
International
Business
Railways in America
Doing the locomotion
France’s almighty bosses
In praise of the splits
Clunky Dorsey
Corporate governance in Japan
Sharp elbows
Foxconn
Pointed questions
Indian business
Crossing the desert
Turkish wine producers
Sour grapes
Drone-racing
Whizz kids
Schumpeter
Diversity fatigue
Finance & economics
Falling bank shares
A tempest of fear
Buttonwood
Slaves of the markets
Deutsche Bank’s unappetising cocos
Discomforting brew
Lesbians’ wage premium
Girl power
Sri Lanka’s economy
Taxing times
Free exchange
Optimising romance
Science & technology
Merger and acquisition
Gravitational waves have been detected for the first time
Neanderthals and human disease
A Parthian shot
Bacterial vision
Go towards the light
Livers, bacteria and alcohol
Bugs in the system
Air quality
Something in the air tonight
Culture
Infectious diseases
Passing through
Marcel Proust as graphic novel
A second bite of the madeleine
The art of the confidence game
Fool me once
Johnson
Double-edged words
Life in the ocean
50 shades of grey whales
The Holocaust in France
Dear father
Obituary
Obituary: Marvin Minsky