Leaders
Sunlight over soot
India becomes more active in the fight against global warming
The world’s third-largest carbon emitter is curbing its dependence on coal
Burmese daze
Aung San Suu Kyi is letting her own revolution down
Myanmar’s revered leader needs to learn how to delegate
Letters
Letters
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Constrained?
America’s system of checks and balances seems to be working
But there is still plenty to worry about
The silk-silver axis
Averting a Chinese-American trade war
The world’s most important bilateral economic relationship is flourishing—and in deep trouble
Europe
Sudden movement
Aleksei Navalny brings Russia’s opposition back to life
Growing out of it
Portugal cuts its fiscal deficit while raising pensions and wages
Beyond the hexagon
France’s presidential race is a clash of worldviews
Bewildered in Bratislava
Who kidnapped the son of Slovakia’s president?
Britain
A race against time
The two-year countdown to Brexit has begun
And then there were none
As it celebrates Brexit, UKIP loses its man in the Commons
Justice in an age of austerity
Want to challenge your unfair dismissal? That’ll be £1,200
Of sandwiches and Percy Pigs
British Airways is turning into a no-frills airline
In the eye of the storm
An attack in London puts Birmingham’s Muslims in the spotlight
Zeal of the convert
Converts to Islam are likelier to radicalise than native Muslims
Middle East & Africa
Return of the third horseman
Famine menaces 20m people in Africa and Yemen
State of mines
Islamic State is losing land but leaving mines behind
Prime minister v pundits
Bibi Netanyahu takes on the media
Pants on fire in Cairo
Why Egypt’s ruler loves Donald Trump
United States
Brown suits galore
Reforming taxes will not be easier than abolishing Obamacare
Farming in the Midwest
How bad is this farm slump?
A guide to the investigations
Trump and Russia, the never-ending story
The Americas
Sun, sand and socialism
What the tourist industry reveals about Cuba
Hard rules for rotten wars
When is it OK to shoot a child soldier?
Asia
Governing in prose
Aung San Suu Kyi’s first year running Myanmar has been a letdown
A haven for the crass
An outspoken Singaporean blogger wins asylum in America
A break for the despairing
India decriminalises attempted suicide
International
Fewer, but still with us
The world has made great progress in eradicating extreme poverty
Business
Finance & economics
Canary in the coal mine
Lacklustre power demand in Asia throws a cloud over coal
Breaking up is hard to do
Banks’ equity-research operations are in decline
A small price to pay
Indonesia’s tax amnesty passes its deadline
A shore thing
An improbable global shortage: sand
Science & technology
The case for neural lace
Elon Musk enters the world of brain-computer interfaces
Moving moments
Analysing brain signals to let a patient control his arm
Laying a glove on it
A simple device designed to detect chemical weapons
Global air pollution
Airborne particles cause more than 3m early deaths a year
Bird brains and traffic accidents
Small-brained birds get killed by cars
Taking stock
Managing supplies of vaccines is a huge problem
Culture
Tradition, resurrected
A resurgence of religious faith is changing China
Nature v nurture
The controversial biology of sexual selection
An overdue biography
Why the reputation of David Jones is ripe for reappraisal
An elegant primer
Classical music, made easy
Obituary
Songs of the sea