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Sunday 08/October/2017 15:51 PM

Spain’s crisis is Europe’s opportunity

To revive the ailing European project, the ugly conflict between Catalonia’s regional government and the Spanish state may be just what the doctor...

Sunday 08/October/2017 15:25 PM

Three ways ahead for the eurozone

After a tumultuous year, politics seem to be stabilizing across Europe. Though the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) gained almost 13 per cent of...

Sunday 08/October/2017 14:52 PM

Life-and-death inequality

Just as some of us live longer than others, countries have different average life expectancies. At the bottom of the scale is Swaziland, the only country in...

Saturday 07/October/2017 15:31 PM

How hate speech can harm your brain

In a flurry of confident pronouncements within an hour of the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, conservative commentators and activists linked...

Saturday 07/October/2017 15:06 PM

The Affordable Care Act’s Second Act

Congressional Republicans have twice failed to marshal enough votes to realise their seven-year promise to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care...

Saturday 07/October/2017 14:43 PM

Disrupting climate change

After a season of record-breaking hurricanes in the United States and floods across Asia, it would be easy to despair about the accelerating pace of climate...