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A new look for mobile
Our website has been updated to make it easier to read, more inviting to browse and faster to load on smartphones and other mobile devices with small screens. Point your phone’s browser at Economist.com to give it a try

Debate: Big banks
Banking is meant to be a service that enables all others, yet it has become the bane of some economies. Whether or not to break up the big banks is perhaps the most salient question that remains after the financial crisis. Join our debate

The matter with Kansas
Thanks to Kansas’s Second Amendment Protection Act, it is now a crime for a federal officer to enforce federal gun-control laws there. This move, known as nullification, has not gone down well with America’s attorney-general, Eric Holder

New fault lines and old
Northern Ireland is beginning to see American-style culture wars, in which some Protestants and Catholics bury their theological differences in a common conservative cause: the fight against the legalisation of same-sex marriage

Lust, jealousy, revenge
Sir Nicholas Hytner’s provocative production of “Othello” at the National Theatre in London is less about race than about soldiers’ psyches.

Virtual fields
Farming has always been rooted in careful analysis of data—from deducing the best conditions to achieve bumper yields to keeping track of the bounty reaped from arable land. A new crop of apps and websites attempts to make this much easier

Debate: Self-driving cars
Will self-driving cars be the next improbable-sounding technology to become widely used? Or will they be like the nuclearpowered vehicle that Ford once worked on—technically feasible but hopelessly impractical? Join our debate

Intelligent Life on Android
Our culture and lifestyle magazine is now available on Android tablet for the first time, as well as on the iPad and iPhone. The new issue features Ricken Patel, the founder of Avaaz. Download it free from Google Play or the App Store

The Deutsche question-mark
Brendan Simms, the author of a new book on the history of Europe, talks to us about the way German power is central to the continent’s identity. He suggests that this does not have to be a troubling notion, even if it has been in the past

Louxor-on-Seine
The Louxor, an art-deco cinema near the Barbès–Rochechouart metro station in Paris, has recently been restored to its former glory.

LONDON hosts a marathon, the trial of Alexei Navalny begins, Paraguay holds elections and an elephant bird egg goes to auction