People
Lessons from 35,000 feet
Tony Blair’s rather odd memoirs contain important truths for his successorsSep 2nd 2010
Zuma's two bad calls
Seeking to buy off allies and cracking down on dissent: bad signs in South AfricaSep 2nd 2010
Self-destruction
Japan’s ruling party should cast its most famous member, Ichiro Ozawa, into the wildernessSep 2nd 2010
The charge of the Brat Pack
A moderate force takes shape inside the Republican PartySep 2nd 2010
With friends like these
President Jacob Zuma is badly bruised by weeks of crippling strikesSep 2nd 2010
A tyrant nobody knows
A biography of Myanmar's dictatorSep 2nd 2010
Articles from previous editions
Monkey business?
Allegations of scientific misconduct at Harvard have academics up in armsAug 26th 2010
Trial by barbecue
The struggles of Michael IgnatieffAug 26th 2010
Ichiro Ozawa strikes back
The return of a destructive force in Japanese politicsAug 26th 2010
The right stuff
Indiana's governor is a likeable wonk. Can he save the Republicans from themselves and provide a pragmatic alternative to Barack Obama?Aug 19th 2010
The landscape of a blighted planet
A collection of pleasingly quirky essaysAug 19th 2010
Will he, won't he?
Speculation has been growing as President Goodluck Jonathan, who was appointed to his post earlier this year, ponders whether to run for electionAug 19th 2010
The never-ending swansong
A verdict, sort of, for Rod BlagojevichAug 19th 2010
Obituaries
Mont Liggins
Investigator of the mysteries of birth and breathSep 2nd 2010
Bill Millin
Bill Millin, piper at the D-Day landings, died on August 17th, aged 88Aug 26th 2010
Robert Boyle
Alfred Hitchcock's art directorAug 19th 2010
Tony Judt
Zionist, Francophile, socialist and Euro-federalistAug 12th 2010
Alex Higgins
He helped turn snooker into a global phenomenon, but celebrity didn't suit himAug 5th 2010
Steve Schneider
He was utterly candid about the uncertainties of climate science and the role of subjective judgmentJul 29th 2010
Mau Piailug
A master of the ancient Polynesian art of sailing by the stars and the look of the seaJul 22nd 2010
Beryl Bainbridge
Iron discipline and Camel Lights helped produce 18 novels, almost all of them acclaimedJul 15th 2010
José Saramago
An outspoken communist, atheist and winner of the Nobel prize in literatureJul 8th 2010
Robert Byrd
He preserved the glory of the Senate in all its glory, prodigality and arcane complexityJun 30th 2010
Egon Ronay
He told the British what good food was, and where they could find itJun 24th 2010
The unacknowledged giant
Few journalists have had as great an influence—or been proved right so often—as the man who, for 23 years, was the deputy editor of The EconomistJun 17th 2010
Louise Bourgeois
A “volcanic subconscious” fed her extraordinary shapesJun 10th 2010
Martin Gardner 
A man of letters and numbers, and a renowned populariser of difficult subjectsJun 3rd 2010
Wynne Godley
A maverick British economist, best known for his criticisms of Conservative economic policiesMay 27th 2010
Lena Horne
A black actor and singer who broke barriers but regretted her symbolic statusMay 20th 2010
Avigdor Arikha
Simplicity, modesty and limitation were the keys to his drawing from lifeMay 13th 2010
Fred Halliday
An interpreter of the Middle East, with cosmopolitan rather than internationalist viewsMay 6th 2010
Alan Sillitoe
He gave voices and identities to the street-crowds of post-war BritainApr 29th 2010
Wilma Mankiller
The first woman chief of the Cherokee NationApr 22nd 2010
Lech Kaczynski
He exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of the political milieu from which he cameApr 15th 2010
Eugene Terre'Blanche
A Boer demagogue, whose murder has sparked fear of renewed racial violence in South Africa Apr 8th 2010
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