Domestic policy
Stockmarkets: Don’t worry, be happy
Investors think equities are the best bet in times of expansive monetary policy0
Shinzo Abe has a vision of a prosperous and patriotic Japan. The economics looks better than the nationalism460
Why eating more insects might be good for the planet and good for you63
The IMF in Britain: Toothless truth tellers
The chancellor is likely to ignore the IMF’s advice4
Gun violence and gun control: Dear life
The dramatic decline in gun violence over the past two decades does not make new control laws seem unnecessary334
Immigration reform: Welfare and amnesty
Scholars from the conservative Heritage Foundation abuse standard economic methods and the memory of Milton Friedman235
Gun control and nullification: The matter with Kansas
The state seems to think it can do whatever it likes about guns215
Plan B emergency contraception: Losing the battle...
Is Barack Obama throwing the battle over Plan B in order to help win the war over Obamacare's contraceptive mandate?54
American bond markets: Term report
Regulators fret about the risk of a sudden rise in long-term bond yields3
The Federal Reserve speaks: Fearful symmetry
A largely ho-hum statement jolts markets23
When affirmative action ends: Colour lines
If the Supreme Court draws a line in the sand against the consideration of race in university admissions next month, it will likely burnish, not erase, the colour lines that still divide the American landscape80
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Monetary policy: Can the Fed offset contractionary fiscal policy?
It can, and it has15
Affirmative action in Brazil: Slavery's legacy
Brazil is turning to affirmative-action programmes, just as the United States considers abandoning them214
The euro zone crisis: Bellwether signals
A high-powered debate but no agreed solutions17
Affirmative action: Unequal protection
In the first of three pieces on race-based preferences around the world, we look at America’s pending Supreme Court decisions on diversity at universities222
The Cypriot economy: Through a glass, darkly
The outlook is even grimmer than it was at the time of the bail-out11
Though not loudly enough to make much difference20
Gun control: Over before it began
The flawed and failed gun-control bill represented something greater to both sides114
Monetary policy: How does inflation matter?
Stable prices are either a good thing or a bad thing. Or an irrelevant thing.20
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The Boston bombings: Immigration and terror
Rationally or not, terrorism involving foreigners in America has always been linked to immigration politics236
The Boston bombings: A week of violence, and responses to violence
America's reactions to the Boston and Newtown atrocities1
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