Israel’s prime minister sounds upbeat, even if no one else does(18)
A once-revered buy-out firm is going under. Who’s next?(1)
Japan’s ruling party should cast its most famous member, Ichiro Ozawa, into the wilderness(4)
Scapegoated abroad and the victims of prejudice at home, they are the problem no politician wants to solve(29)
That’s the way the cookie crumbles
One reason dieting does not work(34)
Charlemagne blogs anew, starting from his namesake's throne at Aachen.
Asia view flips through a graphic novel about the Bali bombings.
Buttonwood on whether inequality makes people ill.
Johnson wants to know why the words for family relations are so varied.
Free exchange notices that China is backtracking on reform.
Democracy in America examines an excuse for being unfrightened by Glenn Beck.
Eastern approaches shares a selective list of eastern Europe's English-language press.
Gulliver on business travel in utterly safe Toronto.
Graham “Mont” Liggins, investigator of the mysteries of birth and breath, died on August 24th, aged 84

Quantum cryptography is unbreakable in theory. But like any security system, in practice it is only as safe as its weakest link

Mao’s interpreter talks to us about the evolution of individual ambition and why Mao was the best listener he ever met

Is it time to revive the library?
Rethinking what they look like, what they offer and how they store their wares
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