People
China's toxic toymaker
The death of Zhang Shuhong could herald the demise of China's many anonymous subcontractorsAug 16th 2007
Mitt and the monkey
The Iowa straw poll says more about the state of the Republican Party than about the race for the nomination Aug 16th 2007
Presidential troubles, again
This time round, Abdullah Gul will surely become Turkey's president—to the annoyance of the army and the secular establishmentAug 16th 2007
Goodbye to The Architect
Karl Rove, George Bush's chief political adviser and close friend, is leaving his job at the end of the month Aug 16th 2007
The general in his labyrinth
General Pervez Musharraf has several options to remain in power, and none looks very promisingAug 16th 2007
The great survivor
Jacob Zuma, presidential hopefulAug 16th 2007
The dazzler that dimmed
Two new biographies appraise George Bush's second secretary of stateAug 16th 2007
Articles from previous editions
To hell and back
Howard Lutnick rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald against the odds. But he will struggle to reconquer his industryAug 9th 2007
The emergency ward
Pervez Musharraf may have had enough of pretending to be a democrat at heartAug 9th 2007
Gothic's moral superiority
A marvellous biography of the architect who built glorious cathedrals—and filled Britain with buildings that vaguely resembled medieval monasteriesAug 9th 2007
The nimble sumo
Jean-Pierre Garnier of GlaxoSmithKline defends the pharmaceutical industry as he overhauls his own drugs firmAug 2nd 2007
Doublespeak
Gordon Brown told the truth about Britain's relationship with America—both of themAug 2nd 2007
Man and superman
Meet the real Hugo Chávez, military caudillo and political televangelistAug 2nd 2007
Conceptual change
Raúl Castro sets out his stall while Fidel hovers in the backgroundAug 2nd 2007
Of seals and Newts
Sharp advice for candidates from a familiar face Aug 2nd 2007
Gotcha!
America is coming to terms with Rupert Murdoch's purchase of one of its great journalistic institutionsAug 2nd 2007
Obituaries
Cardinal Lustiger
He was a Jew by birth, instinct, emotion and devotion; he was a Catholic by conversion and convictionAug 16th 2007
Tommy Makem
He brought his beloved island's music to America, where he stirred nationalist spirits while avoiding politicsAug 9th 2007
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman, film and theatre director, died on July 30th, aged 89 Aug 2nd 2007
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, died on July 22nd, aged 92Jul 26th 2007
Lady Bird Johnson
In the White House, as her husband battled with demons of drink, heart disease, depression and the war, she became indispensable to himJul 19th 2007
George Melly
Britain's most outrageous jazz singer was also a tranquil fishermanJul 12th 2007
Liz Claiborne
She grasped exactly what American women needed as the aproned housewife of the 1950s morphed into the professional of the 1970sJul 5th 2007
Imre Friedmann
Once a persecuted refugee, he discovered meek life persisting in the most barren of habitatsJun 28th 2007
Kurt Waldheim
A diplomat with a selective memoryJun 21st 2007
Jim Clark
The Alabama brute was an indispensable enemy to the civil-rights movementJun 14th 2007
Indar Jit Rikhye
With Mahatma Gandhi's blessing, he joined the army. With the United Nations', he went to the Middle EastJun 7th 2007
Stanley Miller
In its day, his search for the vital spirit overshadowed the work of Watson and CrickMay 31st 2007
Malietoa Tanumafili II
He presided over Samoa peacefully, for more than 40 yearsMay 24th 2007
Alfred Chandler
The original chronicler of corporations saw managers as heroesMay 17th 2007
Mstislav Rostropovich
He used his musical freedom to the utmost, inside the Soviet Union and in exileMay 10th 2007
David Halberstam
He taught a generation of American reporters to ask the hard questionsMay 3rd 2007
Boris Yeltsin
Perhaps almost too Russian, he never succumbed to Homo sovieticusApr 26th 2007
Kurt Vonnegut
He survived Dresden's firestorm, and there found his purposeApr 19th 2007
María Julia Hernández
She brought human-rights abuses in El Salvador to the world's attention Apr 12th 2007
Paul Lauterbur
A wild and serendipitous life in nuclear medicineApr 4th 2007
Robert Taylor
We may never know what the UFO's pilots made of himMar 29th 2007
Preah Maha Ghosananda
The birdlike man who walked for peace through the mine-strewn jungleMar 22nd 2007
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