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Health-care reform

Republicans sign up for political pain

Tulsa’s finances

How one American city is coping with a broken state budget

Trump’s executive orders

How much do sanctuary cities stand to lose?

Sanctuary cities

Will Texas go the way of California?

Man in the middle

Chief Justice Roberts leans to the left

On the wrong track

New York’s railways are in terrible shape

Going public

Private schools are doing worse in Washington, DC

Lexington

America’s allies are figuring out Donald Trump

No butter, but lots of guns

The armed forces will decide the fate of Venezuela’s regime

Chemists v criminals

Uruguayan pharmacies will start selling cannabis

Parles-tu québécois?

Culture shock for French immigrants—in French Canada

Bello

Can Colombia’s centre hold?

Post-Park life

The revolution that ousted South Korea’s president is unfinished

On the offensive

Shinzo Abe sets a date for revising Japan’s pacifist constitution

Wake up and sell the coffee

Timor-Leste’s big-spending leaders are squandering its savings

Stepping up to the plate

A Pakistani province starts taking food safety seriously

Banyan

Can TPP go ahead without America?

The belt-and-road express

China faces resistance to a cherished theme of its foreign policy

The bullies of Urumqi

The extraordinary ways in which China humiliates Muslims

From shrub to shirt to shelf

The journey of an African cotton boll

I come to bury him, not to praise myself

Why South African politicians campaign at funerals

Judgment day

Sisi takes on Egypt’s judiciary

Movement, but how much change?

The Palestinian president visits the White House

Down and out in Cairo and Beirut

The sorry state of Arab men

The most consequential election of 2017

Even if defeated, Marine Le Pen has changed French politics

Angie’s army

Two German state elections suggest a boost for Angela Merkel

Brothers in arms

Turkey and Russia cosy up over missiles

War music

Another Eurovision song contest, another diplomatic crisis

A new kind of revolution

Russians rebel against plans to tear down their homes

Charlemagne

What Emmanuel Macron’s home town says about him

The European Union and the election

A nasty spat erupts between Britain and the EU

An explosive appointment

This year’s election artist will be unlike any other

The nuclear cliff-edge

What if Britain crashes out of Euratom?

Speakers’ Corner

Quotes from the campaign trail

Another country

London has long bucked national electoral trends. Will it again?

Eggs in one basket

Take away finance, and Britain's FDI figures collapse

Chinks of light

When TED talks came to a British prison

Grey to blue

Britain’s generational divide has never been wider

Bagehot

Established political parties are crumbling. Why not the Tories?

Doing good and doing well

A growing share of aid is spent by private firms, not charities

Ten years on

A decade after the crisis, how are the world’s banks doing?

When the music stopped

How the 2007-08 crisis unfolded

Sheep and goats

American banks have recovered well; many European ones much less so

After Dodd-Frank

American banks think they are over-regulated

Bother over Basel

Basel 3, an international capital-adequacy standard, is unloved but much needed

Financial technology

Financial technology is proving less of a battleground than feared

The millennial problem

Banks are finding it harder to attract young recruits

How safe are banks?

Another crisis one day cannot be ruled out

Still the champion?

ESPN is losing subscribers but it is still Disney’s cash machine

No brakes

Alphabet’s case against Uber

Hard to swallow

Cancer drugs are getting better and dearer

Taken for a ride

Saudi women are a captive market for Uber and Careem

Burning the fat

Neste uses animal waste to make a cleaner form of diesel

Metamorphosis

Axel Springer’s digital transformation

The burghers rise up

America’s food-truck revolution stalls in some cities

Schumpeter

Harvard Business School risks going from great to good

The Buffetts of China

Warren Buffett has many fans in China but few true followers

Buttonwood

Investors are both bullish and skittish about share prices

Taking the ultra-long view

America’s Treasury ponders issuing 40-, 50- or 100-year bonds

To be resolved

Puerto Rico declares bankruptcy at last

On the horns

Might legalising the rhino-horn trade actually help the rhino?

Subprime, anyone?

Worries mount about car finance in America and Britain

Speeding up

Euro-area GDP growth outpaces America’s

Free exchange

Price-bots can collude against consumers

Biotechnology

Cell-free biotech will make for better products

The fight against AIDS

How to protect women against both HIV and pregnancy

Fatal attraction

The link between pollution and heart disease

Conservation

Tourists really do seem to help to preserve wild animals

The London stage

How to run the National Theatre

Children of jihad

The long birth of Islamic state

Architecture and the 21st-century city

How to bring cities back from the brink

Calling all art lovers

The pitfalls of investing in art

Fiction from Congo

The latest work from Africa’s Samuel Beckett

An offering you can’t refuse

“The Godfather” 45 years on

Clarification: Option B

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Obituary: Albert Freedman died on April 11th