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How to hack the freeconomy
The techies who figured out how not to pay for an Uber, or a mattress, ever again
At Easter, beware chocolate-scoffing dogs
Vets report a spike in canine intoxication cases when the Easter Bunny visits
In “Machines Like Me”, Ian McEwan asks an age-old question
Beneath the androids and the game-playing is a discussion of what makes people human
What to make of the Mueller report
The redacted version suggests that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy
The stratolaunch
LOOK BURT RUTAN up on Wikipedia and it will claim he has retired. This aeroplane casts doubt on that statement. Mr Rutan is probably the most original aircraft designer in the world, and Stratolaunch,…
Kyrgyzstan’s neighbours have too little politics, but it has too much
Central Asia’s only democracy is looking unhealthy
India’s bankruptcy code collides with reality
A much-ballyhooed insolvency regime faces court challenges
The wisdom of José Carlos Mariátegui
The Latin American left should rediscover the Peruvian thinker’s pluralism and creativity
Hope remains for Western solidarity. Look at embassies in Beijing
China has only itself to blame for encouraging them to work together
Why Pakistan lets Arab bigwigs set falcons on rare birds
Money and politics could doom a vulnerable bustard
A rollicking biography of Richard Sorge, a master Soviet spy
His intelligence on Operation Barbarossa may have proved decisive for the outcome of the second world war
India’s next government is likely to be a coalition of mercenaries
Regional parties usually throw their lot in with the highest bidder
Chevron buys Anadarko for its shale assets
The $33bn megadeal signals consolidation in the fracking business
Why India is one of the most polluted countries on Earth
It has the capacity to clean up, but not the political will
At this stage in the Democratic primary polls are unreliable
But they can predict who will be at the front of the pack with some accuracy
Republican state legislatures are overturning ballot initiatives
The conservative suspicion of the demos is alive and well
American banks’ earnings are boosted by retail business
Markets sparkled, but that’s not where the money was
Saudi Aramco looks downstream, and East
The oil giant’s shift towards Asia and beyond crude should worry its Western rivals
Democrats push for Washington, DC, to become the 51st state
Republicans, unsurprisingly, are less keen
Alan García, Peru’s ex-president, killed himself as police sought to arrest him
A tragic turn in a corruption investigation that crosses Latin America