Leaders

Crime and punishment

How to pacify the world’s most violent region

The iron-fist approach will not solve Latin America’s gang-violence problem

The dream that darkened

Why South Africans are fed up after 30 years of democracy

After a bright start the ANC has proved incapable of governing for the whole country

Truth or lies?

How disinformation works?and how to counter it

More co-ordination is needed, and better access to data

Uncle Sam’s fiscal folly

America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy?and the world’s

Without good luck or a painful adjustment, the only way out will be to let inflation rip

A region in mortal danger

Emmanuel Macron’s urgent message for Europe

The French president issues a dark and prophetic warning

All talk

Should American universities call the cops on protesting students?

The principles involved in resolving campus protests are not that hard

The haven falls

Japan is wrong to try to prop up the yen

Supporting the currency is expensive and futile

A Holyrood ending

The wider lessons of Scotland’s political turmoil

Humza Yousaf’s resignation is the latest in a string of setbacks

Brechrit?

Why leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea for Britain

The next litmus test of Tory purity

Breakbone blues

A mosquito-borne disease is spreading as the planet warms

Dengue fever must be curbed

The rise of a new economic power

How strong is India’s economy?

It isn’t the next China, but it could still transform itself and the world

Good news, for now

America’s latest aid will give Ukraine only a temporary reprieve

The bitterness of the struggle in Washington is a sign of trouble ahead