Maddeningly addictive games have people hunched over their iPhones and Blackberries everywhere you look. Tom Standage, business editor of The Economist, takes a moment from lining up jewels to consider these casual, unputdownable diversions ... read more »
The sandy north coast of Kenya has become a playground for rich tourists. But for The Economist's Africa correspondent, this paradise is interesting for its proximity to purgatory--the resurgence of jihadist fighters in Somalia ... read more »
Kunal Dutta attends a London production of "No Man’s Land" the day after the playwright's death. "We searched the stage for new meaning", he writes. "Does the death of the author, as Roland Barthes once argued, really change anything about the work?" ... read more »
No one seems to care about global warming. The problem, argues Robert Butler, is the dull and nannyish way we are beseeched to "save the planet". Being green could be far sexier than that ... read more »
Decades after Chernobyl, it is hard to forget the dark side of nuclear power. But countries in search of carbon-free energy independence are beginning to reconsider. A correspondent for The Economist heads to Flamanville, the site of France's new nuclear-power plant ... read more »
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