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China and Tibet

The indispensable incarnation

Talk of the Dalai Lama’s “retirement” shows how much Tibet still needs him. Yet so does China(131)

The tragedy in Tucson

Are words to blame?

The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords has sparked a fiery debate about the dangers of heated political rhetoric(286)

Opinion: Speculation about the role of right-wing rhetoric promotes what it claims to oppose (157)
Opinion: Asking politicians to curb their overtly inflammatory rhetoric is reasonable (47)
Lexington discusses the glory of American discourse, how the US is nothing like Pakistan, and his initial reaction to the shooting
The shooter's belief that grammar can manipulate the mind isn't limited to a lunatic fringe (30)

BP and Deepwater Horizon

Cleaning up a mess

The Deepwater Horizon disaster shows the need for rethinking the oil industry’s regulatory regime, and for a new approach to the Gulf, a presidential commission concludes(2)

Spain and ETA

A permanent ceasefire, at least for now

Parsing the language of ETA's ceasefire declaration(19)

Post-earthquake Haiti

The year of surviving in squalor

Even allowing for some unique difficulties, the efforts of the government and outsiders to rebuild Haiti have been disappointing(3)

The conduct of economists

A Hippocratic Oath for economists

We ask our invited economic experts if their profession needs a code of conduct

Marketing

It pays to give

Letting consumers set their own prices can be good for business, as an experiment at a theme park found

Sudan

Boom town

Despite years of neglect and persecution by the north, the southern Sudanese capital is booming(3)

The war on terror

History of an unfinished fight

Peter Bergen's early analysis of the war prepares the ground for deeper ones(24)

Audio & Video »

Music videos

From cash cow to cachet

The fall and rise of the music video

From our blogs

Johnson on what the internet has done to political speech

Gulliver on Spinal Tap hotel ratings

Banyan wanders into the land that would be Gorkhaland

Democracy in America wonders who is to blame for the state of American health care

Free Exchange blogs from the American Economic Association's annual meeting in Denver

Baobab observes South Sudan's referendum

Gulliver admires Delta's approach to oversold flights

Prospero proffers some reading material

Teachers in America

The recruitment problem

America is struggling to attract talented teachers to its classrooms

Caption competition

The face that launched a thousand clicks

We ask you to do our work for us

Prospero

Whither the hipster?

G-chat with an urban anthropologist

Audio

Snowdrops

In our series on Economist authors, we talk to A.D. Miller, our former Moscow correspondent, about his novel set over a Russian winter

Indian inflation

Enough to make your eyes water

Higher food prices are especially painful for the poor

Weekly quiz

Ten questions on the current edition of The Economist, covering a range of subjects from the ammonites and Aztec gods to cowboy boots and Facebook's biggest overseas market