Voting rights: Wrong questions, wrong answers
America has changed since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, but has it changed since it was reauthorised—for good cause—in 2006?(73)
Sri Lanka's opposition: Letting the general out of the bottle
The government releases its most visible opponent, leaving him with the next move(15)
Czech on trial: The state of corruption
A big corruption bust in the Czech Republic raises hopes of a serious approach to sleaze(14)
California’s overcrowded prisons: The challenges of “realignment”
America is home to almost one in four of the world’s prisoners. Now its largest state is embarking on reform(88)
The Lord’s Resistance Army: It hasn’t gone away
But the real problem is a lack of government in east and central Africa(7)
Democratic dysfunction: Is the filibuster illegal?
A new lawsuit to strike down the filibuster is likely to fail; bigger thinking is needed anyway(106)
A passion play in prison: Enacting forgiveness and redemption
A uniquely powerful staging of "The Life of Jesus Christ" at Louisiana State Penitentiary(40)
The week ahead: May 11th 2012: A very busy in-tray
FRANÇOIS Hollande is sworn in as president of France, Germany’s largest state holds an election, Ratko Mladic goes on trial at the Hague and Facebook goes public(0)
Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws: An inconvenient death
A sad story of bad law, absurd sentences and political expediency(71)
Central America’s gangs: A meeting of the maras
Precarious truces between gangs have lowered the murder rate in two of the world’s most violent countries—but for how long?(35)
An intellectual-property exchange: Marketplace of ideas
A new financial exchange hopes to make it easier to trade patent rights(10)
Gay marriage: Punctuated equilibrium
Barack Obama makes up his mind on gay marriage(339)
The 9/11 trial: Justice delayed
A farcical start to a lengthy process(23)
Stephen King on taxes: Pet theory sematary
Killing the "if-you-want-your-taxes-raised-why-don't-you-send-the-IRS-a-bigger-cheque" meme(60)
A roundup of the week's Americas stories(0)
Congo: Will it ever be stable?
Another rebellion is brewing in Congo’s lawless east(12)
Tihar prison in India: More dovecote than jail
Prison rarely deters either rich or poor lawbreakers(6)
Fiscal policy: The master of horror on taxes
Whether rich liberals ought to donate money to the government is a confusing and probably irrelevant question(140)
Charles Taylor: What's fair for the war-criminal goose
The former president of Liberia unconvincingly cited American actions in his defence(43)
Race and capital punishment: One more round
Striking black jurors for no good reason(46)
A roundup of the week's Americas stories(0)
Video surveillance: I spy, with my big eye
Face recognition is good news for the police, but bad news for privacy lovers(9)
North Carolina and the death penalty: A jury of whose peers?
North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act commutes its first sentence(7)
Race and capital punishment: The fair-minded need not apply
The shameful legacy of racial bias among prosecutors in North Carolina leads to the commutation of one man's death sentence(79)
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