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Iran’s nuclear pledges
Malaysia’s illiberal lurch
Europe’s economy—the parrot twitches
The promise of Sky-Fi
APRIL
11TH
17TH 2015
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Tambora: the big bang of 1815
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Contents
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The world this week
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Leaders
Hillary Clinton in 2016
What does she stand for?
Repression in Malaysia
Disconnect
The euro-zone revival
Don’t get europhoric
Nuclear non-proliferation
A nuclear test for the
Obama doctrine
Britain’s taxes
No to non-doms
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Asia
Economic policy in Japan
Abe and the central bank
Terrorism in Malaysia
Illiberal measures
Politics in Taiwan
Grassroots power
Banning beef in India
The politics of beef
Australia’s Great Barrier
Reef
Judgment day
The reef’s
crown-of-thorns starfish
Coral-killers
The Economist
April 11th 2015
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On the cover
The most familiar presidential
candidate is surprisingly
unknown: leader, page 11.
Hillary Clinton has no serious
rivals for the Democratic
nomination. But voters still
have plenty of doubts about
her, page 25
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Iran
The promise and dangers
of negotiating with the mullahs:
leader, page 14. The odds on a
nuclear deal have shortened,
but it is not yet in the bag,
page 42
Letters
18 On equality, Britain,
Singapore, airports,
business cards
Briefing
21 Volcanoes and climate
After Tambora
United States
The Democratic
nomination
A contest, or a coronation?
Rand Paul
An eye doctor’s vision
Guns and anger
Trigger happy
Drought in California
The price is wrong
Chicago
Rejecting Hanukkah Harry
Lexington
Why students make better
senators
China
39 Opinion polls
Taking the pulse
40 Government websites
Frozen in time
41 Banyan
Where all Silk Roads lead
Middle East and Africa
Iran nuclear deal
Too soon to celebrate
The war against IS (1)
Creeping towards Damascus
The war against IS (2)
Mosul beckons
Libya’s civil war
An oily mess
Nigeria’s president-elect
Don’t expect miracles
Urban regeneration
Polishing the city of gold
An atrocity in Kenya
Could things get worse?
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Cuba
American business is
eager to cross the Florida
Strait, but obstacles remain,
page 31. Latin America will
start to put pragmatism ahead
of ideology in dealing with the
United States: Bello, page 33
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31 Normalisation with Cuba
The thrill of the thaw
32 Elections in Bolivia
A rebuff to Evo Morales
33 Bello
A warmer Latin climate for
Obama
British tax rules
Labour’s plan
to end a tax break for the rich
and mobile is welcome. But
the party must not scare off
business: leader, page 16.
Ed Miliband promises to abolish
non-domiciled residents, page
53. The Tories and Labour are
running dreary campaigns,
pandering to their bases:
Bagehot, page 54. Visit our
website to read our special
report on the wackiest, most
diverse, least predictable
British election for many years
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