Best of 2007: all articles

Tuesday 28th July

Ingmar Bergman and Sweden: an epoch’s end

The great filmmaker's bond with his homeland was conflictual as well as intimate 
Tuesday 17th February

Beirut and contradiction: reading the World Press Photo award

The writer and Saqi publisher died on 17 February 2007. Her last article - on Beirut - is here. Plus: memory trio, and life journey
Friday 24th October

Who’s Next? Russia’s Cat and Mouse Game with Moldova

A neglected "frozen conflict" needs a shared not a unilateral solution
Monday 25th February

Happy birthday, Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe's president turns 84 with a lavish party in his starving country. Wilf Mbanga, former friend turned exiled editor of "The Zimbabwean", writes to him (archive)
Tuesday 11th December

Globalisation: sleepwalking to disaster

The scale of global debt reflects a broken financial system

Wednesday 21st November

Lahore: urban space, niche repression

Pakistan's arc of protest leaves its most historic and political city unmoved

Wednesday 31st October

Walter Lippmann and American journalism today

An age of media collusion and deceit needs Walter Lippmann's voice

Wednesday 24th October

Social networks: after privacy, beyond friendship

The human costs and confusions of online identity
Friday 19th October

Climate change: from issue to magnifier

Al Gore's award is a distraction. The real debate is about ourselves
Wednesday 17th October

Guatemala: a good place to kill

Behind the election is a riven but paralysed country

Friday 12th October

Burma: protest, crackdown - and now?

After protest, what next? Plus: satellite images map the junta's abuse, and global outrage builds

Thursday 13th September

The seductions of denial

Why is evidence-based, reason-fuelled research the subject of a great refusal?
Tuesday 11th September

Al-Qaida: end of the beginning

Wars end, terrorism fades, groups die. Here's how the cycle begun on 9/11 can close

Friday 7th September

Chad's tragedy

The implosion of Chad has become part of a wider regional conflict

Wednesday 5th September

Russia vs Europe: the sovereignty wars

The troubled relationship between the European Union and Russia involves a fundamental clash of visions
Wednesday 29th August

The reconquest of America

China, Iran, Spain - and Islam - are arriving in Latin America as the US pays for its Iraq folly

Thursday 2nd August

China goes global

China's purchase of a stake in Barclays bank signals a new phase in its global economic strategy
Wednesday 1st August

Lebanon and Israel: back seat, front line

Two worlds collide in a London taxi. Bissane El-Cheikh was one
Monday 30th July

A prescription for terror

Is there a connection between the study of science and a readiness to commit terrorist acts?
Wednesday 25th July

Beijing baozi and public trust

A story of media fakery has lessons for China's people and political elite alike
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