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Meet the Taliban: not as bad as you think

25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

The west knows it can't win in Afghanistan. The only prospect for lasting peace is to negotiate with the Taliban, which we must learn to see through Afghan eyes

Nice to meet your big idea

25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

How useful are global gatherings that invite great minds to share ideas and innovations in person?

Letter from Colombia

25th August 2010  —  Issue 174  Free entry

Colombia has emerged from anarchy. Nation-builders elsewhere should be taking note

Edinburgh fringe festival: struggling to surprise
The quality at this year’s fringe festival was high, but there were too few shocks. Now that comedy is part of the mainstream, has it lost its cutting edge?

Who guards the Guardian? The loss-making newspaper group chose to secure its future through risky financial wheeling and dealing. It should have taken the advice of its own columnists

Football’s new age of fan power?
As the football season unfolds, will Manchester United’s fans topple its US owners and set a pattern for returning English clubs to their communities?

Wanted: an old, new left


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

The centre-left must reinvent itself again by raising the stalled living standards of ordinary workers—and look beyond economics to shape a new social patriotism

Divided they stand


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Fifteen years on from the end of the war, Bosnia is struggling economically and politically—and is more ethnically fractured than ever. Will the conflict return?

Who guards the Guardian?


24th August 2010  —  Issue 174

The loss-making newspaper group chose to secure its future through risky financial wheeling and dealing. It should have taken the advice of its own columnists

Exclusive interview: Gaspar Noe


26th August 2010  —  Issue 174

The enfant terrible of French cinema, director of the provocative film "Irreversible," talks about his long-anticipated new feature: "Enter the Void"

Is America going bust?


19th August 2010  —  Issue 173

Obama has promised to halve the the US deficit by 2013, but nobody seems to know how he'll manage it

In defence of equality


10th August 2010  —  Issue 173

In response to recent criticism, the authors of The Spirit Level defends its claim that there is always a link between social problems and inequality

Primary cause for concern


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Rushing to introduce yet another type of school will not improve educational standards

Multinationals think local


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

The BP crisis showed that global corporations are not all-powerful. Now they must adapt to survive

A new passage to India


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Labour saw India too much through the eyes of Britain's Asian diaspora. Time for a rethink

Picture this


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Robots using radar could identify explosive devices more accurately than conventional minesweepers

Lab report


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Wanted: a new breeding ground for antibiotics

The month ahead


19th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Anjana Ahuja on bees, cities of the future and science's big festival

Edinburgh fringe festival: struggling to surprise


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

The quality at this year’s fringe festival was high, but there were too few shocks. Now that comedy is part of the mainstream, has it lost its cutting edge?

Imperfect spies


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

John le Carré’s righteous anger ignites his fast-paced new novel, but it can’t make up for a cast of unconvincing characters

How full is the glass?


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Two “state we’re in” analyses by a pessimistic philosopher and an optimistic scientist are best taken with a tot of scepticism

Save as Many as you Ruin


21st June 2010  —  Issue 172

Extra letters to the editor


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Diary


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

Papal precedents, spats in bookland... and goodbye Berlusconi?

In fact


25th August 2010  —  Issue 174

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