US democracy is sickly and only the Democratic party is positioned to save it, argues The Economist, but first it needs to ditch fringe progressivism that is a turn-off for middle-of-the-road voters.
Millions of children are still out of school around the world and may never reach their full potential. The economic cost of this is stacking up.
As confidence in developers' ability to complete presold homes rises, so does a new movement among Chinese mortgage-holders simply to stop making payments.
The American-supplied Himars rockets are wiping out arms dumps and command posts.