Leaders

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The right to die

Laws on euthanasia need to be reformed in ways that put the rights of the individual first

America and its guns

Land of the free

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Japan sees the light

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War's end in El Salvador

But peace needs time to grow

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India's trial

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Less Walesa

Good revolutionaries tend to make bad rulers

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The bullies of Vilnius

March 1990: How Mikhail Gorbachev reacted to Lithuania's desire for independence

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Hooked on just saying no

Minimising the evil of drugs means learning to live with them, legally

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Our man for the Nobel

If it were up to The Economist, this year's Nobel prize for peace would go to...

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There is a better way

From 1984: Food aid bad, but food aid essential: an Ethiopian tragedy

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Sorry, Melina

The Elgin marbles should stay put—or at least find their true price

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Test-tube babies

The moral questions scientists cannot duck