Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s?

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We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few months before September’s presidential election.

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New minister Jason Clare opted for adjustment rather than a rethink. Pending his own review, he delayed renegotiating the NSRA for twelve months. When it came, the “better and fairer schools” report ...

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Galloping economic inequality has provoked much fretting about social mobility, and particularly about entry into the ranks of “the privileged,” along with some soul-searching on whether mobility is ...

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