Worth reading

• The outcome of India's elections (Economist)

• The problem with democracy-promotion in Egypt (Newsweek)

• What Bill Clinton's up to (New York Times)

• What makes us happy (Atlantic)

• An examination of South Africa's new president (Atlantic)

• The situation in Pakistan (New York Review of Books)

• Some ways to improve the prison system (New York Review of Books)

• How much of a racist was Abe Lincoln? (New York Review of Books)

• Why Delta Airlines isn't flying to Nairobi (McClatchy)

• Why some parts of the country spend so much more on health care than others (New Yorker)