======
◆On the cover
Faith will unsettle politics everywhere this century. It will do so least when it is separated from the state



======
◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

======
◆Leaders
Faith and politics
The new wars of religion
Scotland
Tax and mend
Argentina
The coronation of Queen Cristina
Taxes in America
No more than a B-
Robots
Rise of the machines

======
◆Letters
On California's wildfires, Al Gore, French law, Cornish, Armenia and Turkey, free speech, banks

======
◆Special Report
Ethiopia
A brittle Western ally in the Horn of Africa

======
◆United States
The election
Who will take on Hillary?
The Economist/YouGov poll
Iran
Tightening a loose noose
The farm bill
Filling the hoppers
Mississippi
On the move
Catholics
Make way for Houston
Denver
The dream of Hickenlooper
Immigrants in Arkansas
Illegal, but useful
Lexington
Last action hero

======
◆The Americas
Argentina's presidential election
The penguins' onward march
Venezuela
Making socialism official
The World Cup
Free kicks and kickbacks
Canada
Sweating the sands

======
◆Asia
Thailand's election
The indestructible Mr Thaksin
The Three Gorges
One dam thing after another
Australia's opposition
In ruddy health
Myanmar
Monks march again
Holidays in North Korea
Sun, sex and Stalinism

======
◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya
Could the president be ousted?
South Africa
The rise of the buppies
Somalia
Failed state, failed leader
Africa and football
Neo-imperialism at the point of a boot
Sudan
Darfur bleeds as talks fail
Iraq
Al-Qaeda in retreat, for now

======
◆Europe
Germany's government
The odd couple
Commemoration in Germany
Past recalled
The Madrid bomb trials
Historic verdicts
Denmark's election
The soup thickens
France's constitution
Parliamentary battles
Ireland's prime minister
Paying the piper
Turkey's Kurds
Dreams and reality
Romania's rule of law
Justice for some
Charlemagne
Britain's costly disdain

======
◆Britain
Foreign workers
Undercounted and over here
Saudi state visit
Learning to sup with a long spoon
The English question
Handle with care
Prostitution and advertising
Indecent proposals

======
◆International
The UN and climate change
The icy road to Bali
Learning and inequality
A man's world?
======
◆Business
Business books
Kicking ass in an unflat world
Social networking
Face off
Gap
Clean, wholesome and American?
Dubai
Soaring buildings, sliding dollar
Japanese electronics firms
Chopped chips
Chinese companies
Trojan dragons
Product placement
In the picture
Face value
New colours at Benetton
Award: Business book of the year

======
◆Special Report
Unmanned aircraft
The fly's a spy

======
◆Finance & Economics
Investment banks
Loss leaders
Buttonwood
Kings of the wild frontier
The Federal Reserve
Another notch down
Japan's economy
Rate expectations
Oil
Super-spiked
The IMF
Kahn do
Economics focus
Money v mosquito

======
◆Science & Technology
Public health
To avoid the Big C, stay small
Electric cars
Wingless migration
Robot cars
A challenge, eh?
Drugs and sport
How to cheat without cheating
Bird migration
Blue light special
======
◆Books & Arts
Britain and America
Hail to the chiefs
Foreign policy
Blowing cool, blowing hot
Jihadism
The brains behind the bombs
Espionage
Inventing the dots
The life of Charles Schulz
Good grief
The Renaissance in Siena
Saint Catherine's first journey
Correction: Augustus Caesar
======
◆Obituary
R.B. Kitaj
======
◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Metals
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Competitiveness