■The world this week
Politics this week (1)
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (3)

■Leaders
Business and government
The new age of crony capitalism (44)
Cable consolidation in America
Turn it off (17)
Russia, Ukraine and Crimea
Asymmetric wars (102)
Changing constitutions
All shall have rights (4)
Britain and Europe
Hold ’em (7)

■Letters
Letters
On democracy, prisons, space flight, Uganda (1)

■Briefing
Fighting corruption in India
A bad boom (9)

■United States
The mid-term elections
Can the Republicans win the Senate? (65)
Obamacare
Searching for the young invisibles (8)
Spies and the Senate
Di-spy (7)
Military strategy
War games (3)
Gun safes
Locked and loaded (5)
Education in California
Dance of the lemons (4)
Marine parks
Blackfish blues (2)
Lexington
The Ben Carson mirage (3)

■The Americas
Brazil’s presidential election
Winning hearts and likes (3)
Bello
Dallying with a monster
Colombia’s congressional election
Hostile forces
Canadian erotica
Don’t screw with them (3)

■Asia
Politics in India’s states
The other half (2)
The Malaysia Airlines disappearance
Confusion reigns (26)
Malaysian politics and the law
Long arms (4)
Central Asia’s autocracies after Crimea
Russian roulette (2)
New Zealand’s politics
Flag fall

■China
China’s military spending
At the double (5)
Gays
“Cures” for homosexuality (1)
Banyan
Non-interference on the line (3)

■Middle East and Africa
Kenya
Trotting ahead (6)
Democratic Republic of Congo
Green shoots amid the shooting
Libya’s government
Sailing into troubled waters
Ceasefires in Syria
Oases and mirages

■Europe
Russia and Ukraine
The home front (21)
Crimea’s referendum
A predictable outcome (1)
Bavaria’s CSU
The secret of King Horst’s success
French politics
A scandal tainting both sides (1)
Poland’s economy
Can do even better (1)
Charlemagne
Election or selection? (3)

■Britain
Labour and Europe
Europhile and proud (1)
Food crime
A la cartel (2)
Bob Crow
The last walkout (1)
Solar farms
Blue steel
Police oversight
Missing a beat (4)
Business investment
From a spark to a flame
Bagehot
The kindest cut
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■International
Our crony-capitalism index
Planet Plutocrat (10)

■Business
Consumers in China
The true meaning of san yao wu
Mobile telecoms
Four is a magic number (2)
Mining in Colombia
Digging itself out of a hole (1)
Railways in Mexico
Something to choo-choo over
German firms in Russia
Lovers, not fighters (3)
Facilities management
Service elevators
Legal jobs
The price of success
Photographic agencies
Moving pictures (2)
Schumpeter
Ideas reinvenTED

■Finance and economics
Japan’s pension giant
Risk on (3)
Buttonwood
The big issue
Herbalife
The House of Cards put (3)
Whistleblowers
A $64m question
China’s economy
An alternative view
China’s banking
March of the banks (1)
Bitcoin’s future
Hidden flipside (5)
Free exchange
Money from nothing

■Science and technology
Combating bad science
Metaphysicians (5)
Diagnosing dementia
This is not spinal tap
Gambling and the brain
Slotting in an explanation (1)
Elephants
Know your enemy

■Books and arts
Entrepreneurship
The art of the struggle
The South China Sea
Troubled waters (1)
John Carey
Reader, I read it (1)
New British fiction
London pride
Ferran Adria
Bulli for him
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Northern light (5)

■Obituary
Huber Matos (1)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Wall Street bonuses
Markets