■The world this week

Politics this week(4)

Business this week

KAL's cartoon(1)


■Leaders

The European Union

Europe goes to the polls(42)

Defending Japan

Collective insecurity(21)

India’s new government

Kick-starting India(17)

British social ills

Privet and privation(2)

Google and the EU

On being forgotten(16)


■Letters

Letters

On Premier League football, global ageing, sharing economy, land management, South Africa, flash fiction, rail travel, knobs


■Briefing

The European Parliament

Elected, yet strangely unaccountable(2)


■United States

Mid-term voters

Older, whiter, righter(23)

Newark’s new mayor

Street Fight 2.0(1)

Innocence in New Orleans

The wrong man(2)

Congressional investigations

Gowdy-amus igitur(5)

Missile defence

Star Wars 2: attack of the drones(1)

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Return of the toxic twins(1)

Religious practice

Select-a-faith

Gay marriage

Be my rock in Little Rock(4)

Lexington

The politics of coal(5)

Internship


■The Americas

Colombia’s presidential election

Ballots and bullets(4)

Bello

The PPP traffic jam

Venezuela’s unrest

Stumbling towards chaos(2)

The World Cup

Pitch imperfect(10)


■Asia

Japan and America

Closer allies

Vietnam and China

Hot oil on troubled waters(84)

India’s Hindu nationalists

Men in shorts(14)

Money in India’s elections

Silent campaigns

Thailand’s political crisis

Face-off(1)

Afghanistan’s election

Joining forces

Indonesia’s presidential election

Runners and riders

Banyan

Getting in the way(2)


■China

Bureaucracy

Fighting for identity(1)

Environmental protection

Green teeth

Getting around

Cab fair


■Middle East and Africa

Women in Saudi Arabia

Unshackling themselves(11)

Human rights in Saudi Arabia

An even longer way to go(2)

Syria’s civil war

Business as usual, bloody as ever(4)

Iran nuclear talks

Moving ahead

Iran

The perils of yoga(1)

South Africa’s election

Between a rock and a better place(2)


■Europe

Ukraine’s troubles

Into battle(62)

Life in Donetsk

Strange but also normal(2)

French defence sales

Mistral blows(25)

Mining in Turkey

Death underground(10)

Charlemagne

The eastern blockage(12)


■Britain

Social ills

Trouble spreads out(13)

Immigration

No flood, after all(2)

Scottish independence

Divided together(3)

Pfizer and AstraZeneca

A matter of trust

Gun control

Armed robbery

Takeaway restaurants

Polystyrene dreams

The Channel crossing

Set adrift(1)

Sterling

The comeback currency

Bagehot

Taking down Nigel Farage(6)

Correction

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■International

The Catholic church and child abuse

Looming shadows(3)

Roman Catholic vocations

Fewer are called

Statelessness

Nowhere to call home
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■Business

Private hospitals in Asia

On call

Google and online privacy

Cut that link(3)

Management consulting

From advising to doing(1)

Low-cost airlines in Asia

Too much of a good thing(2)

Small business in Mexico

The Peter Pan syndrome(1)

Lorenzo Zambrano

Enlightened conquistador

Schumpeter

Love on the rocks(2)


■Finance and economics

European venture capital

Innovation by fiat(2)

Buttonwood

One dollar, one vote

Tax collection in Latin America

Electronic arm-twisting

The Federal Reserve

Supersize me(3)

Bank regulation

Too small to torture(1)

European migration

The great escape

Japanese banks

Still waiting

Free exchange

The opposite of insurance(1)


■Science and technology

Language and morality

Gained in translation(12)

High-tech farming

The light fantastic(1)

Early Americans

History in a black hole

Melting glaciers

Collapse or catastrophe?(6)

Maternity

Baby brain on board(1)


■Books and arts

Europe and the euro

A troubled union

Britain and Europe

In or out?

The financial crisis

Man in charge(2)

The Snowden leaks

Peering into the darkness

New fiction and essays

Tangible traces

Kara Walker in New York

Sour sweet

Correction


■Obituary

Nina Cassian(2)


■Economic and financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Global business barometer

Markets