■The world this week
Politics this week (1)
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (5)

■Leaders
America after the mid-terms
Welcome back to Washington (291)
Jerusalem’s holy sites
Temple madness (128)
Drugs policy
Marijuana milestone (68)
Japan’s economy
Big bazookas (6)
Performance indicators
How to lie with indices (7)

■Letters
On Congress, Heathrow, Myanmar, food, IndiGo airlines, skiving
Letters to the editor (2)

■Briefing
American democracy
Powering down (15)

■United States
The mid-terms: the Senate
Republicans on a roll (6)
The mid-terms: the House
House keeping (1)
Statehouses and governors
Even worse news for Democrats (11)
Fiscal policy after the mid-terms
The governance test (9)
Ballot initiatives
A little liberal comfort (2)
The funniest campaign ads
Of bridal dresses and sweatshirts (2)
The Supreme Court
Going overboard (13)
Lexington
A big win for John Kasich (8)

■The Americas
The United States-Canadian border
Undefended no more (14)
Colombia’s Pacific region
More than perfume, please (1)
Bello
A test of Peña Nieto’s mettle (8)

■Asia
Japan and Abenomics
Riding to the rescue (1)
Pakistan and India
Wearing thin (43)
Domestic politics in South Korea
Staying power
East Asian firms in China
A bridge over troubled waters (2)
Kazakhstan’s spaceport
Final countdown
Banyan
Healing a wounded country (1)

■China
Foreign policy
Showing off to the world (23)
Myopia
Losing focus (3)
Investment flows
Going out (1)

■Middle East and Africa
The city of pieces
Undivided and eternal unhappiness (40)
Satire in the Middle East
Laughing at the humourless (1)
Syria’s war
Rapidly unravelling (46)
Burkina Faso
Not so pretty now (1)
Tanzania’s dwindling elephants
Big game poachers (5)

■Europe
The Berlin Wall
Twenty-five years on (2)
Ukraine’s separatists
Shrinking country (186)
Spanish corruption
A lot of bad apples (6)
French eco-politics
The dam bursts (1)
Charlemagne
The emerald shines again (6)

■Britain
Decentralisation
Let them fly (3)
Immigration
What have the immigrants ever done for us? (24)
How much tax goes on welfare?
Digging deeper (5)
The leverage ratio
Never lever land (1)
Scotch reels
Dram drama (2)
Social mobility
What goes up (1)
Wages
An honest living (4)
Policing
Cautions to the wind
Britain and the EU
The Germans strike back (13)
Bagehot
Andy Burnham’s big battle (3)
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■International
Performance indices
Ranking the rankings (1)
Internet use
A tangled web

■Business
Twitter’s future
How high can it fly? (8)
East German industry
Still not over the wall (4)
Spooks v tech firms
Crypto wars 2.0 (3)
Russian media firms
Interesting news (3)
China’s carmakers
Zoom, zoom, splutter (3)
Gay people in business
Out at the top (10)
Companies and water
Value diluted (2)
Schumpeter
The Marlboro of marijuana (16)

■Finance and economics
Emerging markets
The dodgiest duo in the suspect six (48)
Buttonwood
Every man for himself (1)
Tax reform in India
The truck stops here (1)
Banking in Japan
Celestial Suruga
The World Bank
Opprobrium from the atrium (5)
The Federal Reserve
Advice and dissent (3)
America’s crackdown on tax evasion
Weil walks (2)
Saving in Germany
Worse than nothing (2)
Emerging-market corporate debt
Invisible bonds
Free exchange
Forget the 1% (5)

■Science and technology
Virgin Galactic and Orbital Sciences
Actually, it is rocket science (18)
Evolution
Nuclear reaction
Genetically modified crops
Field research (5)
The Human Protein Atlas
Balls and brains
Correction

■Books and arts
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The German open
Germany at the British Museum
History lessons (1)
Economic history
The searing Twenties (5)
New York property
Reason not the need
Peter Carey
Forget-me-not
Frogs
Toad haul
Correction

■Obituary
Obituary: Joan Quigley
The president’s stargazer (8)

■Economic and financial indicators
Interactive indicators
Output, prices and jobs (1)
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, November averages
Markets