On the cover
The European Union celebrates its 50th birthday in sombre mood: leader


The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
Leaders
The European Union
Europe's mid-life crisis
France's president
Jacques Chirac's poisoned legacy
Zimbabwe
Toppling a tyrant
Climate change
What price carbon?
Microfinance
Time to take the credit
Letters
On corporate R&D, Guatemala, outdoor activities, generic drugs,
Thailand, cricket, Anna Nicole Smith

Special Report
The Chirac legacy
It all went wrong
United States
George Bush, Congress and the law
Three clashing branches
Campaigning on the internet
Of slips and video clips
Gun control
One step back
Presidential libraries
A room of his own
New Orleans's slow recovery
The long road home
Civil confinement
Locked up, just in case
Drunk driving in New Mexico
Steady on the tequila
Lexington
Taming Leviathan
The Americas
Latin America and the United States
A cautious welcome for the gringo
Mexico's economy
Raise or see?
Ecuador
Correa v Congress
Wine in Argentina and Chile
Vino's twin peaks
Asia
Security in Asia
We're just good friends, honest
Democracy in China
Hong Kong's make-believe election
Taiwan
Cultural revolution
Fiji and Tonga
A tale of two island states
The Philippines
Latin upbeat
Pakistan
Poor judgment
Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
The face of oppression
Uganda
America's friend
Nigeria
Blood and oil
Democracy in the Middle East
Regression analysis
Israel
Better red than dead?

Europe
Russian politics
The Kremlin's new cookbook
Spain and terrorism
Zapatero's dilemmas
Reinventing Hamburg
Hanseatic realpolitik
Churches in eastern Europe
God-bothered
Silvio Berlusconi in court again
Justice on trial
Charlemagne
Climate control
Correction: Special report on the European Union
Britain
Climate change
A hot topic gets hotter
Carbon offsets
Ripping off would-be greens?
The Olympic bill
Record-breaking
Trident
Rebels with a cause


International
Learning about the past
Where history isn't bunk
Israeli and Palestinian history
So hard to reconcile
Positive prejudice
Really loving your neighbour

A survey on the European Union
Fit at 50?
Are you sitting comfortably?
The quest for prosperity
Constitutional conundrum
The ins and outs
Four Ds for Europe
The European Union at 100
Sources and acknowledgements
Offer to readers
Business
The film industry
Hollywood's new model
Viacom and YouTube
War is declared
Corporate scandals
Black clouds
German corruption
The hollow men
Carrefour
Crossroads
Brand management
Spring cleaning
Pulp and paper
Flat prospects
Mining
New frontiers
Face value
Nasdaq's nemesis
Special Report
Family capitalism
Our company right or wrong
Finance & Economics
Global imbalances
Sustaining the unsustainable
Buttonwood
Ponzificating
Big-money management
Buffettology for the Chinese
America's capital markets
Buffettology for Wall Street
Mutual funds
Hedge-fund envy
Vietnam's stockmarket
The South China Sea bubble
Economics focus
Small loans and big ambitions
The Marjorie Deane internship
Science & Technology
Evidence-based ethics
Logical endings
Flu vaccination
Pricking consciences
Environmental genomics
Sorcerer's apprenticeship
Consumer electronics
Mind games
Chronobiology
Time and chance
Correction: Satellites
Books & Arts
Tobacco
An evil weed
Wartime espionage
Secrets and spies
An African adventurer
Dark deeds
A memoir of Zimbabwe
The house that Bob burned down
International relations
An interconnected world
Biedermeier
The beauty of simplicity
Obituary
Jean Baudrillard
Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
The cost of living
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The world's richest people
Markets