On the cover
After the great global housing binge, the hangover is kicking in.
Especially in America: leader

The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
Leaders
Housing markets
The trouble with the housing market
Human rights
Stand up for your rights
America and Colombia
How to boost the coca crop
The Middle East
Time for an Arab road map
Executive pay
A penny for your thoughts
Letters
On nuclear tests, inflation, slavery, Japan, Hershey, food

Special Report
Iraq
Mugged by reality
United States
The Iraq war
Collateral damage
New York's governor
You ain't seen nothing yet
Free speech in schools
Of banners and bongs
Driving licences
Too much information
The politics of climate change
Gore's war
Los Angeles architecture
From Persian folly to boring boxes
Lexington
American idiocracy
The Americas
Colombia
The perils of 菟arapolitics・
Brazil's economy
Bigger than thought
Canada
Family viewing
Asia
North Korea's nuclear programme
Show us the money
China's orphans
Party girl
Malaysia
Cleaning up?
Central Asian migration
Steppe change
Uttar Pradesh
Caste, your vote
India and Afghanistan
The Great Game revisited
Indonesia
Speechless in Bali
Middle East & Africa
Palestine
The squeeze continues
The Arab League
Saudi Arabia's moment
Iran
All hands to the pump
Zimbabwe
Houdini holds on, for now
Somalia
Slipping backwards

Europe
Angela Merkel
Unfinished homework
Poland and Europe
A foreign affair?
Kosovo and Russia
Veto threats
Serbia's future
The costs of non-Europe
France's presidential election
La France profonde
Dangerous Russia
Fools and bad roads
Charlemagne
Existential dreaming
Britain
The budget
Gordon's last fling
Subprime mortgages
When the tide goes out
Pub closures
Time, gentlemen
Water in London
My sewer runneth over

International
Amnesty International
Many rights, some wrong
Human Rights and the UN
Great expectations
Psychiatry and films
Great plot, shame about the characters


Business
Executive salaries
The politics of pay
Travel firms
Double-booked
Virgin America
Flying the flag
Video games
Console wars
Health-care mergers
Meandering giants
BP
In their own words...
Doing business in China
An inspector calls
Face value
Rocket Man
Special Report
America's housing market
Cracks in the fa軋de
Finance & Economics
European bank mergers
Revving up for a demolition derby
Buttonwood
What's it all about, alpha?
Exchanges
A look into the future
Enron litigation
Laying down
Blackstone's IPO
Bigger than Rod
Accounting scandals
Japanese massage
Economics focus
A stitch in time saves nine
The Marjorie Deane internship
Science & Technology
Malaria
A shift of perspective
Evolution
Darwin's rotifers
Philosophy and neuroscience
Posing the right question
Higher mathematics
Truth and Lies
Books & Arts
The future of books
Not bound by anything
Ireland from 1939 to 1945
The power of neutrality
Russia's bloody wars
Small state seeks new history
The fate of coral
Not just a pretty polyp
Contemporary dance
Point man
Obituary
Preah Maha Ghosananda
Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Taxing wages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Metals