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◆On the cover
Whatever happens in Congress, the crisis is now global; that means governments must work together



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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◆Leaders
The credit crunch
World on the edge
John McCain and Barack Obama
An inconvenient truth
Music
A catchy new tune
Somalia
Piracy and much worse
The European far right
Dark tales from the Vienna woods


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◆Letters
On water, human rights, John McCain and Barack Obama, estate taxes, Russia, the economy, Microsoft

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◆Special Report
The US-Mexican border
Good neighbours make fences

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◆United States
The Economist's poll of economists
Examining the candidates
Bail-out politics, continued
While Wall Street burns
The election campaign
Heard on the stump
Lobbyists and the election
The war over lobbyists
After the storm
Politics and petrol problems
Swing states: Florida
A struggle in the sunshine
Lexington
Reaping the whirlwind


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◆The Americas
Latin America's economies
Keeping their fingers crossed
Ecuador's new constitution
In good faith


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◆Asia
Afghanistan
Talking to the Taliban
Indonesia's army
Going out of business
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
Both sides against the middle
Japan's slowing economy
Unbouncy Aso
Privatisation in South Korea
Against the tide
Christianity in China
Sons of heaven
China's online vigilantes
Virtual carnivores

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◆Middle East & Africa
Somalia
The world's most utterly failed state
Yemen
Jangling nerves
Syria and Lebanon
Jihadist blowback?
Iraq and Afghanistan
Petraeus's next war
South Africa
A new captain's new crew
Correction: Elephants in Congo


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◆Europe
Europe and America
Lessons from a crisis
The Fifth Republic at 50
De Gaulle revived
Austria's election
Unloved coalitions
Bavaria's election
Oktoberfuss
Belarus's election
Dictator at bay
Immigration and the European Union
Letting some of them in
Charlemagne
A changed climate

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◆Britain
Mortgage malaise
Closer and closer to home
Bradford & Bingley
Death of a one-trick pony
The Conservative Party
A poisoned chalice?
Political parties
Hero worship


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◆International
Apologies
Who's sorry now?
Nuclear security
Who wins, nukes

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◆Business
The music industry
Qualms with music
GE
Buffett to the rescue
Mergers and acquisitions
The Japanese are coming (again)
America's car industry
A bail-out that passed
Liquefied natural gas
A more liquid market
Face value
The specialty generalist


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◆Special Report
Money markets
Blocked pipes
Foreign exchange
The buck swaps here

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◆Finance & Economics
Global banks
On life support
Bank slogans
Ad nauseam
Cross-border rescues in Europe
Waiting for the big one
The Federal Reserve
Plan B
Buttonwood
Weaken the sinews
Deposit insurance
A useful fiction
Accounting
Fair cop
Rethinking Lehman Brothers
The price of failure
Echoes of the Depression
1929 and all that
Economics focus
The resilient dollar


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◆Science & Technology
Defining death
O death, when is thy sting?
Private spaceflight
Saint Anselmo's Fire
Conservation
Where the wild things are
Dating earthquakes
Written in stone

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◆Books & Arts
Chinese capitalism
The long march backwards
The second world war
Victory designed by committee
Adolf Hitler
Know a man by his books
Defending America
The essential nation
British countryside
A happy return to manure
Saudi Arabia
Right royal
Contemporary sculpture
Serra firma


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◆Obituary
Paul Newman

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Perceptions of corruption
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global infrastructure firms