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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
Our weekly editorial cartoon
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◆Leaders
The world economy
Capitalism at bay
Russia and Europe
Too soon to kiss and make up
Afghanistan
No time to go wobbly
Zimbabwe
A need to knock heads together
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◆Letters
On health care, deposit insurance, drugs,
consulting, space, Wall Street
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◆Briefing
The Caucasus
After the war
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◆United States
Health care
In need of desperate remedies
The candidates and the economy
A plethora of plans
Presidential debates
The last word
Campaign advertising
Full of sound and fury
Fact-checking
Fire-fighters for pants
ACORN
Mickey Mouse for Obama?
Swing states: Iowa
Reaping what you sow
Lexington
John McCain's last chance
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◆The Americas
Canada's general election
The Conservatives by a bigger head
Latin America's economies
Bad bets
Peru's unloved president
Pursued by the ghosts of the past
The Caribbean
Trade winds
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◆Asia
Asia and the crisis
Here we go again
North Korea
Terror off track
Land reform in China
Promises, promises
Thailand
Fuelling the pyre
Afghanistan
A surge of pessimism
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◆Middle East & Africa
Israel
Settlers against a settlement
Congo and Rwanda
Old foes, new threats
Mauritius
Beyond beaches and palm trees
Nigeria
History on horseback
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◆Europe
Europe and the financial crisis
The end of the beginning?
Russia and the crisis
Kremlinomics
Turkey and the Kurds
Terror in the mountains
German education
Bottom of the form
Italian education
Schools out
Charlemagne
Bad times ahead
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◆Britain
Public finances
Counting the cost
Scottish banks
Political dividends
School examinations
Tested, and found wanting
Detention without charge
Down but not out
The database state
A solution in search of a problem
Bagehot
The riddle of Gordon Brown
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◆International
Biodiversity
Fewer creatures great and small
Religious diversity
Mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs
Islam and Christianity
Not merely academic

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◆Business
Industry and the financial crisis
Meanwhile, in the real economy...
GM and Chrysler
Follow the money
European retailing
Shopped around
ZTE
Silent mode
Yahoo!
Boo hoo!
Logistics in Africa
Network effects
Telecoms
Satellites? Are they nuts?
Face value
Hip-hope
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◆Briefing
A short history of modern finance
Link by link
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◆Finance and economics
Rescuing the banks
But will it work?
The American economy
A spent force
Wall Street, the sequel
Greed is gone
The legacy of depression
L-shaped poverty lines
Buttonwood
The big bear
Sources of capital
Once bitten, twice shy
Cross-border banking
Divided we stand
Trust
The faith that moves Mammon
Economics focus
Bold strokes
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◆Science & Technology
Drug addiction
Treatment on a plate
Electronics
Looks good on paper
Domestication
Not so dumb animals
DNA sequencing
The hole story
Correction: mobile phones
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◆Books & Arts
Warren Buffett
A sage that knows his onions
A cultural history of debt
Payback
The American rifle
Sons of a gun
The Spanish civil war
A call to arms
The birth of blues
Deep roots
Milan Kundera
The unbearable weight of history
Portraits from the Renaissance
Head and heart
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◆Obituary
Jörg Haider
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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Australia
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global fishing