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◆On the cover
The bill that could break up Europe
If eastern Europe goes down, it may take the European Union with it:




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


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◆Leaders
Eastern Europe's woes
The bill that could break up Europe
The White House and America's banks
In knots over nationalisation
Investor relations
To forecast or not to forecast?
China and Tibet
Another year of the Iron Fist
The waste industry
A load of rubbish


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◆Letters
On Abraham Lincoln, Argentina, Rio Tinto, savings, the stimulus package, subprime lending, environmentalism


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◆Special Report
Ex-communist economies
The whiff of contagion
A glimpse of optimism
Green shoots


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◆United States
The government's finances
Brave rhetoric, grim reality
Voting rights for Washington, DC
A constitutional conundrum
Affirmative action
Erasing race
Age and Californian cities
Gilded age
Judicial independence
Only in America
Bad judges
The lowest of the low
Victory gardens
Digging their way out of recession
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Take heart
Lexington
Californication


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◆The Americas
The Brazilian Amazon
Preventing pillage in the rainforest
Quebec
Fighting old battles
Colombia
Spies in trouble
The Stanford affair
An $8 billion scandal goes a long way
Correction: Brazil


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◆Asia
China and Tibet
Not much of a celebration
China and the Dalai Lama
Politically incorrect tourism
The yakuza
Feeling the heat
Cambodia's oil resources
Blessing or curse?
Bangladesh's economy
No hiding place
Bangladesh's military
Mutiny in Bangladesh
Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka
Stoking the flames
Pakistan's politics
Just like the bad old days


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◆Middle East & Africa
Somalia's civil war
Just a glimmer of hope
Somalia's demography
Little-known, dispersed and dying
South Africa
Bishop's move
Senegal
Trouble at home
Shias in the Gulf
Grumbling and rumbling
Israel's would-be government
The right has the first shot


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◆Europe
Germany
Europe's reluctant paymaster
Protests in France
Allons, enfants!
Protests in Ireland
In a stew
A spy scandal in Estonia
How many more?
Albanian politics
Time for a change?
Charlemagne
Europe's family squabbles


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◆Britain
Britain and its Muslims
How the government lost the plot
Freedom of information
For their eyes only
Bank rescues
When will we see your like again?


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◆International
Proliferation
United in defiance
The World Bank
Guilty as charged

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◆Business
Talking rubbish
You are what you throw away
Down in the dumps
A better hole
The appliance of science
Round and round it goes
Muck and brass
Less is more
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Special Report
Corporate planning
Managing in the fog
Prediction markets
An uncertain future
European energy
Power games
Telecoms in India
The hesitant auctioneer
Software in the recession
Out on its own
News Corporation
Home alone
Google in Asia
Seeking success
Face value
A teacher for the times


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◆Finance & Economics
American banks
A ghoulish prospect
Bank capital
Stress-test mess


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◆Science & Technology
Public order
The kindness of crowds
Social networks
Primates on Facebook
Greenhouse gases
OCOck up
Psychology
Sunny side up
Homo erectus
A footprint in the sands of time


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◆Books & Arts
Corruption in Kenya
How to ruin a country
The end of the cold war
Reagan's rebellion
The life of Flannery O’Connor
All beak and claws
American canal building
Waterway triumphs
Social inequality
Always with us?
Krishna exhibition
Seduced by a flute


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◆Obituary
Christopher Nolan

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Metals
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Junk bonds