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

■Leaders
Illiberal politics
America's unjust sex laws
Redesigning Europe's biggest economy
Unbalanced Germany
Britain's energy crisis
How long till the lights go out?
Regulating executive compensation
Pay and politics
Generic drugs and competition
Something rotten
Islam and heresy
Where freedom is still at stake

■Letters
On economics, gambling, Ecuador and Colombia, American politics

■Briefing
Sex laws
Unjust and ineffective

■United States
Signs of economic cheer
The sun also rises
The growth of home-schooling
Kitchen-classroom conservatives
Coney Island's redevelopment
On and off the boardwalk
California's universities in trouble
Before the fall
Regulating cannabis in California
Puff, puff, pay
Lexington
A lucky hawk so far

■The Americas
Cuba's penurious revolution
When two plus two equals three
Colombia and its neighbours
Bazookas and bases
Venezuela's media crackdown
Switched off
The North American summit
Reluctant partners
Argentina's meaty diet
Bife de lomo, or bean sprouts?

■Asia
Sri Lanka after the war
Behind the Rajapaksa brothers' smiles
Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il
Bill and Kim's excellent adventure
Pakistan's constitutional troubles
Generals and judges
Taiwan and China
Reunification by trade?
Trial by jury in Japan
Hanging in the balance
Banyan
India's hamstrung visionary

■Middle East & Africa
Iran's enduring turmoil
It's far from over
A Palestinian congress
Fatah searches for renewal
Iraq and America
We don't need you any more
Sudan's dress-code row
A martyr to her trousers
Botswana's Bushmen
Stop that hunting

■Europe
Germany's political fragmentation
People's parties without the people
Basque terrorism
Dying spasms
Moldova's elections
In the balance
Aftermath of conflict in Georgia
The pawns of war
Danish greenery
Body heat
Charlemagne
Milky mess
Vacancy: Online editor
Correction: Slovakia

■Britain
The looming electricity crunch
Dark days ahead
Britain, America and extradition
Trial of an alien
Tory parliamentary candidates
Still true blue [Britain only]
Women and the financial crisis
Of bankers and bankeresses [Britain only]
Rebuilding the banks
Falling short [Britain only]
Britons airborne
Damp squib [Britain only]

[Britain only] Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist

■International
Egypt and global Islam
The battle for a religion's heart
A bold Muslim voice
From harsh terrain
The trouble with nuclear fuel
Struggling to hold up a bank

■Business
Big drug firms embrace generics
Friends for life
Uganda's oil rush
Derricks in the darkness
Regulating executive pay in America
Knotting the purse-strings
The SEC fines GE
Magic numbers
MediaTek and mobile-phone chips
Fabless and fearless
India's struggling airlines
Flight to value
Germany's flawed corporate governance
Boards behaving badly
Face value
A question of trust

■Finance and Economics
Offshore private banking
Bourne to survive
Buttonwood
Short of ideas
Bank of America
Heirs and cases
Measuring growth from outer space
Light relief
Reforming finance: Derivatives
Naked fear
China's provincial GDP numbers
Sea change
Rebalancing the world economy: Germany
The lives of others
Economics focus
In defence of the dismal science

■Science & Technology
A link between wealth and breeding
The best of all possible worlds?
The origin of malaria
As Dr Livingstone presumed
Rainforest
Burning issues
Fossil arachnids
Spidery images

■Books & Arts
Amartya Sen on justice
How to do it better
The California dream
How it was back then
The creation of Facebook
Friends and foes
British bluestockings
Learned and ingenious ladies
Political rebels in England
The road to insurrection
A very British thriller
Freedom song

■Obituary
Corazon Aquino

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Manufacturing activity