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

■Leaders
The Berlin Wall
So much gained, so much to lose
The war in Afghanistan
Last chance in Kabul
Europe's leadership
After Lisbon
Barack Obama and the “mini mid-terms”
The change he didn't seek
Restructuring banks
The living dead
Battling joblessness
Has Europe got the answer?

■Letters
On the war in Afghanistan, China, bankers' bonuses, mobile phones, work, nannies, taxes

■Briefing
The world after 1989
Walls in the mind
Berlin re-united
Not quite grown up
Mikhail Gorbachev and the fall of the wall
The man who trusted his eyes
After the Soviet collapse
A globe redrawn
China's reaction to Communism's collapse
Keep calm and carry on
■United States
Elections in New Jersey and Virginia
Lessons from a double defeat
Mayoral races
Money can't buy you love
Health reform
Now or never?
The HIV travel ban is lifted
You're welcome
Hispanic higher education
Closing the gap
Arizona's budget
Stumped
Lexington
Republicans, riven but resurgent

■The Americas
Honduras's political conflict
Zelaya's scrap of paper
Rebuilding Haiti
A step backward
Venezuela's energy shortage
Losing power
Chile's Mapuches
The people and the land

■Asia
Afghanistan's “re-elected” president
Karzai's tattered victory
Politics and the war in Sri Lanka
To which victor the spoils?
Bangladesh and Myanmar
Fenced in
Financial scandals in Thailand
Getting their man
Indonesia's anti-corruption commission
The gecko bites back
India's wretched state of Manipur
Not free to starve
Banyan
Having it both ways

■Middle East & Africa
The flagging peace process
Is Israel too strong for Barack Obama?
Iraq's coming election
The region's liveliest system
Baghdad's Green Zone goes dry
Stop that naughty Western habit
Saudis and Yemenis versus jihadists
A bloody border
Protests in Iran
Green November
Guinea's strife
Don't let it be contagious

■Europe
Eastern Europe's economic woes
Down in the dumps
The euro-area economy
Recovery, of sorts
Russia and Britain
Frozen diplomacy
The Chirac trial
Liberty, equality, no impunity
Italy and the CIA
Conviction time
Charlemagne
Blair's unbalancing act

■Britain
New banking measures
Chipped, not broken
Reforming parliamentary expenses
The never-ending story
Drugs policy
Blinded by science
Dating in the downturn
Well met by clublight
School places
Admissions of guilt [Britain only]
Teaching at universities
A sense of entitlement [Britain only]
Policing Northern Ireland
New cop in town [Britain only]
Bagehot
Plan B
Clarification: Home schooling

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

■International
Climate change and public opinion
(Not yet) marching as to war
Religion and climate change
Sounding the trumpet

■Business
America's carmakers make a comeback
Rinsed and raring to go
Foreign investors in Hungary
Less welcome
Berkshire Hathaway buys BNSF
Express from Omaha
Gift certificates get a makeover
The gift that gives back
Video games move online
A giant sucking sound
Schumpeter
Food fight

■Briefing
Japan's technology champions
Invisible but indispensable

■Finance and Economics
Europe's troubled banks
The muscles from Brussels
Contingent capital
CoCo nuts
Hong Kong's property market
Flat out
Buttonwood
Exit, followed by a bear
Failed financial firms
The bust that worked
Monetary policy
Leaders and laggards
Rural job guarantees
Faring well
India's gold purchase
Adornment and investment
Economics focus
Pay for delay
Award: Philip Coggan
Correction: Wouter Bos

■Science & Technology
Agriculture and satellites
Harvest moon
The horse genome
Riding high
Nanobiotechnology
Seeding the seeds
Climate change
For peat's sake, stop

■Books & Arts
The fall of Communism
Wall stories
Arlington cemetery
Hope eternal
Suburbs
Invincible green lawns
France and England in the 16th century
The tale of two families
Knut Hamsun
Terrible man, celebrated writer
Bridget Riley
Livid lines

■Obituary
Alan Peters

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