■The world this year
The world this year
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
The world economy
The Great Stabilisation
Greece and the euro
Athenian dances
Democracy in China
Control freaks
London as a financial centre
The real windfall
Chile's presidential election
Small earthquake hurts centre-left

■Letters
On Honduras, Switzerland, food, class politics, Mike Huckabee, words, Belgium

■United States
Direct democracy
The tyranny of the majority
America's foreign policy
Is there an Obama doctrine?
The Guantánamo detainees
Ready and willing
Houston's new mayor
Leading lady
Lexington
Bah, humbug

■The Americas
Chile's presidential election
Piñera flies the flag
Canada's criminal-justice policy
Prisoners of politics
Security in Colombia
Calling freedom

■Asia
Democracy, China and the Communist Party
Big surprise
Indian states
Divide but not rule?
Kazakhstan and the OSCE
The sultan takes over
Japan and China
The shogun and the emperor
Banyan
Currency contortions

■Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe's unity government
Still adored
Sudanese politics
Heading towards independence
Mohamed ElBaradei
From fission to Pharaoh?
Iran's nuclear programme
A thousand and one excuses
A legal spat between Israel and Britain
Welcome to London

■Europe
Greece's budget crisis
Papandreou tries to prop up the pillars
Ukraine's predicament
Oranges are not the only fruit
Turkey and the Kurds
Hopes blown away
Silvio Berlusconi under attack
A prime minister struck
France's school curriculum
La fin de l'histoire
Charlemagne
Too many cooks

■Britain
British Airways
Falling star
Defence spending
The war bill comes due
Science spending
No more booms, just bust
18th-century pornography
Vintage voyeurism
Bagehot
Heroes of New Labour

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■International
Religious freedom
Too many chains
Climate change and forests
Touch wood

■Christmas Specials
The idea of progress
Onwards and upwards
A tragedy
Gordon Rex
Farewell to WW1
From memory to history
Violin-making
Older and richer
From tree to concert hall
The sweet sound of nightingales
Filth
The joy of dirt
Going to America
A Ponzi scheme that works
Detroit's emptiness
The art of abandonment
Socrates in America
Arguing to death
Being foreign
The others
Would-be migrants
Greener grass
The Holy Land
Where piety meets power
Rice in Japan
You are what you eat
The Amur River
The Amur's siren song
Politeness
Hi there
Harry Potter
The Harry Potter economy
Claret and London
Hedonism and claret
Difficult languages
Tongue twisters
Newspapers and technology
Network effects

■Business
Tax reform in India
Trickle through
Technology firms and antitrust
Here we go again
Spain's El Gordo lottery
Gamblers united
Exxon Mobil buys XTO Energy
Unconventional
Maiden flights for Boeing and Airbus
Upwards and onwards
Schumpeter
The silence of Mammon

■Finance and Economics
Dubai's debt cliffhanger
A second life
Financial centres
Foul-weather friends
Switzerland as a financial centre
Alpine ambitions
America's megabanks
Goodbye, or see you again?
Economics focus
Paul Samuelson

■Science & Technology
Marine archaeology
Davy Jones's lock-up
Reproductive biology
Girls on top
HIV microbicides
Dashed hopes
The search for dark matter
An early Christmas present?

■Books & Arts
An evolutionary biologist on religion
Spirit level
Foreign aid
Trap or treat
Human identity
An elusive illusion
Zombie films
Invasion of the living dead

■Obituary
Yegor Gaidar

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
World GDP
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Foreign students in America