■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Technology
The data deluge
Argentina and the Falklands
The beef in Buenos Aires
Japan's frustrating politics
Nagasaki fallout
India
Ending the red terror
Genetically modified food
Attack of the really quite likeable tomatoes

■Letters
On Spain, al-Qaeda, Yemen, torture, Britain, juries, stereotypes, Benjamin Disraeli

■Briefing
Argentina under the Kirchners
Socialism for foes, capitalism for friends
The first family's businesses
Welcome to the Hotel Kirchner

■United States
Health reform
Seizing the reins, at long last
Mitt Romney and the Republicans
Fired up, ready to go
The administration's economists
Grading the dismal scientists
The economy
Back to the crash
Arkansas politics
Democrats beware
Schools and testing
The finger of suspicion
California's prison-guards' union
Fading are the peacemakers
America's children
Protecting the weakest
Lexington
Is Barack Obama tough enough?

■The Americas
Corruption in Brazil
The money trail
Presidential ambitions in Peru
Political satire
Latin American summitry
In ever-closer union, divided we stand
Canada's Mohawks
Get out of our canoe

■Asia
Tackling Japan's bureaucracy
Floundering in the foggy fortress
India's Naxalite insurgency
Not a dinner party
Western aims in Afghanistan
Played for fools
Migrant workers in Thailand
Inhospitality
China's National People's Congress
Democracy in action
Animal welfare in China
Off the menu
Banyan
The mother of all dictatorships
Clarification: Maratha

■Middle East & Africa
Israel's controversial intelligence service
Does Mossad really make Israel safer?
Israeli spies in Lebanon
Not such a success
Senegal's politics
Statuesque or grotesque?
South Africa's economy
Steady as she goes
Somalia's civil war
Jihadists on the march
Niger's coup
It seems popular, so far
Nigeria's president
A sudden return
Correction: Najib Balala
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■Europe
Ukraine's new president
Yanukovich's mixed blessing
Germany's fractious government
Westerwelle's woes
Latvia and Greece
Baltic thaw, Aegean freeze
Turkey's coup plotters
Lies and whispers
The Dutch government falls
Wild things
France's Socialist Party
Fresh troubles
Charlemagne
Europe's bear problem

■Britain
Britain’s prime minister
Hero, villain or victim of the global age?
The Conservatives' mini-malaise
Tory blues
Media and the law
Publish, perish, protest
Pensions and tax
If it says ARF, then it's a dog [Britain only]
Assisted suicide
The latest chapter [Britain only]
Construction jitters
Survival tactics [Britain only]
Bagehot
All too human
Internship

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■International
Sanctions on Iran
And the price of nuclear power?
A poll on trust
What's good for General Motors

■A special report on managing information
Data, data everywhere
All too much
A different game
Clicking for gold
The open society
Show me
Needle in a haystack
New rules for big data
Handling the cornucopia
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Recruitment firms
Joining the queue
The spread of GM crops
Taking root
The boom in printing on demand
Just press print
Hype about fuel cells
Flower power
A boardroom row at Repsol
Adding fuel
Toyota's overstretched supply chain
The machine that ran too hot
Schumpeter
The emperor's clothes

■Briefing
Reviving Royal Bank of Scotland
Scots on the rocks

■Finance and Economics
The balance of economic power
East or famine
Emerging-market sovereign debt
Risk redefined
Secondary buy-outs
Circular logic
Interest-rate risk
Surf's up
Buttonwood
The very long view
Chinese banks
Hole sale
Short-selling rules
Shackling the scapegoats
Economics focus
Low definition
Correction: Financial risk

■Science & Technology
Climate and combustion
Fired up
How siestas help memory
Sleepy heads
Looking for ET
Signs of life
Nuclear forensics
A weighty matter

■Books & Arts
China's roads
A voyage of discovery
How East Timor became Timor-Leste
A country's agonising birth
New York low life
Bottoms up
University education in America
Professionalising the professor
A biography of Arthur Koestler
Intellectual fireworks
A Japanese silversmith
Making waves
Old men of the theatre
The two Peters

■Obituary
Alexander Haig

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
FDIC-insured “problem” institutions
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Wall Street bonuses