■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
British politics
Britain's accidental revolution
The euro and the future of Europe
No going back
Hugo Chávez's government
The wrecking of Venezuela
Banks in emerging markets
The winners' dilemma
Banning the burqa
A bad idea...
Barack Obama's rant against technology
Don't shoot the messenger

■Letters
On Britain's election, Israel and Palestine, epilepsy, whaling, honesty, New York, city living, extraterrestrials

■Briefing
Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
Feeling the heat

■United States
The Supreme Court
Cracking the Kagan code
America and Afghanistan
Hug them tight
The climate-change bill
Once more unto the breach
Deepwater Horizon
Still spilling
Utah's primary
Tea-party on
Jobs and businesses
The perils of being small
Schools and religion
God and times tables
Lexington
In praise of Boise

■The Americas
Argentina's ruling couple
Lame ducks no longer
The EU-Latin America summit
Plus ça change
Guerrillas in Paraguay
The “people's army” under siege

■Asia
The Philippines' next president
Some mother's son
Thailand's north-east
Thaksin's harvest
Malaysia's opposition leader on trial
Sodomy, the sequel
Australia's economy
In ruddy health
The carnage in China's schools
Lone madmen without guns
Japanese immigration policy
A nation's bouncers
Kyrgyzstan's interim government
Troubled transition
Banyan
The elusive fruits of inclusive growth

■Middle East & Africa
Nigeria's new president
Stop-gap or long-term leader?
South Africa's World Cup
Who profits most?
Al-Qaeda in west Africa
Desert menace
Israel and Palestine
An inevitably edgy start
Salafists in Gaza
The real thing
Egypt's culture wars
The puritans won't give up

■Europe
Angela Merkel's chancellorship
Now what?
North Rhine-Westphalia's election
Grand, traffic-light or red-red-green?
Turkey's opposition
Sex, lies and video
The Baltic states
Euro not bust
Ireland's economy
At least it's not Greece
Italian politics
Centrifugal forces
Charlemagne
Financial fortress Europe

■Britain
The new coalition government
A not very odd couple
Lessons from abroad
Learning how to share
Political reform
Sprucing up democracy
Labour's future
Emerging from the shadow
Electoral trends
Why Cameron coalesced [Britain only]
Financial regulation
Good news, for hobbits [Britain only]
The Tube upgrade deals
Finis [Britain only]
Bagehot
The love-in

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■International
Women and veils
Running for cover
Headgear in Muslim lands
Beyond the burqa

■A special report on banking in emerging markets
They might be giants
The bigger and bigger picture
Rambo in cuffs
Domestic duties
Mutually assured existence
We lucky few
Breaking and entering
Old friends only
All the world's a stage
A door to Africa
Cross your fingers
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Work in the digital age
A clouded future
Rewarding American bosses
Nay on pay
State aid proliferates in Europe
Hands up for handouts
China's electric-bicycle boom
Pedals of fire
SAP attempts a comeback
Short-term memory gain
Health insurance in America
Relapse
India's oil and gas industry
Blowout
Correction: Hollywood studios

■Briefing
The euro
Emergency repairs

■Finance and Economics
Financial markets
Doing the hokey-cokey
America's stockmarket plunge
A few minutes of mayhem
Asian IPOs
High hopes, low returns
Credit-rating agencies
The other vampires
The Senate financial-reform bill
Maul street
Subprime borrowing and innumeracy
The fear of all sums
The IMF and the euro-zone rescue
High stakes
Economics focus
From ships to bits

■Science & Technology
Optical computing's bright future
Light without logic
Spotting video piracy
To catch a thief
Unusual fossils
Wonderful life goes on
Epidemiology
Infectious personalities

■Books & Arts
Innovation in history
Getting better all the time
New fiction
Inky fingers
Iran in the 20th century
Fall guy
Global universities
An old idea refashioned
Britain and the second world war
Boys in blue
New opera
A monkey out of Macbeth

■Obituary
Avigdor Arikha

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Taxing wages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
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