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

■Leaders
America's elections
The Republicans ride in
Silvio Berlusconi under pressure
A comedy that has gone on too long
Running the world economy
Finally, a talking-shop worth having
Smart systems
Living in a see-through world
Myanmar's elections
The junta takes one small step back

■Letters
On Colombia, Israel, libraries, smart-phones, water, stockmarkets, energy, gays, children, reluctance, spending cuts

■Briefing
Myanmar's election
Slowly, the army eases its grip
Myanmar's tribal conflicts
Excluded

■United States
The mid-terms
The latest thumping
The speaker
Passing the gavel
Barack Obama's response
That tin ear
Economic policy
Countdown
The governors' races
In the red
Ballot initiatives
Change we can do without
Lexington
And now on to the White House

■The Americas
Brazil's next president
Stepping into outsize shoes
Spying and corruption in Colombia
The dark side
Foreign investment in Canada
Not so fast

■Asia
Rocky relations between China and Japan
Bare anger
A Russo-Japanese tiff
Unsettling territory
Indian corruption
Scam-flat millionaires
Freedom of speech in Singapore
You can cage the singer
Indonesia's police
Cop killers
China's ten-yearly census
The world's biggest headcount
Banyan
Street life, street death

■Middle East & Africa
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Can Israel now say boo to America?
Elections in Jordan
Judging by turnout
Iraq's insurgency
Another spasm
Zimbabwe
Enough's enough―but what next?
Diplomacy over Western Sahara
Morocco v Algeria

■Europe
Italy's beleaguered prime minister
A step too far
Greece's economic troubles
Pasok and its discontents
France's rigid labour laws
Labour pains
Nordic politics
Love in a cold climate
Ukraine's government
Life under Yanukovich
Latvia's new government
And for my next trick
Charlemagne
A grim tale of judges and politicians

■Britain
The treatment of veterans
The unmourned
Homelessness
Cutting out the middle men
The Anglo-French defence pact
Divided we fall
The Murdochs and Sky
Patience, Rupert
Paying for higher education
The cap fits
Pop-ups
Up, up and away
Strikes and trade unions
Struck out
Bagehot
Terror and dissent

■International
Yemen's local and global terrorism
No quick fixes
A history of parcel bombs
Going postal
Air freight and counter-terrorism
Turbulence
Bomb-making for beginners
Bangers

■A special report on smart systems
It's a smart world
A sea of sensors
Making every drop count
Living on a platform
Augmented business
The IT paydirt
Your own private matrix
Sensors and sensibilities
Horror worlds
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Business and bureaucracy
Snipping off the shackles
Bihar's pro-business reforms
Paper tiger
Japanese bosses
From Walkman to hollow men
The defence industry
War on new fronts
Oracle v SAP
Maintaining fees
Face value: Martin Sorrell
King of the Mad Men
Schumpeter
The other elephant

■Briefing
The global monetary system
Beyond Bretton Woods 2

■Finance and Economics
The Fed's big announcement
Down the slipway
Pay at investment banks
Mutiny over the bounty
The yuan-dollar exchange rate
Nominally cheap or really dear?
Europe's new regulators
Continental shift
Buttonwood
Accentuate the negative
Ambac's fall
And then there was one
Microfinance in India
Discredited
Economics focus
Fail safe
Correction: Buttonwood

■Science & Technology
Geoengineering
Lift-off

■Books & Arts
The Ambani brothers
A durable yarn
Bringing history to life
Ages of imagination
The rise of Asia
At America's expense
Cancer
With hope, farewell fear
Giuseppe Eskenazi
Emporium of wonders

■Obituary
Viktor Chernomyrdin

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