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

■Leaders
Globalisation
The redistribution of hope
Government debt
Behold 2011, the year of sovereign shocks
The Cancún climate-change conference
A sort of progress
WikiLeaks, protest and the law
The rights and wrongs of hacktivism
Putinisation in eastern Europe
The tasks undone

■Letters
On America and Europe, WikiLeaks, GM crops, students, Sarah Palin, happiness, the number 11

■United States
Long-term unemployment
In the bleak midwinter
Health reform
Terminal or curable?
The war in Afghanistan
Still pouring
Lexington
Barack Houdini Obama

■The Americas
Immigration in Canada
A smaller welcome mat
El Salvador's president
So far, so good
Mexico's drug war
Falling kingpins, rising violence

■Asia
India and China
Pushing back
China's civil service
Aspiring mandarins
War crimes in Bangladesh
Answering for history
Karachi's ethnic feuds
Mob battles
Boat people in Australia
Asylum or death?
Banyan
Great disorder under heaven

■Middle East & Africa
Somalia's insurgency
Sending the boys home
The media in southern Africa
U-turn on the long walk to freedom
Iran's foreign minister
Thank you and goodbye
Driving in Iraq
Still hazardous

■Europe
Silvio Berlusconi survives
Clinging on
Hungarian politics
Hungry for power
Terrorism in Sweden
A close shave
Christopher Cviic
Best of the Balkans
Kosovo's future
Organs of state
Montenegro and the European Union
Another Balkan candidate

■Britain
Reshaping local government
Careful what you wish for
Extremism in Luton
What went wrong
Rising unemployment and inflation
Bah humbug!
Cake and culture
Season's eatings
Bagehot
Christmas with Father Whip

■International
Climate-change diplomacy
Back from the brink
Extradition and WikiLeaks
Courting trouble
The Stuxnet worm
Yet to turn

■Christmas Specials
Age and happiness
The U-bend of life
Comparing countries
The rich, the poor and Bulgaria
Public houses
Time, gentlemen
The battle of Towton
Nasty, brutish and not that short
Chinese tourists
A new Grand Tour
Microcars
The marvellous Magyar microcars
Migrant farm workers
Fields of tears
Barbecue and American culture
Fire in the hole
Nollywood
Lights, camera, Africa
India's languishing countryside
A village in a million
Remembering the Boxer Uprising
A righteous fist
Babur, the first Moghul emperor
Wine and tulips in Kabul
The tyranny of choice
You choose
Public relations
Rise of the image men
Men's clothing
Suitably dressed
The history of manuscripts
Illuminating a dark age
The history of manuscripts
Codices decoded
Doctoral degrees
The disposable academic
Ascension Island
Another green world

■Business
Italian television
The glory of Berlusconi
Internet start-ups
Another bubble?
Rio Tinto and China
Digging with the dragon
Corporate law
Offshoring your lawyer
Schumpeter
Why do firms exist?
Corrections

■Finance and Economics
Lessons from Iceland
Coming in from the cold
Buttonwood
Squaring the triangle
The world's biggest economy
Dating game
The Madoff fraud
An affair to remember
Economics focus
Exploding misconceptions

■Science & Technology
Monitoring forests
Seeing the world for the trees
Peat bogs and climate change
Wet, wet, wet
Culturomics
Reading by numbers
Volcanic eruptions
Guided by the lightning

■Books & Arts
The future of English
English as she was spoke
A man and his mistress
Fancy women have their say
American finance
Borrowed time
Neapolitan banking history
Ducats for Caravaggio
Pakistani art
Breath of violence

■Obituary
Richard Holbrooke

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