The shaming of America
Sep 10th 2005

The dreadful aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has exposed personal and structural
failings in America's government, and eroded respect for the country around
the world ...

The world this week

Politics this week

Business this week


Letters

On jihadists, textiles, petrol prices, Malaysia, goats, Viking swear words


Leaders

Hurricane Katrina

What Peter Mandelson did wrong

The oil-for-food fiasco

Lessons from Egypt

European v American universities


Special Report

The fallout from Hurricane Katrina

The future of New Orleans

Katrina and oil prices

The United Nations


Britain

Flat income tax

The newspaper business

Segregation

Age and education

Fuel prices

Rules for electing Tory leaders

Corporate killing

The Tory leadership contest


Europe

France braced for change

Germany's election

Antonio Fazio proves hard to unseat

Ukraine's revolution loses steam

Religion in the Balkans

Europe's non-crisis


United States

The Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court

Progress at the World Trade Centre site

The state of California's farm workers


The Americas

Canada's booming west

Mexico's so-so president

Canada and the United States


Middle East & Africa

Egypt's flawed but mould-breaking presidential election

A top Palestinian is assassinated

Iran and nuclear diplomacy

Zimbabwe's dictator breathes again

Uganda's war against condoms


Asia

Japan's election

High-level talks on Kashmir

A ceasefire in Nepal

Asian textiles

Chinese taxes

Impeachment fails in the Philippines

Democracy in China

A survey of higher education

The brains business

Secrets of success

Head in the clouds

A world of opportunity

Wandering scholars

Higher Ed Inc

The best is yet to come

Acknowledgments and sources

Offer to readers


Business

Management consultants

Disneyland hits Hong Kong

Oil firms under pressure over human rights

A modern company in a traditional sport

The market for mobile television

Labour shortages for India's out-sourcers

Europe's power industry consolidates

Dolly Lenz, New York's real-estate queen


Special Report

The global car industry


Finance and Economics

The UN's Millennium Development Goals

Japan's reviving banks

Our house-price indices

A Swiss private bank bulks up

Hedge funds: a cautionary tale

Private equity in India

The dollar and bond yields


Science and Technology

The future of the Global Fund

More drugs for poor countries

The real impact of Chernobyl

Genes, brains and evolution


Books and Arts

American wine

America's constitution

Medieval England

The film beats the book

Black, fat and feisty

Shakespeare in Kabul


Obituary

William Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States


Economic and Financial Indicators

Overview

Output, demand and jobs

Prices and wages

Economic forecasts

Money and interest rates

The Economist commodity price index

Stockmarkets

Trade, exchange rates and budgets

Stockmarkets


Emerging-Market Indicators

Overview

Economic freedom

Economy

Financial markets