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

■Leaders
Japan's hydra-headed disaster
The fallout
Intervention in the Arab awakening
No illusions
The ever-growing state
Taming Leviathan
Europe's far right
Pause and engage
Britain's budget
Osborne's chance
Hollywood's disc problem
Video nasty

■Letters
On farming and the future of food, high-speed rail in Britain, Egypt, China

■Briefing
Japan's catastrophes
Nature strikes back
Plate tectonics
Faulty thinking
Japan's nuclear industry
The risks exposed

■United States
Health care
A not very happy birthday
The budget
The sixth fudge
Education policy
Final exam
Triangle Shirtwaist
The birth of the New Deal
Florida's budget
Austerity parade
Nuclear waste
From bombs to $800 handbags
Lexington
The courage factor

■The Americas
The United States and Latin America
Flying down to Rio
Rebuilding Haiti
The long, hard haul
Life in rural Haiti
Goodbye, world

■Asia
China
Don't worry, be happy
Pakistan
Money is thicker than blood
Sri Lanka
The son also rises
Indonesia
Power to the people! No, wait ...
Banyan
Japan and the uses of adversity

■Middle East & Africa
Libya's uprising
The colonel charges ahead
Bahrain's crisis
Calling in the big guns
Yemen's demonstrations
Yet more cracking down
The Arab press
Read all about it
Fighting in Côte d'Ivoire
Shifting lines
Corruption in Sierra Leone
Rich pickings

■Europe
France's far right
They can't keep her down
The far right in northern Europe
On the march
Russia's regional elections
Attack of the clones
Italy at 150
Happy-ish birthday
Charlemagne
Tax torment

■Britain
The inscrutable chancellor
The Osborne identity
Anglo-American-Israeli diplomacy
All the president's messengers
Our pre-budget opinion poll
More haste, fewer votes
Libel-law reform
The price of truth
Public-sector pay
The cap doesn't fit
Britain's new Olympic sports
New balls, please
Bagehot
The Lib Dems wobble

■International
Failed states
Where life is cheap and talk is loose

■A special report on the future of the state
Taming Leviathan
California reelin'
Enemies of progress
Go East, young bureaucrat
Favelous
A work in progress
The gods that have failed—so far
Patient, heal thyself
Big society
Seize the moment
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Patent reform
The spluttering invention machine
Mexico's communications monopolies
Amigos no longer
Online-coupon firms
Groupon anxiety
Sports newspapers
Pink, and read all over
Online privacy
Stopped in their tracks
Greek business nightmares
Cursed are the cheesemakers
Apology: Larry Summers

■Briefing
Hollywood and home entertainment
Unkind unwind

■Finance and Economics
Financial markets
Aftershocks
Reinsurance after Japan's quake
When nature attacks
The euro-debt crisis
Muddle, fuddle, toil and trouble
Data-driven finance
Go figure
Buttonwood
The old Bill
China's economy
Decelerating
Economics focus
The cost of calamity
Marjorie Deane internship
Correction: House-price table

■Science & Technology
Unorthodox links to the internet
Signalling dissent
Blood transfusion
Painted out
Planetary exploration
Mercury rising
Climate change and crop yields
One degree over

■Books & Arts
Imperial Chinese porcelain
Meiyintang marvels
Jerusalem
City on the hill
Computer games
Super Mario management
New fiction from Sudan
Desert rose
The history of transfusion
Bloody victory
Stories from Croatia
Animal farm

■Obituary
Simon van der Meer

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