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

■Leaders
Lessons from California
The perils of extreme democracy
Removing the Qaddafis
Crunch time in Libya
America's credit rating
Wakey, wakey
Africa and China
Rumble in the jungle
The euro area's debt crisis
Latin lessons
Lessons from Deepwater Horizon and Fukushima
In place of safety nets

■Letters
On Hungary's constitution, Paul Ryan, counter-insurgency, Berkshire Hathaway, Germany's Greens, the American south, religion, BP in Russia

■Briefing
France
Reforming gloomy France

■United States
Deepwater Horizon, one year later
The shores of recovery
Fishing on the Gulf coast
You've had a pleasant run
The credit-rating outlook
A warning shot
The economy
Revising downwards
Tackling recidivism
They all come home
The 2012 primaries
Thrusters v laggards
Lexington
Trump this

■The Americas
Cuba's communist congress
The start of a long, slow goodbye
Argentina's economy
Lies and Argentine statistics
Brazil's economy
Wild horses

■Asia
Japan
Silenced by gaman
Japan's energy crisis
What crisis?
India's vanishing Communists
Red and buried
Bangladesh
The Arab spring's chill winds
Singapore's general election
The men in white are always right
China's economy
Give us an A
China abroad
Bang a Gong
Banyan
The Hindu rate of self-deprecation

■Middle East & Africa
Libya's war
Can NATO save Misrata?
Syria's president
Ever more embattled
Morocco's monarchy
Reform or fall
Nigeria's presidential election
The real thing
South Africa
A ruling party at odds with itself
Côte d'Ivoire's new president
The king of Kong
The River Nile
A dam nuisance

■Europe
Russia and America
Resetting the stage
Germany's local finances
Hundreds of mini-Greeces
Croatia and Serbia
Protest days
Finland's election
A Suomi shake-up
Charlemagne
The trade war within

■Britain
Labour under Ed Miliband
In the red corner
Paying for higher education
Race to the top
House prices
Unfinished bust
The phone-hacking scandal
Clawing their way out of it
Music stores
Their master's voice
Bagehot
No more royal weddings

■International
Direct democracy
Vox populi or hoi polloi?
Charity and truthfulness
Storms and tea cups
Cyber-stalking
Creepy crawlies
Easter
A date with God

■A special report on democracy in California
The people's will
Direct democracy
Origin of the species
Proposition 13
War by initiative
Stateside and abroad
California's legislature
The withering branch
Education
A lesson in mediocrity
How voters decide
What do you know?
What next?
Burn the wagons
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Johnson & Johnson
Looking for a Band-Aid
Online gambling
Poker face off
Japan's disaster and business reform
A good place to start
Huawei
Interesting reading
Unpaid employment
Inferno for interns
The market in human eggs
Underpaid ovaries
Out-of-home advertising
Billboard boom
Schumpeter
The case against globaloney

■Briefing
The Chinese in Africa
Trying to pull together

■Finance and Economics
Singapore's financial rise
Going swimmingly
Buttonwood
The source of denial
American banks
Where's the growth?
India v China
The X factor
American farmland
Sowing bubbles
Piracy
Brigands seeking harbours
Indonesian microfinance
Rich pickings
Economics focus
A question of maturity

■Science & Technology
Religious studies
The good god guide
Social science
Wisdom about crowds
Bioremediation
Bottom feeders
Materials science
Cracking a problem

■Books & Arts
Deepwater Horizon
Writings from the black hole
Poverty
Untying the knot
Bicycling
A way of life
Russian literature
Patron saints of literary gloom
Early religious archaeology
An Easter enigma

■Obituary
Mike Campbell

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Income equality
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Gross external debt