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

■Leaders
Silicon Valley and the technology industry
The new tech bubble
Britain's coalition government
Keep calm and carry on
Greece's debt crisis
Trichet the intransigent
The Afghan campaign
Single or quits
Fixing international banking
Unfinished business
The not-so-beautiful game
Offside

■Letters
On California and democracy, Greek debt, Japan, Canada's election, aphorisms, Turkey, syntactic bliss

■Briefing
Afghanistan
Glimmers of hope

■United States
The budget
The Blair House Project
The politics of the pump
A rhetorical blowout
Shale gas extraction
The need to be seen to be clean
New York's old people rebel
To the barricades for Medicare
The Republican nomination
The dance of the seven tweets
Health-care reform
The American exception
Concealed carry in Texas
Students v guns
Lexington
Save the fourth amendment

■The Americas
Education in Mexico
Schooling the whole family
Ecuador's constitutional referendum
A close count
Canada's environment
Boreal blues

■Asia
Pakistan after bin Laden
Humiliation of the military men
Pakistan and China
Sweet as can be?
Hunger in North Korea
Let them eat maize husks
Rethinking nuclear energy in Japan
Japan unplugged
Australia's finances
Tough love, or plain tough?
Investigating Kyrgyzstan's ethnic violence
Bloody business
Banyan
Low expectations

■Middle East & Africa
International justice in Africa
The International Criminal Court bares its teeth
Africa's growing middle class
Pleased to be bourgeois
The crisis in Syria
More stick than carrot
The new Tunisia
Bumpily ahead
Egypt's embattled Copts
Feeling ever more nervous
Corrections: Iranian politics and Palestinian reconciliation

■Europe
German foreign policy
The unadventurous eagle
French foreign policy
Sarkozy's wars
Belarus's crackdown
Show trials again
Defence spending in eastern Europe
Scars, scares and scarcity
Danish politics
To vote, or not to vote?
Women in Turkey
Behind the veil
Charlemagne
Decision time

■Britain
The first year of the coalition
The uncivil partnership
Elections in Northern Ireland and Wales
The double act continues
Scottish politics
Independence by stealth
Misbehaving banks
Protection money
The Glencore effect
The big dig
Privacy
The right to “no”
Miscarriages of justice
Degrees of innocence
Bagehot
Pride after a fall
Correction: Foot-and-mouth disease

■International
Group rights v individual rights
Me, myself and them
Human-rights abuses
Nothing new under the sun
Global road safety
Fighting road kill
Demography
...isn't destiny, one hopes

■A special report on international banking
Chained but untamed
Reregulation
A dangerous embrace
Don't sit on your hands
Capital
How much is enough?
Investment banks
Where angels fear to trade
Fantasy paypackets
Retail banks
In vogue
The problems of size
Survival of the fattest
Better be big
After the reforms
Safer, but not yet safe enough
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Multinational manufacturers
Moving back to America
Formula One
Revving up
Mexican cinemas in India
Once upon a time in the east
Water technology
Striking the stone
South Korean entrepreneurs
Young, gifted and blocked
Selling music companies
Siren song
Schumpeter
Rules for fools

■Briefing
Internet businesses
Another digital gold rush
Microsoft's gamble
A big phone bill

■Finance and Economics
Europe's debt saga
Every which way but solved
The Galleon trial
Guilty as charged
Hedge funds
Power and piñatas
Commodities markets (1)
A rocky patch
Buttonwood
Getting the story right
Commodities (2)
The price is wrong
Money-market funds
The long road back to boring
Economics focus
Ties that sometimes bind

■Science & Technology
Twins and motherhood
Thrice blessed
Teaching methods
An alternative vote
Solar power
The third way
The sixth sense of seals
Oh my ears and whiskers!

■Books & Arts
The lessons of philanthropy
Giving for results
World economic growth
When the poor catch up
The study of well-being
Strength in a smile
New poetry
Life in the shadow
Thrillers in North Korea
Pyongyang confidential
Antwerp's new museum
Tall tales

■Obituary
Sai Baba

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Taxation and earnings
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
World population