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

■Leaders
Barack Obama and the Republicans
A beatable president
Silvio Berlusconi’s record
The man who screwed an entire country
Yemen and the Arab awakening
Who’s next?
Greece’s debt crisis
Bail-out 2.0
Post-disaster politics
A grand stitch-up or an election?
IBM’s centenary
The test of time

■Letters
On the Anthropocene, North Sea oil, Australia, food safety

■Briefing
Japan’s recovery
Who needs leaders?

■United States
The Republican nomination
It’s showtime
The Fed, the budget and the economy
Policy fatigue
Austan Goolsbee
And another one gone
The war in Afghanistan
Home run?
Film-industry subsidies
Unilateral disarmament
Drug testing in Florida
Their tea-cup runneth over
Sexting and politics
The Weiner war
Lexington
Mitt, take two

■The Americas
Peru’s presidential run-off
Victory for the Andean chameleon
Murder in Brazil
Always with us
Brazil’s government
Exit Palocci
Canada’s cities
Poor relations

■Asia
China and opposition to dams
Choking on the Three Gorges
South Korea
Bulldozer shoved aside
Indian politics
The swami’s curse
Myanmar
Chinese takeaway kitchen
Cambodia
Courting the Khmer
Banyan
Not littorally Shangri-La

■Middle East & Africa
Yemen
Into the unknown
The Syrian uprising
The balance of power is shifting
Israel and diplomacy
Don’t think about September
Palestinian reconciliation
A long way to go
Botswana
Not so perfect after all

■Europe
Portugal’s election
A grim inheritance
Standards in French public life
After DSK
Germany’s media
Nostalgie de la boue
The Swedish economy
North star
Russia-EU relations
From cukes to nukes
Turkey’s bitter election
On the last lap
Charlemagne
It’s all Greek to them

■Britain
Counter-terrorism and multiculturalism
Better than cure―but difficult
Piccadilly Circus and globalisation
Bright lights, world city
Health-care reform
The climb-down
Labour and the City
Estranged, not divorced
Private universities
One very New College, at a price
English-language schools
Chattering classes
Bagehot
Curious George
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■International
IBM v Carnegie Corporation
The centenarians square up

■A special report on Italy
Oh for a new risorgimento
The economy
For ever espresso
Business
Renaissance men
Globalisation and immigration
Benvenuto, up to a point
Education
The ins and outs
Institutions
Tangled webs
Berlusconi’s legacy
The cavaliere and the cavallo
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Internet companies
Welcome to IPOville
Chinese manufacturers
The end of cheap goods?
Music and technology
Digitally remastered
The business of golf
Beyond Tiger
Schumpeter
Tutors to the world

■Briefing
IBM
1100100 and counting
Microsoft
Middle-aged blues

■Finance and Economics
Indian banks
The pendulum swings again
Buttonwood
Queasy feeling
America’s bail-out maths
Hard-nosed socialists
The OPEC meeting
Drill will
BP’s energy review
Bouncing back
Listed Chinese companies
Red alert
Honduras’s indebted economy
The cost of a coup
Economics focus
Pride or profit
Economics writers

■Science & Technology
Cancer therapy
Taking aim sooner
The Neolithic
Boom-time machine
Fundamental physics
Antimatter of fact
Military camouflage
That old razzle dazzle
The Grantham prize for reporting on the environment

■Books & Arts
The Venice Biennale
Art as a political game
Indian foreign policy
Hard questions
The politics of Conservatism
King of the c’s
George Best
Achilles heel
Botanic illustration
Flower child
The French and seduction
Smouldering
Correction: Among the Truthers

■Obituary
Jack Kevorkian

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Football
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Oil reserves