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

■Leaders
The future of news
Back to the coffee house
Britain’s phone-hacking scandal
Street of shame
America’s debt
Shame on them
Debt reduction
Handle with care
Thailand’s election
A precious chance
Aircraft and emissions
Clean-air turbulence

■Letters
On charter schools, the IPCC, fracking, online betting, police commissioners, Greece

■Briefing
Thailand’s election
A surprising new face
Yingluck Shinawatra
Sister act

■United States
Shutdown in Minnesota
A sign of things to come?
Immigration
A warmer welcome in a colder state
The federal debt
Countdown
Basketball on strike
Second down
Public-sector pensions
Blood on the table, money in the bank
Californian freeways
Carmageddon
Gay rights in the South
Still far behind
Food deserts
If you build it, they may not come
Lexington
Fat cats and corporate jets

■The Americas
Politics in Venezuela
The Bolivarian patient
Cuba and Venezuela
If Hugo goes
Security in Colombia
Never-ending
Competition policy in Brazil
Too little, too late

■Asia
Gujarat’s economy
India’s Guangdong
The Philippine economy
The untouchables
Non-profit organisations in Japan
Charity at home
Cricket in Sri Lanka
More than just a game
Protest in Hong Kong
Monsoon of their discontent
Taiwan
Diplomatic slush
Indonesian schools
More cheating, or else!

■Middle East & Africa
Sudan’s separation
Their day in the sun
Doing business in South Sudan
Ready, steady, invest
Hunger in the Horn of Africa
Once more unto the abyss
Côte d’Ivoire’s recovery
Back in business
Syrian rebellion
Sledge Hama
Morocco’s referendum
A very small step
Bahrain’s crisis
Shoot first, then talk

■Europe
France and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
He can’t hide, but can he run?
America’s judicial system
That guilty look
Hungary’s European Union presidency
Back to partisanship
Belarus’s crackdown
No applause, please
Italy and austerity
Berlusconi’s bung
Angela Merkel
Hello to Berlin
Balkan peacemaking
A beginning
Charlemagne
The view from the Vistula

■Britain
The phone-hacking scandal
The lowest low
Rebalancing the economy
Less paper, more iron
Paying for long-term care
Shades of grey
Health care
Doctors galore
Crop circles
Strange fruit
Bagehot
Strong, weak David Cameron
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■International
Women in political dynasties
The distaff of office
Polling religion
Unequal zeal

■A special report on the news industry
Bulletins from the future
How newspapers are faring
A little local difficulty
Making news pay
Reinventing the newspaper
Social media
The people formerly known as the audience
WikiLeaks and other newcomers
Julian Assange and the new wave
Impartiality
The Foxification of news
The end of mass media
Coming full circle
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Consumer goods
The mystery of the Chinese consumer
China’s murky ownership rules
Who owns what?
Germany’s odd media
Last-mover advantage
Dow Chemical
Making it in America
Korean animation
Of penguins and politics
Schumpeter
How to make college cheaper

■Briefing
Aviation
Climbing through the clouds

■Finance and Economics
Deleveraging
You ain’t seen nothing yet
Spain’s economy
Split personality
Ratings agencies and the debt crisis
More contortions
Chinese IPOs
A pause or a plunge?
Carson Block
Red-flag raises
Global house prices
Rooms with a view
The WTO and China
Hands slapped
Economics focus
Less haste, more freed

■Science & Technology
Robots
Zoobotics
Physiognomy
Facing the truth
Cell biology
On your marks...

■Books & Arts
African literature
Prince of the absurd
The CIA and al-Qaeda
Question time
New English fiction
Club of members
The war on drugs
Boxing cleverer
Stem-cell medicine
Hope over hype
“Trame” book festival
Fearless words

■Obituary
Robert Oakeshott

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, July averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Insurance