■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
India
In search of a dream
The euro
The rage in Spain
Venezuela’s presidential election
Henrique and Hugoliath
Nigeria’s insurgency
Hold your nose and talk
Britain's economy
Heading out of the storm

■Letters
Letters
On Texas, Hong Kong, Brazil, Alawites, democracies, Colombia, circumcision, sex, beer

■Briefing
Venezuela’s presidential election
The autocrat and the ballot box

■United States
Barack Obama and black voters
Returning to the mountaintop
Heath care, the old and the election
Medicare, ultimate edition
Swing states: Virginia
The incomer effect
Campaign finance
Money trouble
The campaign
Heard on the trail
Infrastructure
They aren’t building that
Lexington
A mandate of slackers

■The Americas
Argentina
The president and the potbangers
Chile’s economic statistics
For richer?or poorer
Corruption in Brazil
Worth the wait
Diplomacy
Embassy-mates

■Asia
Japanese politics
Aberration
Cambodia’s economy
Not a complete stitch-up
Water wars in Central Asia
Dammed if they do
Japan’s salarymen
Feeling the pinch
North Korea
The faint smell of dog fart
Australia’s Northern Territory
Northern lights
Banyan
Fighting monsters

■China
Rural activism
Working the system
58,500 tonnes of diplomacy
China’s rich list
To get rich is not always glorious

■Middle East and Africa
Nigeria’s crisis
A threat to the entire country
South Africa’s strikes
The fear of contagion
Mozambique’s riches
All fired up
Iran
Behind the rants, uncertainty grows
Libya and its militias
Who’s in charge?
Egypt and Gaza
A honeymoon that wasn’t

■Europe
Euro crisis
The end of the euro’s Indian summer
Italian politics
A waning star?
Pig’s head masks and togas
Germany’s living history
Chancellor of unity
Turkish politics
A historic trial
Georgia’s election
Pain and grief in Georgia
Charlemagne
The other moral hazard

■Britain
The economy
Mustn’t grumble
Jaguar
The cat returns
The Liberal Democrats
Nick of time Britain Only
Whistleblowers
Strengthening the resistance Britain Only
Gambling
Goodbye to all that Britain Only
England’s pro-growth towns
Texas in the shires Britain Only
Bagehot
For the birds
Britain Only Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist

■International
Horseracing
All bets off
Beer and work
Frothy prices
Ammunition depots
Storing up risk
Correction: State Department

■Special report: India
Aim higher
Politics
Power shifts
The candidate
The economy
Express or stopping?
On a hiding to something
Education
A billion brains
Cities
Concrete jungles
India abroad
No frills
The tragedy of the commons
An uphill walk

■Business
News Corporation
Have I got news for you
AirAsia
Spreading its wings
Mining in Indonesia
Bumi’s a bum deal for investors
Maps on smartphones
Lost
Security firms in Zimbabwe
Guarded optimism
Auction houses
From Picasso to Qi Baishi
An Indian conglomerate in trouble
Scotch on the rocks
Schumpeter
Fixing the capitalist machine
Corrections: Illegal logs and American beers
Clarification: BCCL

■Finance and economics
The next crisis
Sponging boomers
Public debt
Easy does it
The Big Four accounting firms
Shape shifters
Buttonwood
The secrets of Buffett’s success
Reforming LIBOR
The $300 trillion question
Tax alchemy
Tech’s avoidance
Bitcoin
Monetarists Anonymous
Currency protests
Money talks
Free exchange
An incurable disease

■Science and technology
Cheap smart weapons
Rockets galore
Industrial robots
Baxter gets to work
A novel coronavirus
Fingers crossed
Medicine
Nosing ahead
Marine biology
Scents and sensibility

■Books and arts
Poland at war
The vivisection of Poland
The drug industry
Pick your pill out of a hat
J.K. Rowling’s book for adults
Beyond Harry Potter
William Henry Seward
Out of the shadow
Elderly pets
Time to go, or perhaps not? Islamic culture
Islam in Paris
Correction: Bronze at the Royal Academy

■Obituary
Edwin P. Wilson

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
The Economist commodity-price index
Global investment-banking revenue