■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week (1)
KAL's cartoon (2)

■Leaders
Barack Obama's second term
Now, hug a Republican (254)
Greece’s debt burden
How to end the agony (20)
Mali
Terror in the Sahara (3)
Reforming welfare in India
Cash, with strings (2)
Lunacy and astronomy
In praise of moons (9)

■Letters
Letters
On assisted suicide, "theological", South Africa, Greece, Afghanistan, China, pop tunes (1)

■Briefing
The poor in America
In need of help (8)

■United States
The presidency
The remaking of the president (19)
Congress
Much ado about nothing (3)
Ballot measures
A liberal drift (7)
State-level elections
A battle of inches (1)
Election forecasting
Running numbers (5)
The budget deficit
To the cliff, and beyond (17)
After the storm
What Sandy did next
Lexington
State of denial (91)

■The Americas
Class in Latin America
The expanding middle (1)
Peru
Mayor and mafias (32)

■Asia
Welfare in India
Money where your mouth is (1)
Cash welfare in India
Warding off danger (3)
Sri Lanka’s judiciary
Courting trouble (2)
The Golden Triangle
The long arm of Chinese law (1)
Japan’s nuclear future
Rokkasho and a hard place (1)
Afghanistan
Location, location

■China
Communist Party congress
Treading water (1)
Factional politics
Old brooms
Congress-watching
Heard in the hutong
Banyan
Blunt words and keen swords (10)

■Middle East and Africa
Syria’s opposition
Get your act together or we won’t help (4)
Israeli politics
For him, the wrong American (19)
Saudi Arabia
The younger generation, at last? (2)
Mali and al-Qaeda
Can the jihadists be stopped? (3)
Kenya’s mobile telephones
Vital for the poor (2)

■Europe
Greece and the euro
Toil and trouble (7)
Russo-German relations
The shocking Mr Schockenhoff (6)
Russian defence
Reform and be sacked (1)
French competitiveness
A rude awakening (1)
Corruption in northern Italy
A plague on all their houses (1)
Business and organised crime
Hands over the city
Charlemagne
Hope and no change (3)

■Britain
Birmingham
Second city, second class (2)
Labour and Europe
Playing with fire
London’s schools
The lessons of Boris (1)
The living wage
Wage flaws (3)
A new church leader
Alpha male (1)
Police reform
Ah, democracy
Diseased trees
Ash to ashes
Bagehot
The weight of the world
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■International
Newspapers versus Google
Taxing times (9)
Piracy
Hung, drawn and quartered
Online advertising
Clicked off
Clarification: Digital copyright

■Business
Business continuity
Making it through the storm
European railways
Uncoupling the trains (2)
Corporate Japan
The good, the bad and the ugly (2)
Myanmar’s investment rules
Burmese haze
Translating and the law
Legal language (1)
Brazil in Africa
A new Atlantic alliance (7)
African hospitality
No vacancy (2)
Schumpeter
More than just a game (5)

■Finance and economics
Asian economies
Asia’s great moderation (1)
Buttonwood
Desperately seeking yield (1)
Energy markets
Charged atmosphere (1)
Investindustrial
Where others fear to tread
Ratings agencies
Crisis in ratings land? (7)
Academic papers and stockmarket returns
Keep digging
The economics of voting
The X factor (3)
Germany’s banking system
Old-fashioned but in favour (1)
Free exchange
Strength in numbers (3)

■Science and technology
Astrobiology
A harvest of new moons (3)
Palaeontology
Four wings, good. Two wings, better
Human evolution
Time’s arrows (2)

■Books and arts
Modern India
Liberal worries (2)
Macaulay in India
A modernist and reformer (3)
Family memoir
Fathers and sons
New cinema
The kuchu chronicles
European memoirs
A long, long road
Sir Stamford Raffles
Busy bee
Ancient Egypt
Toot toot, King Tut (2)

■Obituary
Russell Means (19)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist poll of forecasters, November averages
The Economist commodity-price index
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets