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

■Leaders
The public sector unions
The battle ahead
Nemtsov in prison
Frozen out
Financial markets
The big mo
South Sudan
A necessary secession
Pakistan
A good man who did something

■Letters
On doctoral degrees, polluting ships, Richard Holbrooke, British pubs

■Briefing
Public-sector workers
(Government) workers of the world unite!

■United States
The 112th Congress convenes
In discord assembled
Improving teachers
Lessons learned
The Deepwater Horizon report
Blame and shame
Chris Christie
The conservative crush
Cowboy boots
A certain swagger
Rural health care
Country doc, city doc
Rows over GM crops
Seed of change
Lexington
Studying the Gipper

■The Americas
Post-earthquake Haiti
The year of surviving in squalor
Protests in Bolivia
Fuel on the fire
Science in Brazil
Go south, young scientist
Food in Mexico
Centéotl's pricier feast
Politics in Argentina
Down among the underclass

■Asia
Pakistan's increasing radicalisation
Staring into the abyss
Kazakhstan's benevolent father
Long live the khan
Australian politics
Julia Gillard's rising waters
Land grabs and a disputed death in China
Goons and the common man
India's energy diplomacy
Tipping the scales
Vietnam's troubled economy
Steady as she staggers
Banyan
The indispensable incarnation

■Middle East & Africa
South Sudan
Independence beckons
Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
Fear of contagion
Israel's party problems
Will the ruling coalition shrink?
The Gaza Strip
A rumble of war
Tunisia's troubles
Sour young men

■Europe
France's Socialist Party
The man who would be president
Spain and ETA
On the verge of a nervous peace
Ireland's election
Epic fail
Italy's brain drain
No Italian jobs
Serbia's arms industry
Bombs away
Polish politics
Get a move on
Charlemagne
Hungary's other deficit

■Britain
Bold newspapers
The crucible of print
Dealing with suspected terrorists
Last orders?
London's bicycle-hire scheme
Grit in the gears
Public relations
Ego goes solo
Kitchen cabinets in politics
Can stand the heat
Part-time higher education
Open sesame
Britain's inflationary relapse
A test of nerves
Bagehot
A compromising position

■International
Law and religion
Faith in courts
Global climate
Tough little girl
International rankings
Wrong numbers
Bioterror, Africa and security
A bug's life

■Business
Social media
Is Facebook really worth $50 billion?
Social media in Indonesia
Eat, pray, tweet
European tyremakers
Bouncing back
Starbucks v Kraft
A double shot of discord
Music videos
From cash cow to cachet
Air travel
The misery of flying
POSCO's Indian steel project
Greens v jobs
Schumpeter
The tussle for talent

■Briefing
Momentum in financial markets
Why Newton was wrong

■Finance and Economics
Price rises in China
Inflated fears
Indian inflation
Enough to make your eyes water
A more hopeful continent
The lion kings?
Bank of America
Moynihan's millstones
Buttonwood
Betting big on bonds
Grameen Bank
Saint under siege
Chinese capital markets
Another breach in the wall
Economics focus
Dismal ethics

■Science & Technology
Climate science
A fistful of dust
The inheritance of obesity
Thanks, Dad
Freight transport
Put that in your pipe and poke it
Palaeontology
The last supper

■Books & Arts
Politics and the internet
Caught in the net
The war on terror
History of an unfinished fight
Young Americans
Left out in the rain
The financial crisis
Piecing it together
America's revolution
The king's shilling
New film: “Black Swan”
Inside moves

■Obituary
Carlos Andrés Pérez

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

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

■Leaders
The United States, Israel and the Arabs
Please, not again
Elections in Belarus
A nasty surprise in Belarus
Network neutrality
A tangled web
The American economy
Proceed with caution
India and Kashmir
K is for complacency

■Letters
On Japan, private equity, nuclear power, vertical farming, morals, Social Security, mating behaviour, the euro

■Briefing
America and the Middle East
Great sacrifices, small rewards
Israel, Hamas and Hizbullah
Missiles all round

■United States
Demography and the economy
As boomers wrinkle
The 2010 census
Tilting rightwards
New York's new governor
Fathers and sons
Christian theme parks
Noah problem
Las Vegas in crisis
Party over
Lexington
Goths at the gate

■The Americas
Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
A coup against the constitution
Brazil's new president
Coming down to earth

■Asia
Thailand's red-shirt opposition
Beware the watermelons
Tensions on the Korean peninsula
Talking down the barrel of a gun
Beijing's traffic woes
Hitting the brakes
Kashmir's troubles
Shaking the mountains

■Middle East & Africa
Nigeria's restive delta
The president is threatened by a fraying amnesty
Kenya and the international court
Will they go quietly?
Iraq's new government
A tricky cocktail
Pollution in Tehran
The smoggiest of all capitals

■Europe
The Khodorkovsky verdict
Doing things the Putin way
Germany's Free Democratic Party
Feeling unwelle
German taxes
Not a mere bagatelle
Religion in Turkey
Diyanet effect
Slovakia and the euro
Bratislava's plan B
Charlemagne
Baltic bet

■Britain
Voting reform and the coalition
There is an alternative
Rail fares
After the deluge, the pinch
Gold mining
Precious but precarious
Bagehot
A plague on their House

■International
Information technology goes global
Tanks in the cloud
Phone calls
Hanging up

■Business
Alibaba
China's king of e-commerce
Luxury goods
The second handbag war
Ernst & Young sued over Lehman
Going for the auditors
Motorola
Breaking up
EADS
Peace on the Rhine
Schumpeter
Beyond the start-up nation
Correction: Internet start-ups

■Briefing
Online dating
Love at first byte
Business in China and the West
A tale of two expats

■Finance and Economics
Dubai's finances
Debt forgetfulness
Buttonwood
In a spin
Car finance
Into the fast lane
Charts of 2010
A year in nine pictures
Economics focus
Parallel economies

■Science & Technology
Methane on Mars
Now you don't...
Orthopaedics
Plastic surgery
Human evolution
The old man of the mountain returns

■Books & Arts
Art in Qatar
A Smithsonian in the sand
Gordon Brown's memoirs
Oh me, oh my
The making of the sexes
Fluid movement
Technology and monopolies
Separation anxiety
Natural history
Birdman

■Obituary
Hendrik Coetzee

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP growth forecasts, 2011, %
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Ships

■The world this week
The world this year
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
Globalisation
The redistribution of hope
Government debt
Behold 2011, the year of sovereign shocks
The Cancún climate-change conference
A sort of progress
WikiLeaks, protest and the law
The rights and wrongs of hacktivism
Putinisation in eastern Europe
The tasks undone

■Letters
On America and Europe, WikiLeaks, GM crops, students, Sarah Palin, happiness, the number 11

■United States
Long-term unemployment
In the bleak midwinter
Health reform
Terminal or curable?
The war in Afghanistan
Still pouring
Lexington
Barack Houdini Obama

■The Americas
Immigration in Canada
A smaller welcome mat
El Salvador's president
So far, so good
Mexico's drug war
Falling kingpins, rising violence

■Asia
India and China
Pushing back
China's civil service
Aspiring mandarins
War crimes in Bangladesh
Answering for history
Karachi's ethnic feuds
Mob battles
Boat people in Australia
Asylum or death?
Banyan
Great disorder under heaven

■Middle East & Africa
Somalia's insurgency
Sending the boys home
The media in southern Africa
U-turn on the long walk to freedom
Iran's foreign minister
Thank you and goodbye
Driving in Iraq
Still hazardous

■Europe
Silvio Berlusconi survives
Clinging on
Hungarian politics
Hungry for power
Terrorism in Sweden
A close shave
Christopher Cviic
Best of the Balkans
Kosovo's future
Organs of state
Montenegro and the European Union
Another Balkan candidate

■Britain
Reshaping local government
Careful what you wish for
Extremism in Luton
What went wrong
Rising unemployment and inflation
Bah humbug!
Cake and culture
Season's eatings
Bagehot
Christmas with Father Whip

■International
Climate-change diplomacy
Back from the brink
Extradition and WikiLeaks
Courting trouble
The Stuxnet worm
Yet to turn

■Christmas Specials
Age and happiness
The U-bend of life
Comparing countries
The rich, the poor and Bulgaria
Public houses
Time, gentlemen
The battle of Towton
Nasty, brutish and not that short
Chinese tourists
A new Grand Tour
Microcars
The marvellous Magyar microcars
Migrant farm workers
Fields of tears
Barbecue and American culture
Fire in the hole
Nollywood
Lights, camera, Africa
India's languishing countryside
A village in a million
Remembering the Boxer Uprising
A righteous fist
Babur, the first Moghul emperor
Wine and tulips in Kabul
The tyranny of choice
You choose
Public relations
Rise of the image men
Men's clothing
Suitably dressed
The history of manuscripts
Illuminating a dark age
The history of manuscripts
Codices decoded
Doctoral degrees
The disposable academic
Ascension Island
Another green world

■Business
Italian television
The glory of Berlusconi
Internet start-ups
Another bubble?
Rio Tinto and China
Digging with the dragon
Corporate law
Offshoring your lawyer
Schumpeter
Why do firms exist?
Corrections

■Finance and Economics
Lessons from Iceland
Coming in from the cold
Buttonwood
Squaring the triangle
The world's biggest economy
Dating game
The Madoff fraud
An affair to remember
Economics focus
Exploding misconceptions

■Science & Technology
Monitoring forests
Seeing the world for the trees
Peat bogs and climate change
Wet, wet, wet
Culturomics
Reading by numbers
Volcanic eruptions
Guided by the lightning

■Books & Arts
The future of English
English as she was spoke
A man and his mistress
Fancy women have their say
American finance
Borrowed time
Neapolitan banking history
Ducats for Caravaggio
Pakistani art
Breath of violence

■Obituary
Richard Holbrooke

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Remittances
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Tax revenue

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

■Leaders
The world economy
Three-way split
Dealing with Russia
Be critical, not hypocritical
Dealing with WikiLeaks
The right reaction
Israel, Palestine and America
A bad blip but not the end of the affair
Calamitous Côte d'Ivoire
Another big test for Africa

■Letters
On immigration, happiness, quantitative easing, North Korea, Chinese, occupied Paris

■Briefing
The state of Russia
Frost at the core

■United States
Taxes, benefits and the deficit
Kicking the can down the road
The president's deficit commission
No cigar
The House Appropriations Committee
Tweaking the tea-party's nose
Judicial appointments
Judge not
High-speed trains
Running out of steam
Road rage
Rattled
The most Republican states
Who is the reddest of them all?
Lexington
Playing chess with Iran

■The Americas
Education in Brazil
No longer bottom of the class
Education in Chile
Blackboard battle
Colombia's foreign policy
Seeking new friends
Haiti's election
Whomever they voted for...
Corruption in Canada
Les fleurs du mal

■Asia
Tensions on the Korean peninsula
From sunshiners to hardliners
Indian politics
Nothing to smile about
America's FTA with South Korea
Where's the beef?
China's Catholics
The party versus the pope
China's economy
Keqiang ker-ching
Australia's water war
Refilling the basin
Banyan
Under water

■Middle East & Africa
Talks between Israelis and Palestinians
Come back later
Qatar's World Cup win
What cash can do
Saudi Arabia and China
Looking east
Nigeria's primaries
A northern bid
Iran's morality campaign
Watch out!
South Africa's opposition
Making a little difference

■Europe
France loses ground to Germany
Power shift
The Irish budget
A tight squeeze
Europe's resilient economies
Little triggers
Italy’s tottering government
Finished by Fini?
Disappointing Romania
Holes and corners
Charlemagne
Fighting fire with fire

■Britain
Energy and climate change
Clean and green, for a price
Academic excellence
The best or the rest
Russian espionage
Clots and plots
University tuition fees
Agreeing to disagree
Prison reform
Tiger by the tail
Britain's regions
Call the Scots
Philanthropy and the arts
Give over
Bagehot
A question of character

■International
The war on WikiLeaks
Fingered
WikiLeaks' latest
More dope, no highs
Coming next
A swarm of leaks

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Seeing into the future
Monitor
Blow me up, blow me down
Monitor
Air power on the cheap
Monitor
Better safe than sorry
Monitor
Monster power
Monitor
Flying saucers
Monitor
Not to be sniffed at
Monitor
Airships of the sea
Monitor
Fluid defences
Monitor
And the winners were...
Difference Engine
Bigger and better than Wi-Fi
Vertical farming
Does it really stack up?
Inside story
Superstructures
Mini nuclear reactors
Thinking small
Satellite wars
Endangered birds
Brain scan
Making data dance
Offer to readers

■Business
Investing in Russia
Pepsi's Russian challenge
The renewable-energy business
Shining a light
Ships as polluters
Smokestack lightening
Face value: Marc Simoncini
Lucky in love
Chinese business
Where are the profits?
Health care in the Middle East
Sun, shopping and surgery
Bookselling
Repelling Borders
Business and WikiLeaks
Be afraid
Schumpeter
Barack and business
Correction: trendwatching.com

■Briefing
Ford
Epiphany in Dearborn

■Finance and Economics
European banks
The last idealists
Asian economies
Importing pessimism
Financial lawsuits
Give peace a chance
The American mortgage mess
Invest then protest
Private equity in Europe
The lost continent
Buttonwood
Getting real
Economics focus
All pain, no gain?

■Science & Technology
Sexual selection
Hunkier than thou
Prevention of cancer
Wonder drug
Perfume
Making sense of scents
Embryonic stem cells
Testing science

■Books & Arts
China's financial system
Look again
Benjamin Britten
Songlines
Mr Brainwash, street artist
Con or can do
Mediterranean cities
Winds of cosmopolitanism
The meaning of a fetus
Bearing witness

■Obituary
Elaine Kaufman

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Employment outlook
Correction: South Africa

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

■Leaders
Global power
The dangers of a rising China
The future of the euro
Don't do it
WikiLeaks
Read cables and red faces
British politics
Who Miliband?
Google and antitrust
Engine trouble

■Letters
On microfinance, America's deficit, the United Nations, the Austrian school, Israel, tea, lumberjacks, spammers

■Briefing
WikiLeaks
Unpluggable
What WikiLeaks revealed
From soporific to sizzling

■United States
Repairing California
The tide begins to turn
The lame-duck Congress
Running on empty
Gays in the armed forces
That's telling them
Endless elections
Minnevota
Pollution and race
In whose backyard?
Unpicking gun laws
Roll-back
Evangelical Protestants
Looking for a leader
Lexington
The qualities of Sarah Palin

■The Americas
Organised crime in Brazil
Conquering Complexo do Alemão
Argentina's president
Tiptoeing to the centre
Haiti's election
A vote rubbished
The Latinobarómetro poll
The democratic routine

■Asia
Taiwanese democracy
Half a cheer for China
Malaysia's opposition
Nurul, just like the old one
Kazakhstan and the OSCE
Toasting a brighter tomorrow
Japan's hobbled government
Common censure
Televised nostalgia in Japan
Those were the days
Banyan
Lips, teeth and spitting the dummy

■Middle East & Africa
Arab democracy
A commodity still in short supply
Iraq's southern oil hub
Better than Baghdad
South Africa and AIDS
Getting to grips
Côte d'Ivoire
Still divided
Survival in the Sahel
It's getting harder all the time

■Europe
Germany and the euro
We don't want no transfer union
Turkey and religious freedom
Wooing Christians
French humour
Ho ho, very satirical
The Catalan election
Mas transits
Belarus's president
Lukashenka at bay
Europe and development aid
Waylaid
Charlemagne
On a wing and a prayer

■Britain
Terrorism in Northern Ireland
The curse of the conflict junkies
Police reform
Power to the people
Angry banks
Las Vegas leaving
Gauging the recovery
Quick, quick, slow
Skyscrapers
Stand tall
Labour's leader
The tortoise strategy
Weather and climate
A cold warming
Bagehot
The Lib Dems take a pasting

■International
Internet governance
Routing it right
Farmers and food prices
Dare to grow more

■A special report on China's place in the world
Brushwood and gall
The fourth modernisation
Less biding and hiding
In the balance
Friends, or else
Strategic reassurance
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
The internet
How long will Google's magic last?
Indian corporate scandals
Dynamic but dirty
Music in China
Free as a bard
Nuclear power
Team France in disarray
Shareholder activism
Ready, set, dough
Investing in start-ups
The pivotal moment
Schumpeter
The status seekers

■Briefing
The crisis in the euro area
No easy exit
Breaking up the euro area
How to resign from the club

■Finance and Economics
Morgan Stanley
Getting back to business
Accounting in Hong Kong
Hard numbers
Banks in Cyprus
Europe's other island
Dealing with bad banks
Equipping the emergency room
Buttonwood
Hands off our pensions
Corporate profits in America
Gimme a “V”
Economics focus
Vote for agony

■Science & Technology
Cosmology
Going round in circles
Explaining autism
Energy drain
Flying snakes
Slithering through the air

■Books & Arts
Books of the Year
Page turners
Books by Economist writers in 2010
Pages and pages

■Obituary
Brian Marsden

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Public social spending
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Bank lending

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

■Leaders
Climate change
How to live with climate change
Immigration reform
Let them have a DREAM
The euro crisis
Spreading from Ireland to Iberia
American monetary policy
Fed under fire
Coping with North Korea
How do you solve a problem like Korea?

■Letters
On China, Brazil, Turkey, Cyprus, geoengineering, ballot initiatives, the Walkman, David Cameron, Germany, surpluses, Cuba

■Briefing
The euro crisis
A contagious Irish disease?

■United States
The politics of the Fed
Bernanke in the crosshairs
America's inheritance tax
Beating the deadline
New START in trouble
The road to 67
Immigrants and higher education
School daze
After SB1070
Adios Arizona
Texas politics
The resurgent right
Airport security
Hands off our junk
Bill Clinton: the opera
Blythe spirit
Lexington
One nation, with Aunt Susan

■The Americas
Brazil's next government
Many questions, a few answers
Tourism in Mexico
Can't keep them away
Poverty in Canada
Mean streets
Peru's archaeological heritage
Homeward bound

■Asia
Conflict on the Korean peninsula
Ignore us at your peril
Graft in India
Rotten to the crore?
Afghanistan's election results
The fix is not quite in
Tragedy in New Zealand
No miracles left
Anger in Taiwan
Sensors and sensibility
Myanmar's border with China
Good fences
Tragedy in Phnom Penh
A deadly stampede in Cambodia
Banyan
One country, two nations

■Middle East & Africa
Egypt's election
Another charade
The Jordan valley
A dry bone of contention
The Saudi succession
Still murky
Sierra Leone's minerals
Digging for trouble
Football in Africa
Clean it up
Burkina Faso's president
From captain to conciliator

■Europe
Polish foreign policy
Dancing with the big boys
Croatia and corruption
Cordon Sanader
Taxes in Germany
Loaded
Taxes in France
Unsqueezing the rich
Charlemagne
Europe and America

■Britain
London's high-tech start-ups
Silicon Roundabout
Teaching in schools
At the chalkface
Capping immigration
The fire next time
House-building
Jerry-built
Oil and gas
Into the even deeper
Knitwear
Dropped stitches
Bagehot
They told you so

■International
International justice
In the dock, but for what?
NATO after the summit
Harmony―for now
Overhauling schools
How to get good grades
Catholics and condoms
No kidding

■Business
Carmakers
Fiat plays double or quits with Chrysler
America's retailers
Holiday hopes
Face value: Softbank's Masayoshi Son
Son also rises
Building hardware
Going up
Business in the Balkans
Coming together
Private equity buys into care homes
Wall Street goes long on grannies
Schumpeter
Mittel-management
Correction: Dynegy

■Briefing
Adapting to climate change
Facing the consequences

■Finance and Economics
Private equity in China
Barbarians in love
Municipal bonds
The mortgage parallel
Buttonwood
Plugging the hole
Restructuring banks
Don't start from here
Insider trading on Wall Street
Outside the law
Art-title insurance
Peace of mind
Economics focus
The joyless or the jobless
Correction: Andhra Pradesh

■Science & Technology
Artificial intelligence
No command, and control
The fight against AIDS
HIV's slow retreat
Allergy to wine
The oenophile's lament
Cancer and obesity
Malignant flab
Animal obesity
The fat cat cometh

■Books & Arts
André Kertész
Beneath the surface mood
The Rockefellers
Cultural heroes
War heroes
Born to live
Gardening
Planting ideas
The Russian default
Stumbling towards infinity
Art of remembering
That was then

■Obituary
Emilio Massera

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Greenhouse-gas emissions
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global investment-banking fees

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

■Leaders
America's budget deficit
Speak softly and carry a big chainsaw
The euro-zone crisis
Saving the euro
Dealing with spam
Confidence game
British immigration
Scrap the cap
Microfinance
Leave well alone
The future of Japan
The Japan syndrome

■Letters
On deforestation, Colombia, high-speed rail, higher education, Ireland, Laayoune, the Republicans

■Briefing
America's deficit
Confronting the monster

■United States
America in numbers
One nation, divisible
Congress reconvenes
An end to earmarks
Municipal troubles
All economics is local
New York's recovery
Happy apple
Illegal immigration
Targeting the boss
Islam in Tennessee
An uncivil action
Lexington
Bluff and counter-bluff

■The Americas
Rebuilding Haiti
Politics in the time of cholera
Venezuela's economy
Towards state socialism
Mexico's film industry
¡Acción!
Illegal mining in South America
Ungreen gold

■Asia
China's rising prices
Hunting down the hoarders
China's price inflation, continued
Caterpillar fungus, the new gold
Bangladesh
Politics of hate
A coronation in Sri Lanka
Beating the drum
Hong Kong's paternalism
Raspberries all round
North Korean defectors
No paradise, but better than hell
Corruption in Indonesia
The adventures of SuperGayus
Banyan
Freedom from fear

■Middle East & Africa
Israel, the United States and Palestine
Fix those borders first
Libya
Open yet closed
Syria's evangelical Christians
Don't try too hard
Iraq's new leaders
A government begins to emerge
Rhinos in South Africa
A horny headache
Guinea's presidential poll
Please stay calm
Boxing in Nigeria
A rumble in the Sahel

■Europe
France's new government
Old wine in new bottles
François Fillon
The nobody who became somebody
Silvio Berlusconi under pressure
An Italian job
Greece's budgetary woes
A long odyssey
Portugal's financial worries
Atlantic trouble
Germany, central Europe and Russia
Frau fix-it
Hungarian politics
Constituting a problem
Charlemagne
Gang that can't shoot straight

■Britain
Cutting immigration
Shutting the door
The inflation overshoot
Still choppy
Distance learning
It all adds up
The royal engagement
Just the job
The secret services and torture
The price of secrecy
Information and public services
Weighing sunlight
Musical chairs at big banks
One man's giant leap
Bagehot
Beveridge's children

■International
The changing landscape of online fraud
Long life spam
Spamming dissected
A great deal out there
Road safety and vigilantism
Soft pedal

■A special report on Japan
Into the unknown
Generation change
On the down escalator
Insiders and outsiders
Corporate euthanasia
Recharging the batteries
Social insecurity
Friends and neighbours
The dearth of births
Bring on the cultural revolution
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Television
China's got viewers
Teaching Chinese
Mandarin's Great Leap Forward
Energy companies
Power struggle
Japanese manufacturers
Leaving home
Innovation in IT
The liquefaction of hardware
Yogurt
Creamy
Programmable processors
Kneading chips
Schumpeter
The Brazilian model

■Briefing
Ireland's economy
Threadbare

■Finance and Economics
European bond markets
Last among equals
The G20 aftermath
The Delhi consensus
Microfinance under scrutiny
Overcharging
Paul Calello
A good banker
Buttonwood
Taking von Mises to pieces
Banco PanAmericano
Nothing to see here
Cricket and labour markets
Opening stand
Economics focus
Data birth

■Science & Technology
Animation and robotics
Crossing the uncanny valley
Pollution in the Himalayas
Time to call the sweep?
Antimatter
Gotcha!
Pesticides
Smoking them out

■Books & Arts
Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court
The scorpions' stratagems
Paris under the Nazis
Flying the flag
Books in prison
Page turner
Haunted Britain
Spooky
Pirate radio in Britain
Glory days
Art of the Americas
Expansion

■Obituary
Liang Congjie

■Economic and Financial Indicators
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■Leaders
Chinese acquisitions
China buys up the world
Commodity traders
Know your onions
Reform in Cuba
Raúl the pragmatist
United Nations
Thinking the UNthinkable
Welfare reform
Getting it right

■Letters
On the mid-term elections, Turkey, corruption, quantitative easing

■Briefing
The future of NATO
Fewer dragons, more snakes

■United States
Congress
Rocking the party
The president's deficit commission
Nice try
Unemployment insurance
Cold comfort
Politics in the South
The long goodbye
New York's schools
A new head of the class
The Chicago mayor's race
His kind of town
“Puppy mills”
A dog's life
Water-saving in the north-east
Trees grow in Brooklyn
Lexington
Reassessing George Bush

■The Americas
Reform in Cuba
Trying to make the sums add up
Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Dredging up votes
Policing in Canada
Mutiny of the Mounty

■Asia
Obama in Asia
The elephant outside the room
The India-Pakistan border
Keeping the hackles up
Japan and its unfree trade
Paddies vs Prius
Indonesia's Mount Merapi
Dangerously hot air
Taiwan and Japan
X not V
Court scandals in Thailand
Judges in the dock
Human rights and how to deal with China
Don't you dare go to dinner
Banyan
The dog that didn't bark

■Middle East & Africa
Lebanon and the region
Can there be justice as well as stability?
Israel and its natural resources
What a gas!
Iraq's looming new government
This time they may really do it
Uganda's dangerous rebels
Lords of woe
South Sudan and independence
Pressing the north to let the south go

■Europe
Immigration in Germany
Multikulturell? Wir?
Berlin's economy
The hole in the middle
Turkey and press freedom
Publish and be damned
Media freedom in Russia
Smashing the messengers
Slovakia's rickety government
Law or justice
French diplomacy
The Quai adrift
Charlemagne
Power to the European market

■Britain
Trade and foreign policy
Go east, young men
The government's new guru
Bring me sunshine
A riot in London
Students get rowdy
Anglicanism splits
Flying bishops take off
Gay marriage
Banned banns
A row over defence
The seat of their pants
Magazine publishing
Read all over
Housing benefit
Where the heart is
Bagehot
The British bayonet
Awards

■International
Trusting charities
Faith, hope and charities
Data protectionism
Serfing the web

■Business
Hotels
Asset-light or asset-right?
Rolls-Royce
Containing engine failure
General Motors' revival
Living in lean times
Tata's Nano
Nah, no
Wireless health care
M-powered
Ermenegildo Zegna
Fashionably alive
America's law schools and firms
Trouble with the law
Schumpeter
Sticking together

■Briefing
Chinese takeovers
Being eaten by the dragon

■Finance and Economics
The euro-zone crisis, again
Still crazy after all these yields
Commodity speculators
Dr Evil, or drivel?
Minerals in Asia
A rock, not a hard place
Buttonwood
South Sea QE
The G20 meetings
What you going to do about it?
Economic indicators from the web
Dotconomy
East European exchanges
Bourse battle
Economics focus
Tax from scratch

■Science & Technology
Global science
Climbing Mount Publishable
Obesity, malnutrition and gestation
Slim pickings
Psychopathy
Socially challenging

■Books & Arts
The American civil war
Into the flames
Modern Egypt
The new pharaohs
Ireland's economic woes
Tiger, tiger, burning dull
Early Renaissance Italy
Behind closed doors
The history of finance
The man who stamped the crash
Photography
As it is, not as it should be

■Obituary
P. Lal

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■Leaders
America's elections
The Republicans ride in
Silvio Berlusconi under pressure
A comedy that has gone on too long
Running the world economy
Finally, a talking-shop worth having
Smart systems
Living in a see-through world
Myanmar's elections
The junta takes one small step back

■Letters
On Colombia, Israel, libraries, smart-phones, water, stockmarkets, energy, gays, children, reluctance, spending cuts

■Briefing
Myanmar's election
Slowly, the army eases its grip
Myanmar's tribal conflicts
Excluded

■United States
The mid-terms
The latest thumping
The speaker
Passing the gavel
Barack Obama's response
That tin ear
Economic policy
Countdown
The governors' races
In the red
Ballot initiatives
Change we can do without
Lexington
And now on to the White House

■The Americas
Brazil's next president
Stepping into outsize shoes
Spying and corruption in Colombia
The dark side
Foreign investment in Canada
Not so fast

■Asia
Rocky relations between China and Japan
Bare anger
A Russo-Japanese tiff
Unsettling territory
Indian corruption
Scam-flat millionaires
Freedom of speech in Singapore
You can cage the singer
Indonesia's police
Cop killers
China's ten-yearly census
The world's biggest headcount
Banyan
Street life, street death

■Middle East & Africa
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Can Israel now say boo to America?
Elections in Jordan
Judging by turnout
Iraq's insurgency
Another spasm
Zimbabwe
Enough's enough―but what next?
Diplomacy over Western Sahara
Morocco v Algeria

■Europe
Italy's beleaguered prime minister
A step too far
Greece's economic troubles
Pasok and its discontents
France's rigid labour laws
Labour pains
Nordic politics
Love in a cold climate
Ukraine's government
Life under Yanukovich
Latvia's new government
And for my next trick
Charlemagne
A grim tale of judges and politicians

■Britain
The treatment of veterans
The unmourned
Homelessness
Cutting out the middle men
The Anglo-French defence pact
Divided we fall
The Murdochs and Sky
Patience, Rupert
Paying for higher education
The cap fits
Pop-ups
Up, up and away
Strikes and trade unions
Struck out
Bagehot
Terror and dissent

■International
Yemen's local and global terrorism
No quick fixes
A history of parcel bombs
Going postal
Air freight and counter-terrorism
Turbulence
Bomb-making for beginners
Bangers

■A special report on smart systems
It's a smart world
A sea of sensors
Making every drop count
Living on a platform
Augmented business
The IT paydirt
Your own private matrix
Sensors and sensibilities
Horror worlds
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Business and bureaucracy
Snipping off the shackles
Bihar's pro-business reforms
Paper tiger
Japanese bosses
From Walkman to hollow men
The defence industry
War on new fronts
Oracle v SAP
Maintaining fees
Face value: Martin Sorrell
King of the Mad Men
Schumpeter
The other elephant

■Briefing
The global monetary system
Beyond Bretton Woods 2

■Finance and Economics
The Fed's big announcement
Down the slipway
Pay at investment banks
Mutiny over the bounty
The yuan-dollar exchange rate
Nominally cheap or really dear?
Europe's new regulators
Continental shift
Buttonwood
Accentuate the negative
Ambac's fall
And then there was one
Microfinance in India
Discredited
Economics focus
Fail safe
Correction: Buttonwood

■Science & Technology
Geoengineering
Lift-off

■Books & Arts
The Ambani brothers
A durable yarn
Bringing history to life
Ages of imagination
The rise of Asia
At America's expense
Cancer
With hope, farewell fear
Giuseppe Eskenazi
Emporium of wonders

■Obituary
Viktor Chernomyrdin

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■Leaders
The mid-terms
Angry America
America's economy
Not by monetary policy alone
Talking to the Taliban
The end of the beginning
Nigeria
End Buggins's turn
Latin America
The passing of kirchnerismo

■Letters
On pensions, campaign finance, legalising marijuana, opinion polls, euthanasia, Norman Wisdom

■Briefing
Obama and the mid-terms
How did it come to this?

■United States
The mid-terms
A gathering storm
Unemployment and elections
Testing the rule
Earthquakes in California
Practice for the big one
The youth vote
In need of care and attention
Black voters
Not taken for granted
Skilled immigration
Green-card blues
Lexington
The good, the bad and the tea parties

■The Americas
Argentina after Kirchner
The end of an era
Mexico's economy
Bringing NAFTA back home
The Toronto mayor's race
Time for tea?
Cholera in Haiti
Another plague

■Asia
War in Afghanistan
Lunch with the Taliban
India and America
A damp squib
Sri Lanka's moral policing
Rajapaksa's big cover-up
Blogging in China
Breaching the great firewall
Politics in the world's largest city
Fish fight
Banyan
Where there's smoke

■Middle East & Africa
Kenya and east Africa
Can Kenya make its new deal work?
Tanzania's election
Promises, promises
Nigeria's doughty presidential candidate
Mr Anti-Corruption joins the fray
Satellites in the Arab world
Stop their orbit
Israel and its Orthodox Jews
Exceptional difficulties

■Europe
The euro-zone economy
Grounded
France's pension reform
After the protests
Serbia and the EU
Brussels beckons
Climate change and the Mediterranean
Saving our sea
Headscarves in Turkey
On their heads be it
Germany's Nazi diplomats
The machine's accomplices
Charlemagne
Europe's need for e-freedom
Correction: Viktor Yushchenko and Irfan Aktan

■Britain
Infrastructure
And now for the good news
The growth surprise
So far, so good
Globalisation and higher education
Learning without frontiers
Supermarkets
Aisle change
Devolution and the spending cuts
The ties that bound
Bagehot
Street smarts

■International
The fight against corruption
Naming and shaming
Transparency International
Murk meter
Aviation security
Airport attack
WikiLeaks
This time is different
Evangelical Christians
Heaven and earth

■Business
Technology firms and Barack Obama
End of the silicon honeymoon
A takeover bid for Hochtief
Battle of the builders
Broadband in America
Come sooner, future
Computer gaming
Pros clicking at war
Selling cars
Ford can fiesta again
Corporate volunteering
Big-hearted Blue
Virtual outsourcing
Mobile work
Schumpeter
Corporate constitutions

■Briefing
The future of biofuels
The post-alcohol world

■Finance and Economics
Dependence on China
The indispensable economy?
Daylight-saving time in Japan
Bright idea
Stockmarkets in Asia
Marketmaters
Finance and climate change
Green backing
Britain's banking supremo
King plays God
Buttonwood
Far from the meddling crowd
Swiss banking
Alpine redoubt
Bank failures in America
More but merrier
Economics focus
Level worship

■Science & Technology
Biodiversity
More complicated than you think
Human communication
Gesture politics
Plastics
There and back again
Pornography and politics
Rising to the occasion

■Books & Arts
Atheism and the Enlightenment
In the name of godlessness
Climate change
The iron lawyer
The Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Wolves or sheep?
The Atlantic Ocean
What are the wild waves saying
Music criticism
From classics to pop
Leon Kossoff
Out on a limb

■Obituary
Joan Sutherland

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Rebasing our commodity index
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Sub-Saharan Africa's GDP

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Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
China's succession
The next emperor
A country's welcome rise
Is Turkey turning its back on the West?
Brazil's presidential election
Second round, second thoughts?
America's property market
Home truths
Convention on Biological Diversity
The least of God's creatures has value
Britain's spending review
Ouch!

■Letters
On far-right politicians, guns in America, child benefit, electric cars, swearing, cleanliness

■Briefing
Germany's role in the world
Will Germany now take centre stage?

■United States
The mid-terms
States' fights
New York
Strange meeting
Ballot measures
Up to the fourth branch
Pat Toomey v Joe Sestak
Suspennsylvania
New Mexico's 2nd congressional district
An immigration election too
Biotechnology in North Carolina
After tobacco
Infrastructure spending
False expectations
Free internet
The librarian's tale
Lexington
Trouble with the humans

■The Americas
Brazil's presidential election
Better late than never?
Chile's copper industry
Reviving Codelco
Media freedom in Latin America
Shooting the messenger
Obesity in Mexico
One taco too many

■Asia
China's next leader
Xi who must be obeyed
China's muffled media
Gagging to be free
Pakistan's political crises
A biggish dust-up in Karachi
Anglo-Indians
Some corner of a foreign field
Australia's climate-change policy
Greening Oz
Mongolia's mining boom
Nomads no more
Banyan
SBY's feet of clay

■Middle East & Africa
Electricity in Nigeria
Let there be light
Ethiopia and China
Looking east
Corruption in South Africa
Brothers in arms
Bloggers in the Middle East
Don't be too cheeky
Israel and Palestine
We built this city on rock'n'roll

■Europe
France's protests
Where the streets have no shame
Spanish politics
Zapatero's endgame
Portugal's public finances
The apology of Sócrates
Moscow's new mayor
A graduate of the school of Putin
Poland and Lithuania
Narcissistic differences
Charlemagne
The treat of treaties

■Britain
Cutting back the state
Day of the long knives
The enemies of austerity
Coalition of the unwilling
The strategic defence review
A retreat, but not a rout
Prison reform
Let 'em out and throw away the key
Protests
Off our streets
Prenuptial agreements
Romantic small print
Bagehot
Austerity Britain's global ambitions

■International
Political parties
The party's (largely) over
Health-care management
How to save lives
Archiving the web
Born digital
New Roman Catholic cardinals
Unbendable

■A special report on Turkey
Anchors aweigh
Doing it by the book
The Davutoglu effect
A fading European dream
Immovable object
Balance of power
All Turks together?
Silk road to riches
In it for the long haul
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Smart-phone lawsuits
The great patent battle
Privatising Coal India
Powering the tiger
Daimler's innovation unit
Thinking outside the car
Gender arbitrage in South Korea
Profiting from sexism
A Franco-German train tiff
Ils ne passeront pas
Pharmaceuticals
Attack of the biosimilars
Luxury goods
Bling is back
Shoplifting
Five-fingered discounts
Schumpeter
Companies aren’t charities

■Briefing
Drexel Burnham Lambert's legacy
Stars of the junkyard

■Finance and Economics
Terra Firma and Citigroup
Take that
Alternative investments in Europe
Goalless draw
China's economy
A new epic
Buttonwood
Engine trouble
Global house prices
Floor to ceiling
The AIA offering
Bailing out
BNP Paribas
Stop. Think. Act
Economics focus
Drowning or waiving

■Science & Technology
Computer vision
Eye robot
Policing
The aftershocks of crime
Clean water
Silver threads of life
Evolution and coat colour
Well spotted
Correction: SpaceShipTwo

■Books & Arts
Zimbabwe
Battered yet resilient
George Washington
First among equals
The Caucasus
Playground for war
Mahmoud Darwish's journal
Sad prophet
Weeds
Shards of green
John Baldessari
So what is this thing called art?
New film
Dancing with death

■Obituary
Benoît Mandelbrot

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■Leaders
The global economy
How to stop a currency war
News Corporation's bid for BSkyB
Clouding over the Sky
Drugs and security in North America
Mexican waves, Californian cool
Islamic law and democracy
Sense about sharia
Public-sector pensions
Three-trillion-dollar hole

■Letters
On the American constitution, Somalia, cyberwar, Brazil's elections, qat-chewing, David Bowie, teachers' unions, Trident

■Briefing
Organised crime in Mexico
Under the volcano

■United States
Health care and the mid-term elections
Coming back to bite him
The Rockies
The mile-high battle
Marijuana in California
An altered state
The economy
It's all up to the Fed
More senior staff changes
Out goes the general
Prisons and mobile phones
Bricking the intruders
Poverty in the suburbs
Mortgage or food
Lexington
An own goal on gay rights

■The Americas
Chile's mine rescue
Plucked from the bowels of the earth
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Latin American liberal
Canada's foreign policy
Snubbed

■Asia
North Korea's succession
Spinning the wrong 'Un
The Philippines' awakening president
Noynoy's welcome stand
Japan's judiciary on trial
Prosecutors or persecutors?
India's cricket scandals
A high stakes game
Kyrgyzstan's election
Teetering steppes
Developing Afghanistan
Now the splurge
Banyan
A hard stone in the wilderness

■Middle East & Africa
Arab elections
Not much of a choice
Bahrain's pre-election jitters
Backward steps
Israel and its Arabs
Pulled apart
South Africa's foreign policy
Human rights? What's that?

■Europe
Anglo-French defence co-operation
Entente or bust
France's strikes
Struck off
Troubleshooting in the western Balkans
Outsiders needed
Hungary's toxic sludge
Waltzing with disaster
Italy's Northern League
Not so grim up north
Europe's gas pipelines
The abominable gas man
Charlemagne
Money matters

■Britain
Paying for higher education
The coalition's first big exam
Philanthropy
The giving game
The rise of Sky
No wonder they're scared
Labour's new line-up
Team Miliband
Political rhetoric
You know―or do you?
The switch in price indices
One cut to rule them all
Bagehot
Lest ye be judged

■International
Sharia in the West
Whose law counts most?
Islam's legal lexicon
How to speak sharia
When referendums work
Vox pops
Law, politics and internet addresses
tough.ly/treated

■Business
Nuclear power in America
Constellation's cancellation
Renewable electricity
Not just wind
Vaccines
A smarter jab
Business in Iraq
Of bribes, bullets and bargains
Innovation in China
Patents, yes; ideas, maybe
Consumer goods
Basket cases
Accountancy firms
A conflict of interest?
Gymboree
Bain's baby bet
Schumpeter
The business of sharing
Award: Ludwig Siegele
Corrections: Panera Cares restaurant and Dollar Thrifty

■Briefing
American states' pension funds
A gold-plated burden

■Finance and Economics
Currency wars
Fumbling towards a truce
China's reserves
In need of a bigger boat
The Big Mac index
An indigestible problem
Foreclosuregate
Robostop
Indonesian banks
Profits puzzle
Sovereign-debt managers
Rollover roulette
Buttonwood
Old-age tension
Corn prices
As high as an elephant's eye
The IASB's new leaders
Double entry
Economics focus
Search and employ

■Science & Technology
Psychiatric diagnosis
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Obesity
Does light make you fat?
Education
Learning difficulties
Anti-censorship
Hidden truths
SpaceShipTwo
Glide path to success?

■Books & Arts
Mass murder
History and its woes
The rise of private equity
Buccaneering
Urban development in America
Monuments to power
Humanitarian aid
Feeding the beast
Medieval France
Slouching towards the Renaissance

■Obituary
Norman Wisdom

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Global hunger
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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Biggest sovereign CDS positions

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Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
The world economy
The quest for growth
Electoral boundaries in America
Time to bury Governor Gerry
Public spending
Biting the hand that feeds him
Electric cars
Highly charged motoring
Zimbabwe
Call Robert Mugabe's bluff

■Letters
On the euro, forests, wind farms, mortgages in America, the Senkaku islands

■Briefing
Zimbabwe
Can Robert Mugabe ever be persuaded to give up?

■United States
The California governor's race
Enter the housekeeper
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rage against the machine
Political polls
Still worth reading?
Pete Rouse
A new man for harder times
Indiana's Senate race
The blue blip
Southern Baptists
The new Calvins
Wave power
Help from the moon
Birdwatching
Rara avis
Lexington
The best Congress money can buy?

■The Americas
Brazil's presidential election
A miss, but not by a mile
Brazil's electoral laws
Send in the clown
Ecuador's police mutiny
A strike against democracy
Human rights in Argentina
Do as I say
Chile's Mapuches
Trying violence

■Asia
Pakistan's shaky government
Hobbling along
America and Pakistan
On the brink
American troops in Afghanistan
The Petraeus strategy up close
Railways in Tibet
Mount Everest is singing for joy
The Commonwealth games in Delhi
At least they started
South Korea's kimchi crisis
Of cabbages and Kims
Banyan
And never the twain?

■Middle East & Africa
Iran's economy
Sanctions begin to bite
Women in South Africa
Walking several paces behind
Bombings in Nigeria
A bloody election omen
An index of African governance
A rum old mix

■Europe
France's president
Watch out, world
Politics in the Netherlands
Not exactly Dutch courage
Ireland's politics
How now Brian Cowen?
Latvia's election
Guts and glory
Germany's Greens
Greenery in high places
German beer drinking
Oktobergloom
Charlemagne
A false prophet

■Britain
The row over welfare cuts
And for my next trick
The Tory right
Blue on blue
Housing immigrants
Bleak house
Fire-service reform
More with less
North Sea oil
Striking the set
Cornish pasties
Upper crust
Paying for higher education
To the victor, the bill
Bagehot
Keep calm, but don't carry on

■International
Holy places
Unholy rows
Aquifers
Deep waters, slowly drying up
Alien torts
Trial trails
Global health funding
Passing the tin

■A special report on the world economy
How to grow
Withdrawal symptoms
The cost of repair
From hoarding to hiring
Pass and move
Smart work
A better way
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Electric cars
A sparky new motor
Microsoft's mobile operating system
Windows or curtains
Video communication
Beaming in Grandma
Car hire
Drive my car
Fast-food restaurants
Dough rising
Bright Food
A growing appetite
Irish companies
Riding the tiger
Schumpeter
The other demographic dividend
Correction: Patents

■Briefing
What's working in music
Having a ball

■Finance and Economics
Investment banking
The big squeeze
Buttonwood
The magic bullet
Regulating Swiss banks
First mover
The flash crash
Autopsy
Oil prices
Crude awakening
The Japanese economy
Easy does it
SocGen's rogue trader
All his fault
Economics focus
Flood barriers
Correction: Ireland

■Science & Technology
Chinese ethics
Scientists behaving badly
Asteroid Lutetia
A dusty neighbour
The 2010 Nobel prizes
Making new things
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Phoning ET

■Books & Arts
Global power
On top of the world
James Wolfensohn
Banker to the world
A literary memoir
Killer instinct
Edith Cavell
Carve her name with pride
Eadweard Muybridge
Man in motion

■Obituary
Michael Lassen

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Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
India's economy
India's surprising economic miracle
Brazil's presidential election
The handover
Cyberwar
The meaning of Stuxnet
Britain's fiscal squeeze
On the tight side
Financial regulators
Finance's other bosses
Education in America
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

■Letters
On Boeing, India and Nepal, Canada's armed forces, Latinos, Mustique, higher education, South African politics, maps, foreign banks

■Briefing
Brazil's presidential election
Lula's legacy

■United States
The budget and the election
The red ink war
Ohio
Back and forth
Governors' races
The rest of the Midwest
Louisiana's 2nd House district
How now, Mr Cao?
Guns and state borders
Trekking north
Households
Cramped quarters
Energy in Texas
The search for power
Lexington
The loneliness of Barack Obama

■The Americas
Venezuela's legislative election
The revolution checked
Security in Colombia
The beginning of the end
Measuring Mexico's economy
Getting bigger

■Asia
China
The debate over universal values
Kyrgyzstan's election
A vote into the unknown
North Korea
We three Kims of Orient are
Education in Vietnam
Low grades for the party
Cambodia and Islamism
Courting the Cham
Banyan
A half-pike up the nostril

■Middle East & Africa
Reform in Saudi Arabia
At a snail's pace
Israel and Palestine
Stumbling at the first hurdle
How Syria controls its dissidents
Banning travel
Yemen's bad habit
You can't easily qat it out
Drugs in Africa
A lot of pain

■Europe
The sacked mayor of Moscow
Medvedev 1, Luzhkov 0
Italy's political ruptures
Silvio the survivor
Bosnia's election
So this is democracy
Spain's economy
Sideshow in the streets
Press freedom in Turkey
Don't cross Erdogan
French education
A chorus of disapproval
Charlemagne
Economic sanctions? Yes, please

■Britain
Labour's new leader
Red, ready or neither?
The other Ed
The unofficial winner
The nuclear deterrent
Gunning for Trident
The Supreme Court
Cheap at the price
Rural broadband
Wiring Arcadia
Financing small business
The mother of invention
Bagehot
Get it, or it will get you
Correction: Hastings

■International
The Stuxnet outbreak
A worm in the centrifuge
Rare earths and China
Dirty business
Viktor Bout
Man in the dock
Measuring global poverty
Whose problem now?

■Business
The return of advertising
The box rocks
Prisa and Spanish media
The cost of Liberty
Retailing
The beast goes on safari
Tablet computers
Chasing King Apple
The global lorry market
Crash repairs
Innovation in Asia
Trading places
Airbus v Boeing
Plane poker
Schumpeter
Money and power
Correction: Melbourne Business School

■Briefing
Business in India
A bumpier but freer road

■Finance and Economics
The euro zone's trouble spots
The bottomless bail-out
Spain's banks
Two cheers, three tiers
AIA lists again
Déjà blue
Buttonwood
The last great hope
The battle for Stuyvesant Town
The housing rubble
Venture capital
Angels or demons?
Precious metals
Silver lining
Accounting's new era
Beancounter there, done that
Economics focus
Cutting edge

■Science & Technology
Mimicking black holes
Dr Hawking's bright idea
Extending lifespan
Thanks, Mum!
Personal urban transport
The bubble car is back

■Books & Arts
The Crimean war
A holy war of an unusual kind
Innovation and technology
Well, what a good idea!
God, science and knowledge
Knowing it all
The life of Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Dahl
Practical architecture
Making life easier
The full Bronzino
Power and glory in paint

■Obituary
William Coblentz

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
HIV/AIDS
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Junk bonds

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

■Leaders
Forests and how to save them
The world's lungs
Nuclear weapons
Just do it
The North Korean succession
Thanks Dad
Barack Obama and business
The wages of negligence
Europe's single-currency woes
Euro follies
Israel and Palestine
Keep on fudging

■Letters
On President Sarkozy, game conservation, Middle East peace talks, patents, Manmohan Singh, Damien Hirst, Zoroastrians, Rod Blagojevich

■Briefing
The Millennium Development Goals
Global targets, local ingenuity
Child malnutrition in India
Putting the smallest first

■United States
Barack Obama and corporate America
No love lost
Larry Summers resigns
The brains trust dissolves
The Florida Senate race
Is Rubio stoppable?
Barack Obama and Afghanistan
Get me out of here
Predatory fish
The carp tsar's struggle
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill
After the kill
Lexington
The perils of constitution-worship

■The Americas
Venezuela's legislative election
Chávez grapples with a 50/50 nation
Energy policy in Quebec
High-speed gas
Brazil and peacekeeping
Policy, not altruism
Peru's reviving left
Oh! Susana

■Asia
North Korea's succession
Next of Kim
China's spat with Japan
Deng's heirs ignore his advice
Indonesia's capital
Metro or bust
Afghanistan's parliamentary election
Not exactly a ringing endorsement
Banyan
The games people play (or not)

■Middle East & Africa
South Sudan
Are they heading for a crash?
Hamas and the peace talks
Contradictory noises
Israel's religious right
That wobbly balance
Shia Muslims in the Gulf
Worrying times

■Europe
German politics
It's a rainy day, sunshine girl
Data privacy in Germany
No pixels, please, we're German
Sweden's election
The winner doesn't take it all
Romanies
Home thoughts
France's poor image
France v the world
Charlemagne
Angels and demons

■Britain
The Liberal Democrats
The price of power
Vince Cable
Karl Marx meets Adam Smith
Reviewing extradition
Hand 'em over
Scooters
Three wheels good
The future of Lloyds
Stuff happened
Regeneration and cuts
One in the eye
Welfare spending
Pistols at dawn
Bagehot
Playground politics

■International
Betting on sport
The agony of influence
Indoor pollution
Silent and deadly

■A special report on forests
Seeing the wood
Money can grow on trees
Better REDD than dead
Keeping it in the community
Not a small problem
The long road to sustainability
Less smoke, less ire
Something stirs
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Brazil's mining giant
Valuable Vale
The wine boom in Hong Kong
Days of wine and tulips
Smartphones in South Korea
LG's woes
Retailing in South-East Asia
Exit Carrefour
Facebook on film
Screen test
Green energy
Wild is the wind
Corporate governance
Pointers for predators
Newspapers in India
Where print makes profits
Schumpeter
The wiki way

■Briefing
How to run the euro
Fixing Europe's single currency
A Keynesian prototype
Standard solution

■Finance and Economics
The yuan goes global
A Mao in every pocket
US-China trade relations
Speak less softly, carry a stick
Currencies
Trial of strength
Buttonwood
Busily going nowhere
America's consumer-protection agency
The big guys' lament
Italian banks
An exit unbecoming
Hedge funds
Tucking in
Economics focus
The Marmite effect
Correction: Ireland

■Science & Technology
The biology of business
Homo administrans

■Books & Arts
Art and politics
How a young revolutionary fooled the city elders
Britain in the 1970s
Worst of times, best of times
African travel
Seeking the soothsayers
Seamus Heaney's poetry
The squat pen rests
Saving trees in Amazonas
A well-hugged lot
Lucian Freud
The painter in his studio
The story of eels
Slithery, determined and mysterious

■Obituary
Bärbel Bohley

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Household access to energy
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Petrol tax