World politics
How did it come to this?
The candidate who promised hope and change has delivered neither. But it is not entirely his faultOct 28th 2010
United States
A gathering storm
The only question is just how bad it will be for the DemocratsOct 28th 2010
Testing the rule
The link between jobs and seats is less clear than many supposeOct 28th 2010
Practice for the big one
Political earthquakes are bad enough—but there are real ones loomingOct 28th 2010
Not taken for granted
Democrats are going all out to get black voters into the booths. Will it matter?Oct 28th 2010
Green-card blues
A backlash against foreign workers dims business hopes for immigration reformOct 28th 2010
The good, the bad and the tea parties
A partial defence of the movement that has transformed the mid-term electionsOct 28th 2010
The Americas
The end of an era
The president is widowed, politically as well as personally. What happens now?Oct 28th 2010
Bringing NAFTA back home
Despite Chinese competition, Mexico’s exports are growing. But the country is still not taking full advantage of its trade agreement with the United StatesOct 28th 2010
Time for tea?
A rough right-winger takes charge of Canada's largest cityOct 28th 2010
Asia
Lunch with the Taliban
Recent hopes of a negotiated peace are overblownOct 28th 2010
Rajapaksa's big cover-up
Young lovers and naked women had better watch outOct 28th 2010
Breaching the great firewall
Home-grown microblogs are succeeding where Twitter failedOct 28th 2010
Fish fight
Tokyo’s governor is starting to look like yesterday’s sushiOct 28th 2010
Where there's smoke
Among the many things hard to see in South-East Asia’s haze is the real progress made in combating itOct 28th 2010
International
Naming and shaming
It is a long march, but progress is being made against corruptionOct 28th 2010
Murk meter
The best-known corruption index may have run its courseOct 28th 2010
Middle East and Africa
Can Kenya make its new deal work?
The prime minister, Raila Odinga, is optimistic that Kenya will bolster its position as the region’s hub. But first it must make its new constitution workOct 28th 2010
Promises, promises
Tanzania is still a backwater compared with its Kenyan neighbour to the northOct 28th 2010
Mr Anti-Corruption joins the fray
The man who hounded politicians over graft is now facing them at the pollsOct 28th 2010
Stop their orbit
The authorities want to control the airwaves—if they canOct 28th 2010
Exceptional difficulties
The prime minister’s endless tangle with the ultra-religiousOct 28th 2010
Europe
Grounded
The French strikes are winding down. But a comparison with Germany shows that the country still has deep economic problems to addressOct 28th 2010
After the protests
As the dust settles, what have the French learned about themselves?Oct 28th 2010
The machine's accomplices
A new book shows that the foreign ministry was complicit in Nazi crimesOct 28th 2010
Europe's need for e-freedom
Internet commerce reveals the limits of Europe’s single market. Freeing it up will bring growth and social benefitsOct 28th 2010
Correction: Viktor Yushchenko and Irfan Aktan
Oct 28th 2010
Britain
And now for the good news
Britain needs better infrastructure. But the government must choose its investments wiselyOct 28th 2010
Learning without frontiers
Rocketing demand is luring British universities abroadOct 28th 2010
The ties that bound
Will the government’s spending cuts fray the union?Oct 28th 2010
Street smarts
Labour’s shadow chancellor is just the sort of pragmatist that the party needsOct 28th 2010
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