World politics
Great sacrifices, small rewards
Has America’s obsession with this region been worth it?Dec 29th 2010
United States
As boomers wrinkle
The most troublesome age group ever still has some last fireworks up its sleeveDec 29th 2010
Fathers and sons
High hopes for Andrew Cuomo are tempered by austere timesDec 29th 2010
Goths at the gate
After two years of Democratic ascendancy, Washington braces for divided governmentDec 29th 2010
The Americas
A coup against the constitution
Rather than share power with the opposition, Hugo Chávez castrates the newly elected legislatureDec 28th 2010
Coming down to earth
Dilma Rousseff takes over a booming economy—and rising inflation and interest rates, lack of investment in infrastructure and a fiscally incontinent legislatureDec 29th 2010
Asia
Beware the watermelons
Politics remain dangerously polarised at the start of an election yearDec 29th 2010
Talking down the barrel of a gun
After a bold show of force, South Korea revives the prospect of talksDec 29th 2010
Shaking the mountains
India’s response to an uprising in Kashmir has been, by turns, repressive and complacent. It is storing up trouble for the futureDec 29th 2010
International
Tanks in the cloud
Computing services are both bigger and smaller than assumedDec 29th 2010
Middle East and Africa
The president is threatened by a fraying amnesty
Former militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta could go back to war—and dent President Goodluck Jonathan’s chance of election in AprilDec 29th 2010
Will they go quietly?
A coalition of the accused may try to block the International Criminal CourtDec 29th 2010
A tricky cocktail
Nobody knows how the long-awaited administration will actually workDec 29th 2010
The smoggiest of all capitals
A not-so-divine cloud enwraps Iran’s capitalDec 29th 2010
Europe
Doing things the Putin way
The system, constructed by Vladimir Putin, that put Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison keeps him thereDec 29th 2010
Feeling unwelle
The leader of a junior coalition partner comes under pressure to quitDec 29th 2010
Not a mere bagatelle
New-year revellers will have to pay more to celebrate with German bubblyDec 29th 2010
Diyanet effect
How liberal is the new head of Turkey’s religious-affairs body?Dec 29th 2010
Bratislava's plan B
Slovakia believes in the euro zone’s rules. Not a popular stanceDec 29th 2010
Britain
There is an alternative
The referendum on electoral reform could be the decisive political event of 2011, and perhaps of this parliamentDec 29th 2010
After the deluge, the pinch
Britain’s expensive trains are set to get even pricierDec 29th 2010
Precious but precarious
The high price of gold is encouraging miners to dreamDec 29th 2010
A plague on their House
British distrust for politicians is peculiarly dangerousDec 29th 2010
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