United States

America's budget

• Praising Congressman Ryan
  

  At long last somebody is trying to grapple with America’s fiscal troubles (60)

• • • The real fight begins
    • (13)
  • • Where the GOP budget stacks up, and where it doesn't
    • (30)
  • • The problem with its plan for Medicare
    • (71)
  • • A better health-care option
    • (36)
  • • An odd fib among the many omissions
    • (36)

America's recovery

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  A gentle tailwind

  Employment is moving, ever so slowly, in Barack Obama’s direction (1)

• • • Ignore the hawkish rhetoric. The Fed isn’t about to tighten
    • (1)
  • • Government debt-managers may be undermining quantitative easing
    • (7)
  • • The effects of America's worst property crash go very wide
    • (43)

The civil war's legacy

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  Finally passing

  Assessing America’s bloodiest war, 150 years later (71)

• • • The author responds to comments
    • (28)
  • • Is the white Southern Democrat extinct, endangered or just hibernating?
    • (40)
  • • An ambitious reappraisal of the war
    • (22)
  • • A selection of photographs and music from the time of the war
    • (2)

America and Libya

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  Togetherness in Libya

  Barack Obama’s awfully big change in America’s use of force (45)

• • • Time is running out for Qaddafi
    • (2)
  • • The rebels are trying to create order very slowly out of chaos
    • (1)
  • • Our correspondents discuss Obama's foreign policy
    • (1)

The census

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  Minority report

  White America’s collapsing birth rate is changing the face of the country (104)

• • • Now it is the turn of America’s blacks to leave for the suburbs
    • (10)

Obama's energy policy

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  Reheated proposals

  Barack Obama lays out some old plans for cleaner and more independent energy (43)

• • • Japan's crisis will slow the growth of nuclear power
    • (90)

The Republicans

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  Is America ready for Romney?

  The trends of public opinion bode ill for the president. Is there a Republican capable of capitalising? (39)

• • • Pawlenty backtracks on climate change
    • (47)
  • • Good Newt v Bad Newt
    • (29)
  • • Bring forth a pragmatic Republican. He might win
    • (29)
  • • Can a Mormon win the White House?
    • (105)

• Also on this channel

• California's Republicans

  Dead, or just resting?

  The threat of demography (3)

• Politics in Maine

  Easy on the tea

  Trouble with the governor (3)

• National Public Radio

  Radio interference

  Republicans want to cut off funding for NPR (5)

• JFK and quantitative easing

  Twisted thinking

  Government debt-managers may be undermining quantitative easing (7)

• Arizona divided

  A tale of two counties

  Part of Arizona, embarrassed by the rest of the state, would like to secede (14)

• Technology firms and health care

  Heads in the cloud

  Digitising America’s health records could be a huge business. Will it? (17)

• Berkshire Hathaway

  Unexpected loss

  A possible successor to Warren Buffett leaves (17)

• Military strategy

  Cry havoc! And let slip the maths of war

  Warfare seems to obey mathematical rules. Whether soldiers can make use of that fact remains to be seen (41)

• Online media distribution

  Raging bulls

  Music and television firms fret about their distributors’ new business models (3)

• Economics focus

  Cash machines

  Calls to boost manufacturing ignore the gains still to be made from services (3)