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Barack Obama's trip to Europe

• The Obama tonic
  

  The American president’s message of hope could be useful in Europe (3)

Reforming Medicare

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  Welcome to the gerontocracy

  The electoral heft of elderly voters dooms creative proposals to save Medicare to irrelevance (48)

• • • Medicare has a lemons problem
    • (15)
  • • Message from upstate New York: touch Medicare at your peril
    • (2)

America and the Middle East

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  You can't make everyone happy

  Barack Obama mildly pleased some Arabs, annoyed a lot of Israelis and has yet to bring the prospect of Middle East peace any closer (30)

• • • Our correspondents discuss Binyamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress
    • (81)
  • • Not everyone was impressed with Bibi's speech
    • (47)
  • • Palestine's own negotiations
    • (1)

The Republican nomination

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  Picture perfect

  But can Utah’s impressive ex-governor catch up with the front-runner for the Republican nomination, his fellow-Mormon Mitt Romney? (7)

• • • Tim Pawlenty's crusade for truth
    • (21)
  • • Gary Johnson's hobbling virtues
    • (52)
  • • Conservatives have it out for Mitt Romney because he reminds them of their own inconsistency on health-care reform
    • (46)
  • • Our correspondents discuss the Republican race
    • (4)

The recovery

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  Special factors or new trend?

  Reassessing a strong growth forecast (4)

• • • What's wrong with the economy?
    • (210)
  • • Why ever fewer low-skilled American men have jobs
    • (71)
  • • America's transport infrastructure is lacking
    • (69)
  • • America must spread the benefits of innovation
    • (31)

Barack Obama and American business

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  Don't bully Boeing, Barack

  Want to prove you are “pro-business”? Condemn a loony-left complaint against America’s biggest exporter (65)

• • • A federal agency bashes Boeing
    • (7)

The Afghan campaign

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  Single or quits

  Afghanistan is doing a little better; Barack Obama should not rush out of it (22)

• • • It’s been a long slog, but Afghanistan may at last be able to contemplate more stable government
    • (18)

The politics of the pump

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  A rhetorical blowout

  America’s politicians cannot control the price of petrol—but they still try (59)

• • • Natural-gas production is booming, but its green image is in question
    • (14)
  • • Paul Ryan the fibberoo
    • (48)

Immigration reform

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  The demographic politics of immigration

  Obama will capitalise on the Republicans' inability to come together behind a Latino-outreach strategy (89)

• • • In the immigration debate, it's important to separate border security and illegal immigration
    • (24)

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