The magician

Health care

A new prescription for the poor

Imprisonment in California

From prison to jail

Free trade and the yuan

One step forward, one back

The primaries

The drawn-out primary calendar

South Carolina

Hello, sunshine!

West Virginia’s governor’s election

The machine wins

The status of the unborn

A person already?

Lexington

The inkblot protests

Universities in Latin America

The struggle to make the grade

Drugs in Venezuela

By the planeload

Canada’s Senate

Half measure

Road safety in Mexico

The lawless roads

Politics in Myanmar

A change to believe in?

Pakistan’s energy shortage

Lights out

Radiation in Japan

Hot spots and blind spots

Commemorating China’s 1911 revolution

From Sun to Mao to now

The last of the Manchus

Et tu, Manchu?

Banyan

The Mongolian sandwich

Egypt’s future

The generals’ slow and unsteady march to democracy

Syria’s opposition

Getting its act together?

Libya’s revolution

Messy politics, perky economics

Kenya and piracy

Fetching them on the beaches

Malawi

Going the wrong way

Greece’s woes

Debts, downturns and demonstrations

Greece and its region

Georgios no-mates

Italian justice

Unbalanced scales

France’s Socialists

Generation game

Violence in Bulgaria

Out in the streets

Spanish politics

Rajoy’s burden

Polish politics

Tusk and whiskers

Charlemagne

Return to Maastricht

Correction: Budget-deficit and debt chart

The Tories

More Mr Nice Guy

Berezovsky v Abramovich

A little local difficulty

The economy

QE plus

Cuts at the BBC

Auntie’s razor

New ways to borrow

Shark bait

Bus wars

Round and round

Bagehot

Friends in need

The Open Government Partnership

The parting of the red tape

Human rights

A tigress and her tormentors

Clarification: Manwin

Beyond the PC

Consumerisation

The power of many

Apps on tap

Personal technology at work

IT’s Arab spring

Adapting personal IT for business

The consumer-industrial complex

Droid wars

Ubiquitous computing

Up close

Technology and society

Here comes anyware

Creating employment

A helping hand for start-ups

Digital newspapers

Another brick in the wall

Business and politics

Howard’s way

Mongolian copper

Halfway to where?

Schumpeter

Getting on the treadmill

Western banks

Danger everywhere

Solving the euro-zone crisis

The plan to have a plan

Buttonwood

A crisis carol

Spain’s banks

Bring out your dead

Shorting China

Panda bears

Bond investing

Death by low yields

India’s economy

Not just rubies and polyester shirts

Economics focus

Lightness of being

Stem cells

The nuclear option

The 2011 Nobel prizes

Expanding horizons

Marine ecology

What a gas!

Diagnosing dementia

Advance warning

Human violence

Punchline

A history of measurement

From yardsticks to metre rule

Joseph Heller and his fiction

The first cut is the deepest

The battle of Gallipoli

A terrible beginning

Selling Gerhard Richter

The bold standard

Wangari Maathai