Jan 3rd 2009

Gaza: the rights and wrongs

The world this week

Leaders

Israel's war in Gaza

Gaza: the rights and wrongs

Israel was provoked, but as in Lebanon in 2006 it may find this war a hard one to end, or to justify

The euro at ten

Testing times

Europe’s currency has been more successful than sceptics expected, but it now faces its stiffest test

Fifty years of the Castro regime

Time for a (long overdue) change

Both in Cuba and in American policy towards it

The oceans

A sea of troubles

Man is assaulting the oceans. They will smite him if he does not take care

Business

Managing the Facebookers

The balance of power between old-school managers and young talent is changing—a bit

Letters

On Sudan, Rwanda, socialism, Muslims, mobile phones, Ecuador, Bernard Madoff, Ginger Rogers

Briefing

The Cuban revolution at 50

Heroic myth and prosaic failure

All the Castro brothers have to celebrate this week is survival. But that in itself is a remarkable achievement

Cuba's economy

Ill winds

Hurricanes have added to the woes of the downturn

The euro at ten

Demonstrably durable

Europe’s single currency has been a haven in recent financial storms. But as capital markets become more discriminating, it no longer affords shelter from reform

Emerging economists

International bright young things

The next generation of economists do their best work somewhere between the field clinic and the dissection room

United States

Re-training America's workers

The people puzzle

Barack Obama's BlackBerry

Subject: Wall Street

Unemployment insurance

A safety net in need of repair

The Christmas bird count

Hunting without guns

Charleston

A turn in the South

Re-naming America

Obamaville

Lexington

Huntington's clash

The Americas

Venezuela

Socialism with cheap oil

The Caribbean

Hanging them high

Asia

Bangladesh's election

The tenacity of hope

India, Pakistan and Kashmir

A good vote in the angry valley

Turkmenistan

Shadow movement

Horse racing in China

Go for big chests and slim waists

Japanese immigration

Don't bring me your huddled masses

Middle East & Africa

Israel and Gaza

Pummelling the Palestinians

Gaza and Hamas

What can we do?

The laws of war

Proportional to what?

Guinea

After the dictator, the deluge

Europe

Russia

Uncle Volodya's flagging Christmas spirit

Ukraine's government

From heroic to farcical

Turkey and the Kurds

Television diplomacy

Spain's unemployment

Longer dole queues

Kosovo and Serbia

Deployment days

Christians in Kosovo

Conversion rate

Britain

Retailing gloom

Shopped out

Election speculation

Will he, won't he?

High-speed rail

A surprising conversion

Crime statistics

The unkindest cut

International

Higher education

The future is another country

Internationalising American universities

The Americans are coming

Business

European bankruptcy laws

Out of pocket

America's car industry

No end to the nightmare

Research and development

Rising in the East

Management

Generation Y goes to work

Performance management

The Rypple effect

Face value

The other transition

Finance & economics

Banking in China

Needed: a strategy

Buttonwood

Ready for a rally?

Fixing finance

A slice of Danish

The Madoff scandal

Follow the feeders

Bank strategy

Return to wealth

Economics focus

Diagnosing depression

Science & technology

Numbers

Easy as 1, 2, 3

More numbers

When 1, 2, 3... is not enough

Culture

America and the Middle East

How to learn from history

Memoir of Iran

Reading Lolita again

Oliver Cromwell

Headless story

Demographics

Greying globe

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kid in a candy store

Hedgehogs

Prickly charmers

Economic & financial indicators

Overview

Output, prices and jobs

The Economist commodity-price index

Unemployment rates

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

Markets

South Korea

Obituary

Harold Pinter

Special report

Troubled waters

Scramble for the seabed

The curse of carbon

More abused than used

Plenty more fish in the sea?

Come, friends, and plough the sea

Grabbing it all

An Icelandic success

Saline solutions