Sep 20th 2014

Xi who must be obeyed

The world this week

Leaders

The rise and rise of Xi Jinping

Xi who must be obeyed

The most powerful and popular leader China has had for decades must use these assets wisely

Health care in America

How to fix Obamacare

America’s health-care system remains dysfunctional, but it could be made better

Ebola

Chasing a rolling snowball

The world is still acting too slowly to stop Ebola

Inequality and the narrowing tax base

Too reliant on the few

Taxes are best raised on a broad base, but in many countries it is worryingly narrow

Greenhouse gases

Paris via Montreal

The quickest way to cut greenhouse gases is to expand the Montreal protocol

Letters

On Azerbaijan, work, air traffic, interns, Ukraine, heating, grades, batteries, Google

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Curbing climate change

The deepest cuts

Our guide to the actions that have done the most to slow global warming

Encouraging climate action

Try jam today

Policies to slow down warming may be more attractive if framed as ways of speeding up growth

Towards a treaty

The shadow of Copenhagen

A 2015 UN climate agreement is possible, but it will not be bold

United States

Obamacare

Experimental medicine

Private health care

The problem-solvers

The NFL and violence

The politics of outrage

Confronting Islamic State

A war by any other name

Country music and tourism

Heels and reels

Lexington

Hillary in Iowa

Correction

Drought in California

Painting the lawn green

The Americas

Venezuela’s economy

Of oil and coconut water

Bello

Latin America’s Korean dream

Laundering Mexico’s drug money

Washing up

Migration via Mexico

Taming the beast

Asia

Politics in Bangladesh

One and only one

The press in Japan

Gotcha

Health care in Vietnam

Limping along

Politics in Fiji

Back into the fold

South Asia and China

Xi Jinping’s progression

Banyan

Pax Sinica

China

Chinese politics

The power of Xi Jinping

Revolutionary history

Like father, like son?

Middle East & Africa

Confronting Islamic State

An improbable alliance

Crime and punishment in Saudi Arabia

The other beheaders

Egypt

Al-Sisi Ascendant

Nigeria’s online retailers

E-bola

Health in west Africa

Help in the time of Ebola

Europe

Ukraine and Russia

Win some, lose more

Russian oligarchs

Yukos 2.0?

Sweden’s election

Lofven’s coalition problem

German politics

There is an Alternative

Anti-Semitism in Germany

Who is the Other now?

French politics

The long road to 2017

Italy’s economy

Renzi redux

Charlemagne

Europe’s ring of fire

Britain

Public finances

The tax-free recovery

Foreign policy

Back into the fray

Hallowed be thy game

Football stadiums

Paying the field

The collapse of Phones 4U

Death of a salesman

Computing in schools

Hello world!

London’s sewers

Smelling sweet

Entrepreneurs

Startup fever

Insolvency

Going under

Bagehot

Clan Douglas

International

Addresses (1)

Getting on the map

Addresses (2)

Getting from A to B

Think-tanks and journalism

Making the headlines

Correction

Business

Companies and geopolitical risk

Profits in a time of war

Energy in Europe

The gasman cutteth

Brewery mergers

Foamy war

Huawei

The great disrupter’s new targets

Sony’s woes

Pouring cold water

Air France

Strikers against reality

Aircraft cabins

Piketty Airways

Schumpeter

Entrepreneurs anonymous

Finance & economics

Buttonwood

Can’t pay, won’t pay

Saving in poor countries

Beyond cows

China’s economy

A test of will

CaixaBank

Now, make money

Corporate tax dodging

Transfer policing

Tax inversions

Inverse logic

Shareholder rights

Out of control

Free exchange

Leaving dead presidents in peace

Science & technology

Artificial sweeteners

Saccharin solution?

Mining the microbiome for medicines

Set a thief...

Fusion power

Iterative processes

Extreme altruism

Right on!

Books & arts

French history

Flawed sparkler

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sturm und Drang

The army in Pakistan

Nosebags

Advice for start-ups

From one who should know

The Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1978

Loaded terms

The Wallace Collection

Stuffed full

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Mobile money in developing countries

Markets

Obituary

Obituary