Over the cliff?

The fiscal cliff

On the edge

America’s demographic squeeze

Double bind

Right-to-work laws

Now Michigan

Food stamps

Counting pennies

Racial classification

All together now

Season’s greetings

Merry Chrismukkah

Lexington

Terms of surrender

Venezuela

Preparing to pass the torch

Foreign investment in Canada

Thus far but no further

Justice in Colombia

Who should try the soldiers?

North Korea’s rocket launch

Beaming

Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban

To the table

The economy

An understated recovery

The capital

Removal time

Political symbolism

Ditching dour

Banyan

The rocky road to revival

Egypt’s choice

The Founding Brothers

America and the Middle East

The masochism tango

Unstable Mali

The 400 coups

South Africa

Wrangling in the ruling party

Ghana’s election

Still shining

Italian politics

Will Monti run for prime minister?

Romania’s election

Clear victory, uncertain future

Serbia

Confounding expectations

Danish Christmas trees

Firly resilient

Lower Saxony

The Hanoverian connection

Russian politics

A new ideology for political ends

Charlemagne

Europe’s worries about Italy

Northern Ireland

The bones of the past

Gay marriage

Ties that divide

Linn hi-fi systems

Streaming toddler

Managing floods

Go with the flow

Anglo-Russian relations

Ballets Russes

Sir Patrick Moore

Fallen star

Bagehot

A season of dolour and dole

Measuring diversity

The London effect

The politics of corruption

Squeezing the sleazy

Catholic conservatives

A traditionalist avant-garde

Climate conference

What Doha did

The big picture

The science

The caveman’s curse

Treating obesity

Slim pickings

Health effects

A heavy burden

Small, rich and overweight

Food companies

Food for thought

The Big Mac index

Government intervention

The nanny state’s biggest test

Nudge, nudge

Containing obesity

The last course

Sources & acknowledgements

Foxconn

When workers dream of a life beyond the factory gates

Corporate taxation

Wake up and smell the coffee

The EU’s unitary patent

Yes, ja, oui, no, no

Corporate computing

Network effect

Personal data

Know thyself

Hispanic television in America

Lights, camera, acción!

Tourism

From satanic mills to sundecks

Schumpeter

Gold-hunting in a frugal age

Infrastructure in India

RIPPP

Buttonwood

Big is not always beautiful

HSBC and Standard Chartered

Too big to jail

The Federal Reserve

The other mandate

Inequality in China

To each, not according to his needs

When global banks fail

National trust

Financial-transaction taxes

Skimming the froth

Free exchange

The scam busters

Global health

Lifting the burden

Space flight

Flight of the phoenix

3D printing

Your flexible friend

Parenthood and life expectancy

Pro creation

Political theory

Thinking men

Turkey

Out of the chrysalis

A history of pirates

Eye on the main chance

British theatre

The miller’s tale

New cinema: “Midnight’s Children”

Night vision

The “Ring” cycle at the Teatro Massimo

Offstage noise

Dave Brubeck