Oct 18th 2014

The war on Ebola

The world this week

Leaders

The epidemic in West Africa

The war on Ebola

To win it requires a much larger effort in west Africa than the outside world has so far pledged

Brazil’s presidential election

Why Brazil needs change

Voters should ditch Dilma Rousseff and elect Aécio Neves

Germany’s flagging economy

Build some bridges and roads, Mrs Merkel

The German government should invest money in infrastructure, not worry about balancing its budget

Chinese debt

The great hole of China

Its debt will not drag down the world economy, but it risks zombifying the country’s financial system

British politics

Farage against the machine

Mainstream politicians seeking to rival the populism of Nigel Farage’s party are on a hiding to nothing

Letters

On Africa, sexual consent, Turkey, jobs, Napoleon, welfare, Homer Simpson

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Brazil’s presidential election

Looking for change

Under Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s economy has stalled. She promises to reignite growth—but faces a strong challenger

United States

After the mid-term elections

If the Republicans win the Senate...

Obamacare and the mid-terms

The law that dare not speak its name

Young voters

Let’s set the world on fire

Iowa’s Senate race

The importance of being Ernst

Antitrust law

Tooth and justice

The Neiman Marcus catalogue

Hold the myrrh

Lexington

The politics of Guantánamo

The Americas

Mexico and impunity

When crime is unchecked

Bello

The travails of ALBA

Asia

Remaking India

Yes, prime minister

Cleaning India

Eating dust

Japan’s economy

Consumptive

Illiberalism in South Korea

Insult to injury

Banyan

Joko, we’re not in Solo any more

Correction

China

Police firearms

Weaponised

Pingyao

In banking’s shadow

Hong Kong’s protests

Chipping away

Middle East & Africa

Syria

Tough, but bowing

Slavery in Islam

To have and to hold

The Shia in Saudi Arabia

The sword unsheathed

The status of Jerusalem

A mount of troubles

South African politics

Shaking the kaleidoscope

The campaign against Islamic State

Hard choices

Europe

German politics

Sedating, not leading

Germany’s parliament

Order, order!

Catalonia’s future

Mas observation

Turkey and the Kurds

War-war, not jaw-jaw

Bosnia’s elections

Wind of change

Serbia’s government

Europe or Russia?

Charlemagne

The squeezed middle

Britain

Politics

We are the 89%

Air cargo

The freight debate

Recognising Palestine

A state of things to come

Supermarkets

Trolley wars

Economic regulation

Nudge nudge, think think

Muslim Council of Britain

No one to talk to

The queen's knickers

Victoria’s secret

Property taxes

Lessons from Mr Smith

Bicycle rickshaws

Wild West End

Bagehot

Manhandling Britannia

International

The Ebola crisis

Much worse to come

Portrait of a virus

A killer in close up

Business

Grocery retailing in India

A long way from the supermarket

German business and government

Still cosy?

Foreign entrepreneurs in China

Small is not beautiful

Power distribution

Grid unlocked

European chipmakers

Fighting back

Business in Myanmar

Let a million factories rise

Schumpeter

Pointers to the future

Finance & economics

Buttonwood

Bears, but no picnic

Mobile payments

Emptying pockets

Corporate taxation

Death of the Double Irish

Monetary policy

Tight, loose, irrelevant

Anti-Semitism

Another cost of bigotry

Chinese debt

A moral deficit

Free exchange

It’s complicated

Cheaper oil

Both symptom and balm

Science & technology

Astrobiology

Bolts from the blue

Hawking radiation

Sounds like the light idea

Planet hunting on the cheap

Sealing wax and string?

Books & arts

American politics

The great might-have-been

Germany and the euro

Ordoliberalism revisited

Education in America

Back against the blackboard

History of fashion

Nonparelli

Polish history

Shtetl of honour

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Global wealth

Markets

Obituary

Obituary: Fred Branfman