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This week’s The Economist

Kal’s Cartoon
In the product

The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week

Leaders
French politics
Macron’s nightmare
British politics
The best way out of the Brexit mess
Ethiopia
Liberty and disintegration
Pollution in India
Dirty work
Low-Earth-orbit satellites
Round and round they go

Letters

Briefing
Internet connectivity
A worldwide web in space

United States
The Russia investigation
Mueller, she wrote
Conservative media
Lowering the Standard
Work
Shifting shifts
Voting patterns
The mid-term autopsy
Election fraud
Scale, meet thumb
Political thinking
The partisan brain
Lexington
Trump and Pakistan

The Americas
Violence in Central America
Calm like a bomb
Cuba
Private, owned
Bello
Once more, with feeling

Asia
The environment in India
Poison all around
Free speech in Thailand
A lament for democracy
Feminism in South Korea
Angry young women
Banyan
Self-harming Liberals

China
The anniversary of reform
Seeking salvation
Chaguan
What’s love got to do with it?

Middle East and Africa
Democracy in Africa
A colourful revolution
Conflict in the Gulf
NOPEC
The gig economy
Goats to go

Europe
France
La République en Flammes
Spanish politics
Exceptional no more
A profile of Mikhail Fridman
The tribulations of an oligarch
Euro-zone reforms
Gang of eight
Charlemagne
UNbelievable

Britain
Brexit and Parliament
The consequences of saying no
A People’s Vote
Second time lucky
The markets
Not your bully
Northern Irish politics
Please surrender
Islam in Britain
Taking on the old guard
Britain’s newest families
Their boat comes in
Transport megaprojects
Going off track
Bagehot
Prize idiots

International
Genocide prevention
Never again, again and again

Business
The IT industry
The opening Dell
Bartleby
The gospel according to Paul
Nautilus
Deep trouble
Oil majors
Staring down the barrel
Digital taxation
A tech-taxing tangle
Underwear
Going for bust
Pharmaceutical mergers
Kill or cure?
Schumpeter
State your business

Finance and economics
US-China trade
Peace in our time
North American trade
Foul play
The euro-zone economy
Keeping the faith
Danske Bank
Legitimise this
Buttonwood
Beneath the spreadsheets
Uranium trading
U-turn
Consumer fraud
Conning Honest John
China’s economy
Woolly thinking
Free exchange
Future lives matter

Science and technology
Autism
Gut feelings
Hello to Bennu
Sampling an asteroid
Eradicating polio
Stalled
The composition of the universe
Still in the dark

Books and arts
Belgium’s Africa Museum
The burden of history
Somali fiction
Home fires
Artificial intelligence in the ancient world
From Talos to “Terminator”
Roman history
To bury, not to praise
Johnson
Signs of the times

Economic and financial indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail
Flight prices
Prepare for landing

Obituary
George H.W. Bush
Doing his darnedest