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This week’s The Economist

Kal’s Cartoon
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The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week

Leaders
Geopolitics
Who can trust Trump’s America?
Brexit
Beyond the summit
Climate-change targets
Omissions
Somewhere over the rainbow
The need for speed
Banks and money-laundering
Nordic noir

Letters
On the single market, trans pupils, Eton, smart technology, the people, Boris Johnson, marijuana

Briefing
Turkey and Syria
No way to say goodbye
Kurdish homelands
No fixed abode

United States
Homelessness
Urban myths
Flourishing African languages
The other African-Americans
School hours
The bigger sleep
Private prisons
Capital punishment
Emergency preparedness
Tips for troglodytes
Lexington
The unravelling of Rudy Giuliani

The Americas
Argentina’s elections
The two faces of Peronism
Bolivia’s election
Morales’ hazard
Bello
An equatorial earthquake

Asia
Japan’s monarchy
Slave to the tortoise shell
India v China
Forced smiles
Cotton in Uzbekistan
A radical plan to abolish slave labour
Banyan
For king, if not country

China
Home schooling
Well read v well red
Chinese citizenship
Moving the goalposts
Anger in the chamber
A storm in Legco
Chaguan
Testing times for tofu

Middle East and Africa
Cyril Ramaphosa
The fuse is lit
Liberia
How convenient
Congo’s rainforest
That shrinking feeling
The Nobel peace prize
Abiy wins a medal
Tunisian politics
A new hope

Europe
Spain
Dreams and nightmares
Hungary
Orban gets the Erdogan treatment
The Nobel prize in literature
Explosive
Poland
Zlotys for tots win lots of votes
Charlemagne
Ursula’s bumpy start

Britain
Scotland
The other referendum
The Queen’s Speec
hMa’am’s manifesto
Electoral law
Identity politics
Cardinal Newman
A saint for all seasons
Economics in schools
Sample bias
Sirius Minerals
In a hole
The solo-living boom
Making room
Bagehot
The hazard at the Home Office

International
Remotest Russia and Arctic America
So near and yet so far

Business
British Airways
The world’s 19th-favourite airline
Bartleby
Just about managing
Artificial intelligence
Human-machine interface
Corporate governance
Power decouples
Medical psychedelics
Shroom to grow
Luxury goods
A tale of two handbags
Cosmetics
Looking wan
Schumpeter
The stuff paradox

Finance and economics
Danske and Swedbank
Northern blights
Buttonwood
From A-list to delist
Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy
Territorial claims
The world economy
Foggy outlook
Trade and emissions
Out of sight
Free exchange
Rich economics

Science and technology
Sustainable forestry
If you go down to the woods today
Fish scales
The mighty pirarucu
Gross national happiness
Reading between the lines
Follow my leader
Trilobites marched along
Cannabis and pregnancy
Smoked out

Books and arts
Political violence
What had to be done
Spy fiction
The enemy within
Johnson
Ill-gotten gains

Economic and financial indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail
Alcohol and health
A sober brawl

Obituary
Alexei Leonov
The blue of Earth