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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Subatomic opportunities: Quantum leaps

Britain’s budget: Spreadsheets v politics

Stockmarkets: Bubble-spotting

Geopolitics: One China, many meanings

Food snobbery and economics: In praise of quinoa

On renewable energy, voting: Letters to the editor

The one-China policy: The great brawl of China

Democracy in America: Everything-gate

Ryancare: Medicine or poison?

Lobbying for refugees: That’s awesome

The updated travel ban: Improved, unjust

WikiLeaks, again: The spy who came in for the code

Chicago: This American carnage

Campus free speech: Blue on blue

Lexington: Fear and loathing everywhere

Brazil: An accidental, consequential president

Ethnicity in the Caribbean: Favouring curry

Bello: How to steal a country

Australia’s economy: On a chiko roll

Elections in Western Australia: Western values

Free speech in Singapore: Grumble and be damned

North Korea and Malaysia: A despot takes hostages

Pakistan: Pak on track?

Banyan: A tale of two statues

The national legislature: Caretaker of the chrysalis

Politics: Any colour, so long as it’s red

Dodging censorship: Xi, the traitor

The war against Islamic State: Caliphate at bay

Egypt’s economy: Green shoots

A port for Gaza: Preventing the next war

Cameroon: Lingua fracas

South Africa: Disgrace

The Dutch election: The populists’ dilemma

A new charter for Turkey: Me, the people

Humanitarian visas: Another way in?

Macedonia’s political crisis: Scared in Skopje

Strays in Istanbul: When fat cats are a good thing

Charlemagne: Go, speed racer, go

The budget: Calm before the storm

New taxes: Read my lips

Northern Ireland: An upset in Ulster

European Union migrants: Administrative agonies

Sport and politics: Rugby unionism

Further education: Technical upgrade

Juvenile delinquency: The kids are all right

Bagehot: Theresa May sallies forth

Grain consumption: Of rice and men

Quantum devices: Here, there and everywhere

Metrology: Sensing sensibility

Communications: Oh what entangled web we weave

Quantum computers: Cue bits

Brain scan: David Deutsch

Software: Program management

Uses: Commercial breaks

The mining business: The richest seam

Tech IPOs: Oh, Snap!

PSA buys Opel: Used carmaker

Railways: The whistle’s blowing

Rise of the micro-multinational: Chinese and overseas

New production technologies: Recasting steel

Schumpeter: Jiopolitics

The future of insurance: Counsel of protection

Peer-to-peer insurance: When life throws you lemons

Asset management: Choosing Life

Buttonwood: A port in a storm

Deutsche Bank: Blues in a different key

Trade with China: Shock horror

Global property prices: Searching for sanctuary

Green-shipping finance: Light at the end of the funnel

The Dutch economy: Who’s Nexit?

Free exchange: Borrowed time

Synthetic biology: Something’s brewing

Unmanned underwater vehicles: A clever solution

Women in research: Fairer than it was

Road accidents: Safe on taxis

Smartphone diagnostics: Pictures of health

Sexual attractiveness: My chemical romance

The future of America: Bland comfort

Social media: In praise of serendipity

Dutch fiction: Madness in words

Consciousness explained: The blind Bach-maker

Traditional Japanese theatre: Enduring power

Mostafa el-Abbadi: All the books in the world

Interactive indicators

Other markets

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist poll of forecasters, March averages

The Economist commodity-price index

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