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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon South Africa: The corruption of South Africa Ukraine: Don’t give up Tax reform: Twice bankrupt Peace in the Middle East: This year in Jerusalem The battle in AI: Giant advantage The World Trade Organisation: Disaster management On Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, carbon-dioxide emissions, bank robbers: Letters to the editor South Africa: Captured state Business in South Africa: Global firms and the Gupta connection Tax reform in context: What a difference three decades makes Public lands: Shrinking ears, smaller stairs Alabama’s special election: Less is Moore Child brides: State of the unions Foreign policy: Relative moralism Lexington: The limits of the law Honduras’s election (1): Just talking about a revolution Honduras’s election (2): Reasons to disbelieve Canada and China: The lonely Mr Trudeau Bello: A year without Fidel Caste in Indian politics: Group think Japan’s monarchy: Chrysanthemummification Australian exports to China: Purchasing powder Public transport in the Philippines: Jeep stakes Banyan: Just one begum A new branch of government: Who supervises the supervisors? Public hygiene: Labour of lavs Jerusalem: Capital gains Language in Israel: Signs of improvement Leadership in Africa: 48 shades of grey Ethiopia: Nostalgia for the Derg Arab international relations: The Gulf Backbiting Council The war in Yemen: Shaken up Turmoil in Ukraine: Revolution devolution Arms control in Europe: A treaty in peril Corruption in Turkey: Plot of gold Russia: The Siberian bitcoin rush Corsica: Drifting away Russian sports doping: Drugged, out Charlemagne: Little briar Merkel The Brexit negotiations: False summit The defence budget: Shoulder pips squeaking The drugs market: Blowing up Lower Brexpectations: Public attitudes Labour’s fortunes: Polling in an age of magical thinking Business: Dysfunctional families Bagehot: Elevator malfunction Islamic family law: Marriages of inconvenience Islamic marriage in Canada: One is enough Artificial intelligence: Battle of the brains CVS Health buys Aetna: Doses of reality Video games: Looting the punters Foreign brand names in China: Found in translation Rio Tinto: Ghost in the machine Schumpeter: Walmart fights back The World Trade Organisation: Situations vacant China at the WTO: Market failure Trade in Africa: Africa, unite! Buttonwood: Keep dancing Venezuela and oil prices: Christmas Caracas Hedge funds and artificial intelligence: Return on AI Contraceptives and girls’ education: School learning Marijuana and banking in California: From cash to ash Shareholder litigation: Laying down the law Free exchange: Paying no mind Artificial intelligence: Algorithm is gonna get you Environmental engineering: Clean-up mussel Gender in academia: Question time DNA sequencing: A genome in the hand Wise words: Books of the Year 2017 Books by Economist writers in 2017: What we wrote... Ali Abdullah Saleh: Snake-in-chief Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)