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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Trump and the extreme right: Unfit Britain and the European Union: Reality starts to dawn Construction: How to build more efficiently Trade: Modernising NAFTA Dual citizenship: Double happiness On populism, North Korea, childlessness, renewables, shipping, Eurocrats, bullets, Iceland, St James’s Street: Letters to the editor The solar eclipse: The dark after dawn Coming subtractions: Future eclipses Sunless solar power: Watch with care After Charlottesville: White fight The far right: Rogues’ gallery Boozing: Got to give it up Education: Can’t be asked Texas politics: A very special session The female workforce: All the working ladies Lexington: The quiet American Brazil’s economy: When will the future arrive? Newfoundland and Labrador: The moral of Muskrat Falls The Philippine economy: Populism-proof Politics in the Maldives: Palm-fringed pandemonium Dual citizenship in Australia: Double trouble Taiwan’s power supply: In the dark Sanitation in India: Missing the mark Banyan: The unfinished Partition Reviving traditional culture: Making history Labour law: Workers, disunited Destroying history: Empty, void and waste Israel’s gas conundrum: Too much of a good thing The politics of language: Stumped for words Angola’s election: Less of the same Politics in Kenya: Don’t celebrate yet A deluge of mud and death: Another tragedy for Sierra Leone Germany’s new divide: The beautiful south Reparations for Poland: Upping the ante Italian politics: Return of the crooner Serbia: Assembly required Charlemagne: A new government inspector The Brexit negotiations: Papering over the cracks The radical right: Vote Leave, lose control Exam reform: Starter for nine Mellowing on migration: What bothers Britain? Agriculture: Picking winners Chimes gone by: The Big Ben bong ban The Garden Bridge: Dumping £46m in the Thames Letter from Alphabet: The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore The construction industry: Least improved Maritime construction: Building under water An American solar spat: Dark side of the sun Business and Donald Trump: End of the affair E-sports: Play time Schumpeter: Ants in your pants Trade talks: Seconds out America’s trade with China: Lighthizer, camera, action! Chinese monetary policy: Dynastic equilibrium The Catholic church’s investments: Faith, hope and impact Sports hedge funds: Against the odds Company names: Eponymous heroes Free exchange: Always something new Externalities: The lives of others Cobots: Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with Satellites: Dusty death Combating drug addiction: An injection of hope Hormones and behaviour: Impulse power The Japanese tsunami: Death in the afternoon Memoir of ageing: Years and years Folk singing: English national anthems Shark-fishing: Deep and dark Fiction: Mountain man Award Heather Heyer: Putting things straight Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Metal prices Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)