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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Globalisation’s losers: Left behind Argentina: Breaking Peronism’s spell Battle for Kirkuk: The next war in Iraq Rohingya refugees: No respite Workplace harassment: Sex and power On Italy, the “right to repair”, China, racism, the comma, Hugh Hefner: Letters to the editor Left-behind places: In the lurch Health care: Unsurance Puerto Rico: Be PREPA-ed Disaster relief: But who did they vote for? Innovative justice: Oxy-courting Campaign adverts: MS-13 ways to leave your values The rise of rich governors: The yacht primary Lexington: The elephant forgets Argentina: Ready for his close-up Venezuela: Divide and rule Bello: The virtue of equatorial Leninism The Rohingyas: Life in limbo Muslim militants in the Philippines: At last Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election: Apparatchik ascendant Japan’s election campaign: Abandoning hope Murderous superstition in India: Witch? Politics: Xi’s thought, unveiled Recycling: Quick and dirty Banyan: Occupying minds Journalist wanted After the caliphate: Dashed Kurdish dreams Kurds after the caliphate: To the victors, the toils Qatar and its neighbours: Economic Gulf Tanzania’s descent into autocracy: The dinosaur of Dodoma Save the cycads!: The loneliest plant on Earth Spain’s constitutional crisis: Grappling on the brink Maltese corruption: Murder in paradise Georgia and Abkhazia: Nutella standoff France’s next reforms: Just a trim Russia’s presidential election: Partisan campaign Charlemagne: The kid goes all right Labour’s plans: Jeremy Corbyn’s model town Welfare reform: Discredited Brexit delusions: Nightmares and dreamscapes Supply chains: Made in Britain London transport: Busman’s holiday The energy market: Is it broken? Bagehot: Bagehot v Brexit Sexual harassment at work: An open secret IBM’s tricky transformation: Big blue yonder Aircraft manufacturers: Protection racket Saudi Aramco’s IPO: My kingdom for a bourse The Weinstein Company: Into the frame Indian aviation: Winging it Lotte exits China: Thaad’s all, folks Schumpeter: Reality distortion field Renegotiating NAFTA: Preparing for the worst Buttonwood: A taxing problem South Africa’s biggest asset manager: PIC apart Job tenure: Staying put Chinese finance: Failing state Development banks: How green is my value? Counterfactual underwriting: Might-have-beens Free exchange: The low road Artificial intelligence: Going places Palaeoclimatology: A stormy past Observing the cosmos: When stars collide Britain and Europe: Hard or soft Brexit? Philip Pullman’s new novel: Open unto the fields, and to the sky British empire history: Food and fate Herbert Hoover: A devil to sup with Bruce Springsteen: Belts it out Johnson: Value from the vulgar tongue Joseph Schmitt: The last of Earth Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Britain's economy Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)