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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon War with North Korea: It could happen America’s president and the Republicans: No deal French reforms: Keep your nerve Politics in Pakistan: Third time unlucky Housing in Britain: Rooms for improvement On Qatar, travel, English, France, Ronald Reagan, the young old: Letters to the editor North Korea’s missiles: Testing, testing… War in Korea: Red lines and bad choices The revolving White House door: Though Mooch is taken, Mooch abides Tax cuts: Don’t hold your breath College admissions: POTUS v Harvard Maternal deaths: A painful puzzle Media matters: Fox populi Gangs and immigration: A horrible MS Lexington: A Republican senator revolts Venezuela: A deadly blow to democracy Brazil: Round One to the president Latin American media: Entering the morgue Bello: Venezuela’s fantasy voting Politics in Pakistan: A Nawaz-shaped hole Elections in Papua New Guinea: Continuity, not stability Politics in India: Gobble them up The Philippines’ war on drugs: Narco-consternation The armed forces: Shrinking and flexing Waste management: Anti-dumping Kenya: The rematch Urban redevelopment in South Africa: Reclaiming hijacked buildings Nigerian verbosity: Get the gist? Israeli entertainment: Carrie on watching Climate change and the Nile: Flood and famine Sanctions on Russia: The punishment continues American-Russian relations: Arming Ukraine The migrants Poland likes: Plugging the gap Urban planning in France: We’ll always have Val d’Europe Charlemagne: Deutschland is dozing Housing: A nation of homebodies Tories and housing: March of the YIMBYs Brexit contingency planning: The sucking sound London investment: Reach for the skyscraper University pensions: Mind the gap The Ahmadis: The Muslim Glastonbury Northern Ireland and the Middle East: Proxy wars Social-impact bonds: Positive bonding experiences Bagehot: A history lesson Transport: The price of jam Privatisation in France: National treasures Discovery and Scripps: Fuzzy signal Drug firms: Pharma frenemies China’s grand project: Where the twain shall meet European productivity: Le long layoff Schumpeter: King Kong Phoenix economies: When the news gets better Buttonwood: Money for nothing Private equity: Secondary education Interest rates: LIBOR pains Bitcoin’s civil war: Knives and forks DNA and insurance: The gene is out of the bottle Human capital: The people’s champion Genetic engineering: DNA and how to adjust it Holograms: Winging the blues Paying for conservation: A wild idea Natural history: Crucibles of cosmopolitan creation Fiction: Strength and protection Expenditure among the affluent: How to spend it Johnson: Game of tongues Dr G. Yunupingu: Singing the land Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Manufacturing activity Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)