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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Facial recognition: Nowhere to hide Germany’s election: Angela’s unfinished business North Korea: Messaging the shooter America’s immigration laws: Let them stay China’s economy: Created destruction The Rohingyas: Going along with a pogrom On political Islam, Say’s Law, better buildings, Thailand’s minorities and headline-writing: Letters to the editor Angela Merkel: The livin’ is easy Immigration politics: A dream deferred Tax reform: Holiday nightmare Think-tanks: It’s conflicated Richard Posner: Gavel down Alaskan detritus: A load of rubbish Campus life: Blue on blue Lexington: Indispensable, in trouble Colombia’s peace process: Joining the party The Canadian-American border: Delay, delay, delay The big one hits: Hurricane Irma Disappearances in Argentina: Where is Santiago Maldonado? Bello: Rebuilding the radical centre The Koreas: A bomb for a bomb North Korea’s nuclear weapons: Almost there Atrocities against the Rohingyas: Scorched earth Politics in Cambodia: Closing time Bangladesh v Pakistan: East overtakes west Banyan: Sweeter than honey Politics: All the president’s men? Shopping: A turn-up for the books Kenyan politics: The rematch Liberian schools: Classroom experiments The Seychelles: Debt relief for dolphins South African politics: Getting nasty Mediterranean migrants: Stuck on shore The last Jews of Egypt: Out of the shadows Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy: Sunnis and Shias: enemies no more? Assad to their rescue: Syrian army Germany: Agenda 2021 Italy: Salute! Human-rights abuses in Turkey: Bruised and battered Turkish history: Recalling Manzikert Charlemagne: Exorcising French demons The economy: Keeping calm and carrying on North Sea oil: Wreck and roll Brexit and Parliament: Henry VIII does not rule OK Religion: Backward, Christian soldiers Reckitt Benckiser: Bang! And the bosses are gone Bell Pottinger: Scrambled in Africa Devolution: Scotland the sensible Bagehot: Spies like us Technology and financial inclusion: Underserved and overlooked Visual computing: The facial-industrial complex Toys: Fidget revolution UTC buys Rockwell: Dogfight in the skies The electricity industry’s nuclear fears: HEMP-induced anxiety India and textiles: Hanging by a thread Loyalty schemes: Forsake all others Mainland microbrews: All the beer in China Infrastructure for electric vehicles: Charge of the battery brigade Chinese industry: Great Leap Backward Buttonwood: Gone fission Insurance in America: Under water Impact investing: Of humanitarian bondage Currency markets: Fear and favour Wells Fargo: Stick in the mud Free exchange: The borrowers Facial technology (1): Keeping a straight face Facial technology (2): Making faces Fish farming: Feeding-time worries Astronomy: So long, and thanks for the postcards John le Carré: George Smiley returns. Really? The future of Asia: Brothers in arms Sport (1): On your marks, get tech Johnson: Google a photoshopped hoover Sport (2): Help for heroes Fiction: Irish song Richard Gregory: Barbed humour Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index The Economist poll of forecasters, September averages Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)