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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Natural disasters: How to cope with floods Corruption in Latin America: More tragedy than comedy North Korea’s nuclear provocations: Stand by Japan Protein-rich diets: Feed as well as food Traditional Chinese medicine: State-sponsored quackery On electric cars, the Confederacy, puns: Letters to the editor Flooding: Submerged India and Bangladesh: Hard hit The chances of disaster: Frequency modulation The new political term: Back to school Lobbyists: Washington wizards The states and Obamacare: Over to you Health-care costs: How to twist an arm Arizona politics: Beg your pardon Police militarisation: Arms race Government statistics: Count down Lexington: Mr Trump’s history lessons Corruption in Guatemala: If you elect a clown, expect a circus Bello: A human scrapheap Japan and North Korea: Shooting over Japan’s head Myanmar’s Rohingyas: Gory days Law in India: Courage in their convictions Thai politics: Another coup for the generals Banyan: An American wrecking-ball? Traditional Chinese medicine: Health care with Chinese characteristics Islamic State: Lowering the black flag After the caliphate: The next scramble Oman and the Qatar crisis: A port in the storm Angola and Congo: A tale of two kleptocracies Public housing in Ethiopia: Not for the poor anymore Grasscutters: The challenge of raising rats Turks in Europe: Home and away Germany’s Free Democrats: Return of the yuppies Dutch families: Three’s company Rural France: Into the trees Football: A league of their own Higher education: A costly mistake Sterling and foreign trade: The ice-cream economy In search of new markets: Not so big in Japan Brexit negotiations: Break-up blues Scottish Labour: Situation vacant A cartoonist’s assassination: Blood and ink Bagehot: May v the managers Indentured labour: 100 years since servitude Cargill: Middleman to the world Uber’s next chapter: Self-driving no longer Naspers: A dime’s worth Co-living models: Rent collective Schumpeter: The parable of St Paul India’s economy: Drifting apart Buttonwood: Getting the long term right Indian demonetisation: Paint it white The North American Free-Trade Agreement: Having a domestic International litigation: Courtly competition Russian banking: Too close to the sun Free exchange: An offer we can’t refuse Overlapping generations: Kicking the can down an endless road Quantum cryptography in space: The early bird Cancer: Pop! Medicine: Heart of the matter How plesiosaurs swam: In a flap Mikhail Gorbachev: The story of a good Soviet man Paul Samuelson: Practical theorist Diary-writers: Men, pen and ink Essays: Leaves turning “Bake Off”: Let them bake cakes Wayne Lotter: The ivory game Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Trade-weighted exchange rates Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)