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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Chinese politics: The world’s most powerful man British politics: Clear out the cabinet Deregulation in America: A cost-benefit analysis Iraq and Islamic State: Squandering the peace Cambodia: The man who foiled the UN On Catalonia, the American constitution, cancer, guns, Tom Petty: Letters to the editor Xi Jinping after five years: Life and soul of the party Speech on campus: The intolerant fifth Campus activists: Psyche protection Hollywood: Wein stain Inland waterways: Take me to the river California’s wildfires: Ablaze Drones: Buzzed by the fuzz Trump and the Senate: A Corker of a row Lexington: A more moral minority Canada: Trudeau’s flying unicorn hits a storm Brazil: Elections on a shoestring Reading to Cuban cigar workers: Havana lector Bello: Time to bury Che Guevara for good South Korea: Promising the Moon Celebrating Diwali: Smoke and errors Politics in Cambodia: The logical step Japan’s election campaign: Staying power The media in Myanmar: Patriotic to a fault Banyan: Land to the tiller Justice in Pakistan: More blinkered than blind Education: Salad days Aid: Rogue to vogue? South Sudan: Guns, germs and stealing American sanctions on Sudan: Not much relief about the relief Kenya’s electoral poker: Going all in The coming storm in Tehran: Raining on Iran’s parade Reconstruction in Iraq: After Islamic State Cleaning up the Middle East: Rubble trouble Catalonia and Spain: Touching the void Austrian politics: The Wunderwuzzi Turkey and America: Battle of the strongmen France’s feeble opposition: Luckier with Wauquiez? Poland: Duda’s defiance Communist nostalgia: Palace insiders Charlemagne: Breakaway blues Brexit and Theresa May’s future: Of balls, courts and no deals Europe’s other separatists: Lord, make me free—but not yet The Home Office: A crisis in waiting The public finances: Best-laid plans BAE Systems: Throttling back Micro magazines: Page-turners Bagehot: Popular capitalism, take two Trauma medicine: Damage control Deregulation in America: Trump v the rule book Manufacturing: Making it in America McKinsey in South Africa: In the eye of the storm Procter & Gamble: Close shave Kobe Steel: Base metal Smartphone security: Mind the app Schumpeter: The nuclear option Supply-chain finance: The missing link Buttonwood: The more things change Brexit and derivatives: Standing novations China’s currency: Tricky troika Financial technology in Myanmar: Passing the buck BBVA: Moving target Free exchange: Reasonable doubt Glassmaking: Gorilla tactics The rules of attraction: Best mates Better childbirth: Bugs for the system Clean energy and ecology: Flexing the mussels Military planning: The other side has a vote Myanmar and the Rohingyas: At first light the darkness fell Marriage: What goes down may come up Speech on the quad: The talking cure Vermeer: Answering the riddle Lady Lucan: In cold blood Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Global investment-banking revenue Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)