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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

The French presidency: France’s next revolution

Nigeria’s sick president: Get well soon, Mr Buhari

Red tape in America: Doing deregulation right

Indian banks: From worse to bad

Deportation: Oiling the machine

On companies, bubbles, Scotland, banking, Alabama, the green belt, time: Letters to the editor

French politics: Fractured

Regulation: Grudges and kludges

The budget: Ten-penny plan

Nuclear weapons: Assured destruction

Anti-Semitism: Past and present

Los Angeles: Dense as in smart

Lexington: Leading v cheerleading

Canada’s Conservatives: Chasing Trudeau

Peru’s disappeared: Unearthing the past

Corruption in Mexico: The backhander bus

Bello: He who pays democracy’s piper

Philippine politics: Death and taxes

North Korean assassination: VX marks the spot

Donald Trump and Afghanistan: A bitter stalemate

The politics of language in Sri Lanka: Crossed in translation

An ultranationalist kindergarten: School of shock

Hong Kong’s chief executive: Lam dunk

Anti-smog activism: Choking with fury

Banyan: The constrained dictator

Nigeria: A nation holds its breath

Water in Africa: Pay as you drink

South Africa: Hail to the chiefs

Rwanda: If you build it, they may not come

Saudi Arabia: The destruction of Mecca

Syria: Truncheons at a gunfight

Populism in Italy: A tale of two mayors

German defence: Eine deutsche Atombombe?

Russian riddles: Whispers from the Kremlin

Populism and social media: Twitter harvest

Charlemagne: Contempt of court

The NHS and social care: Paying for grandpa

The Tories and their opponents: Monarch of all she surveys

Competition and choice: Switching off and on

British banks: Better does not mean good

Divorce law: Blame game

Transgender schoolchildren: Changing rooms and beyond

Devolution in England: All politics is loco

Bagehot: The parable of Gibraltar

Deportation: Exit strategies

Health care: The wonder drug

Mobile phones: The new old thing

The woes of Uber’s boss: Road rage

Samsung: Group sacrifice

Cargo shipping: Still at sea

Business in Rwanda: Party of business

A corruption probe into Eni: Eni questions

Schumpeter: The British experiment

India’s economy: Off balance

Buttonwood: Money illusion

The LSE and Deutsche Börse: No deal?

American trade policy: Plan of action

Currency manipulation: Biting at the champs?

Moral hazard: Taken for a ride

Private-equity deals: Poised to pounce

Free exchange: An impossible mind

Palaeontology: The living was easy

Lunar spaceflight: Fly who to the Moon?

Artificial intelligence: Neighbourhood watch

Finding new antibiotics: The 48 uses of dragon’s blood

Electronics: One chip to rule them all

Violence and inequality: Apocalypse then

Wall Street: Stevie wonder

Norse mythology: Stories from the top of the world

Johnson: Lexical treasures

New fiction: Dreams and dreamers

The Academy Awards: Gleaming in the moonlight

Stanley Bard: Up in the old hotel

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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

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