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Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Climate change: The burning question

1MDB: Falling down

American politics: The hardest deal

Italy’s constitutional reforms: A regretful No

Britain’s economy: Limited ambition

On Turkey, Brexit, GM crops, Airbnb, trade, cricket: On Turkey, Brexit, GM crops, Airbnb, trade, autism, cricket

Reforming Italy’s constitution: Renzi’s referendum

Reflating the economy: King of debt

The big gaggle: Fifth Avenue frenzy

North Carolina: Not going quietly

The next administration: Opening the field

Treasure-hunting: The box that launched 100,000 trips

The national-security team: General direction

Lexington: The dark side

Meet the attorney-general: Evening Sessions

Brazil’s prosperous south: Not the country you know

Bello: Piñata politics

Polish-Brazilians: Black soup and pierogi

Indigenous rights in Canada: Contested wilderness

Deforestation in Indonesia: For peat’s sake

Women and work in Japan: More glaring than shining

Civil society in Vietnam: Ambiguity of assembly

Australia’s natural gas: Poor credit

Banyan: The other pivot

Education: Patriotic energy v West-worshipping

China’s national parks: A farewell to loudspeakers

Counter-terrorism: The eyes in Africa’s skies

East African camels: Speedy and tasty

South Africa: Rainbow stagnation

Dissent in the Gulf: Protest and lose your passport

Libya: The unravelling

Angela Merkel declares: Not running for world saviour

German memes: Lügenpresse, a history

France’s Republican primary: Dark horse

The Baltic states and Donald Trump: Edgy allies

Charlemagne: Running scared

The Autumn Statement: The Brexit budget

Letting agencies: Rent extraction

Brexit from abroad: The views of others

Tech companies: Put out more deck chairs

Troubled prisons: I predict a riot

Land banking: Sitting on their hands

Teacher recruitment: From the boardroom to the classroom

Bagehot: Spreadsheet Phil, unlikely rebel

Climate policy: Up in smoke?

Breaking the habit: The future of oil

On the oil wagon: A tricky time for oil producers

Taken to task: How to deal with worries about stranded assets

From oiloholics to e-totallers: The coming revolution in transport

Assault on batteries: The race to move beyond lithium-ion

Doing it their way: Where India’s and China’s energy consumption is heading

Heading for the twilight: When oil is no longer in demand

The Trump Organisation: Deconstructing Donald

Samsung: Ponying up?

Facebook’s woes: The Mark of the social beast

Silicon Valley and food: Pie in the sky

Consumer goods: The riches in returns

Emirates and the A380: Flying low

Schumpeter: Status contentment

Financial regulation (1): On fire

Buttonwood: Charging the earth

Financial regulation (2): Basel bust-up

Japan’s bond market: Zero-sum game

Global wealth: The one per center next door

Currencies: Forward and backward

India’s cash crunch: Short-changed

Free exchange: Trend growth

Exoplanets: Portraits of worlds

Reactionless motors: Ye cannae break the laws of physics

Air pollution: Blown away

Scientific publishing: All together now

Scientific publishing: Award

India’s diaspora: A model minority

Publishing in India: Mythomania

Contemporary art in China: City supreme

Johnson: You tell me that it’s evolution?

Jia Jinglong: The wedding house

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