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Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Regulating the data economy: The world’s most valuable resource

Brexit and Britain’s election: Strong, stable—and short on detail

France’s election: Don’t discount Marine Le Pen

South Korea: Moon mission?

Synthetic biology: Breaking free from cells

On Japan, public land, Germany, North Korea, India, knots, “The Goodies”: Letters to the editor

The data economy: Fuel of the future

Health care: Political self-amputation

Innovative cities: Night time turned into day

Immigration enforcement: Cities under siege

The law in Texas: No refuge

The Supreme Court: Man in the middle

Transport in New York: On the wrong track

School vouchers: Going public

Lexington: Constant foe, fickle friend

Venezuela: It’s up to the army

Cannabis in Uruguay: Chemists v criminals

Canada: Parles-tu québécois?

Bello: Can the centre hold?

South Korean politics: Post-Park life

Japanese politics: On the offensive

Timor-Leste: Wake up and sell the coffee

Food in Pakistan: Stepping up to the plate

Banyan: Back from the dead

The new silk route (1): All aboard the belt-and-road express

The new silk route (2): One belt, one roadblock

A cotton boll’s journey: From shrub to shirt to shelf

South Africa: Bury him, praise yourself

Egypt: Judgment day

America, Israel and the Palestinians: Movement, but any change?

The state of Arab men: Down and out in Cairo and Beirut

France’s presidential election: The rage against Macron

German politics: Angie’s army

Turkey and Russia cosy up: Brothers in arms

The Eurovision song contest: War music

Housing in Russia: A new kind of revolution

Charlemagne: The parable of Amiens

The European Union and the election: When Brussels spouts

Explosive appointment: Election art

Euratom: The nuclear cliff-edge

The campaigns: Speakers’ Corner

London and the election: Another country

The productivity puzzle: Eggs in one basket

Prisons: Chinks of light

The elderly vote: Grey to blue

Bagehot: One nation under May

Aid and the private sector: Doing good, doing well

International banking: Ten years on

A brief history of the crisis: When the music stopped

European banks: Sheep and goats

American banks: After Dodd-Frank

International regulation: Bother over Basel

Financial technology: Friends or foes?

Recruitment: The millennial problem

The next crisis: How safe are banks?

Sports on TV: Still the champion?

Alphabet v Uber: No brakes

The pharma industry: Hard to swallow

Ride-hailing in Saudi Arabia: Taken for a ride

Animal waste: Burning the fat

The newspaper business: Metamorphosis

Street food: Rules of the road

Schumpeter: From great to good

Chinese investors: The Buffetts of China

Buttonwood: Cape Fear

Government debt: Taking the ultra-long view

Puerto Rico’s finances: To be resolved

Illegal-wildlife trade: On the horns

Car finance in America and Britain: Subprime, anyone?

The euro-area economy: Speeding up

Free exchange: Algorithms and antitrust

Biotechnology: Primordial gloop

The fight against AIDS: Safer sex

Pollutants: Fatal attraction

Conservation: Big is beautiful

Theatre: All the world’s a stage

Islamic state: Children of jihad

The revival of cities: Back from the brink

Collecting: Calling all art lovers

Fiction from Congo: Africa’s Samuel Beckett

Tribeca film festival: An offering you can’t refuse

Clarification: Option B

Albert Freedman: That’s entertainment

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages

Markets