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Articles in this issue: The world this week KAL’s cartoon China and America: Poles apart America, Iran and Iraq: Undeterred Renault-Nissan: Fled to the Med Brazil: A year of governing dangerously Criminal justice: How to reduce rape Letters to the editor: On carbon capture, health care, rats, conservation, Joe Biden Chinese students in America: The new red scare Suburbs: Laboratories of democracy Sex education in Texas schools: TexEd Romance novelists: The wrong kind of racy The decline of Vegas weddings: Crying in the chapel Lexington: Pete Buttigieg heads South A year of Jair Bolsonaro: Please don’t let me be misunderstood Colombia: Not so fast Justice in Japan: Ghosn, going, gone Fires in Australia: The summer inferno Election tension in Taiwan: The China factor Who’s an Indian citizen?: Papers, please Banyan: Restoring order China’s view of America: 400-pound rivals Journalist wanted America, Iran and Iraq: Combustible Countering Iran: Neighbourhood watch The end of the CFA: Francly speaking Algeria: Hoping for a cheerier Algeria The Rand Club: Rhodes to redemption Education in Liberia: Schools of hard knocks Germany: From protest to power Campione d’Italia: Unhappy recruit Joblessness in the EU: Steady state Charlemagne: Huntington’s disease Reshaping the state: The Cummings plan Darts: Bull market Bagehot: One nation under Boris Sexual assault: Her word against his Chinese technology: From the people who brought you fireworks... Success stories: Reactors and railways Cars: Electric leapfrog Intellectual property: Laser brain Data: A new trinity Microprocessors: From bottom to top The future: Of coupling and decoupling American firms in China: Still worth it LG: Life’s not good enough Entertainment: Thank you for the music Bartleby: A manager’s manifesto Schumpeter: Cloning Tesla The stockmarket: Christmas bonus The World Trade Organisation: What’s the catch? Digital banking in South-East Asia: Up for Grab Minimum wages: Who pays? Buttonwood: Feeling TIPSy Free exchange: Planned obsolescence Physics: Assembling the future The Richard Casement internship Ostracism: And stay out Vanished worlds: Writing wrongs Johnson: Climate-speak Economic data, commodities and markets Predicting 2020: What are the odds? Yuri Luzhkov: Tearing down the past Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)