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Articles in this issue:

Politics

Business

KAL's cartoon

Britain and the European Union: The negotiator

The White House: Frustration

Coal’s decline: Sunlight over soot

Myanmar: A hero disappoints

Economic policy: Friction lovers

On Scoxit, domino theory, quantum physics, refugees, inequality, apostrophes: Letters to the editor

America’s checks and balances: Constrained?

Tax reform: The red and the brown

Farming in the Midwest: Rhyme time

Environmental policy: Down and dirty

College protests: Bicker warning

Trump and Russia: Never-ending story

Lexington: Now for the hard part

Cuba: Stuck in the past

Canada’s new rules of war: When to shoot a child soldier

Bello: Upgrading Brazil’s political class

Myanmar: Governing in prose

Jihadists in Bangladesh: Fighting a hydra

Political freedom in Singapore: No place for the crass

Suicide in India: A break for the despairing

Politics in South Korea: Moon also rises

China and America: Tortoise v hare

Banyan: Lovin’ Hong Kong

Famine stalks Africa and Yemen: The third horseman returns

Islamic State: Mine enemy

Israel: Prime minister v pundits

Egypt and America: Loved up

Protests in Russia: The young and the restless

Portugal’s recovery: Growing out of it

Foreign policy in France’s election: Beyond the Hexagon

Slovakia’s political mystery: Family drama

Charlemagne: Pivot towards Tokyo

Britain and the European Union: A race against time

The UK Independence Party: And then there were none

Labour v capital: Justice in an age of austerity

British Airways on a budget: Of sandwiches and Percy Pigs

Birmingham’s Muslims: In the eye of the storm

Home-grown terrorism: Zeal of the convert

Bagehot: What would Walter say?

The war on poverty: Fewer, but still with us

High-end retailing: Lux in flux

Swiss watchmakers: Wound up

Indian education: Cramville

Scott Gottlieb and the FDA: Drug of choice

Internet advertising: Advalanche

Nuclear power: Fallout

Schumpeter: Sonic boom

Chinese-American economic ties: The silk-silver axis

Free exchange: Remember the mane

Energy in Asia: Canary in the coal mine

Buttonwood: Repent at leisure

Equity research: Breaking up is hard to do

Italy’s bad debts: Cleaning up

Indonesia’s tax amnesty: A small price to pay

The market for sand: A shore thing

Brains and computers: We can remember it for you wholesale

Biomedical engineering: Moving moments

Detecting chemical weapons: Laying a glove on it

Global air pollution: Trading in mortality

Bird brains and traffic accidents: Small is not beautiful

Vaccines: Taking stock

Faith and tradition in China: Pilgrims through this barren land

Sexual selection: Gender fluidity

New fiction: Heady stuff

David Jones, painter-poet: Modernist man

Classical music: An elegant primer

Johnson: Everybody has their opinion

Derek Walcott: Songs of the sea

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

World GDP

Markets