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Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

The multinational company: In retreat

Venezuela: It’s a mad, mad, mad, Maduro world

America’s trade with China: Jaw, jaw

Private schools in poor countries: Tablets of learning

Family life in Russia: Empowering the vilest malefactors

On assisted suicide, John Calvin, languages, calendars, the Normans: Letters to the editor

Multinationals: The retreat of the global company

Donald Trump in office: Trust me, I’m the president

Abortion policy: Gag reflex

Pipelines: On a war footing

Replacing Obamacare: High risk by name

Subsidising professional sports: If you fund it, they may come

Schools: Teaching economics

Colleges and inequality: Skipping class

Lexington: The Herbal Tea Party

Venezuela: Maduro’s dance of disaster

Bello: Death of a justice

Mexico and the United States: Pistols drawn

Sport in Argentina: Football for nobody

The South China Sea: Own shoal

Politics in Malaysia: Regal trouble

Censorship in South Korea: The new black

Indigenous Australians: Ministering to his own

The race for governor in Jakarta: Demolition in progress

Banyan: Goring the law

Mental illness: Ending the shame

Lunar new year: Rooster boosters

Syria’s peace talks: Time for someone else to have a go

Arab politics: Who can unblock Morocco?

Israel: Unsettled

Gambia: No Jammeh tomorrow

Air travel: Nigeria makes its capital a no-fly zone

Inheritance in Zimbabwe: Why widows get evicted

Germany’s Social Democrats: A slim chance of being chancellor

The Koblenz “counter-summit”: We are the alt-world

Italian politics: Matteo Renzi’s rush to elections

France’s presidential election: In the pink

Wife-beating in Russia: Putin’s family values

Charlemagne: Please Mr Erdogan

Local government: Running on empty

Brexit and Article 50: Supreme judgment

Sinn Fein: A new sort of leader

Industrial strategy: Less is more

Teaching clever children: Russian lessons

Business after Brexit: Leave or Remain?

A property boom in the Shetland Islands: Heading north

Bagehot: A difficult hole

Muslim head coverings: What not to wear

Headscarves in Turkey: Under cover

Bridge International Academies: Assembly line

Formula One: Bye-bye, Bernie

Political dating websites: Making America date again

Qualcomm: Until the patents squeak

Food retailing: The big McCustomisation

How to build a nuclear-power plant: Nuclear options

Schumpeter: Overnight sensation

Sino-American trade: Rules of engagement

The trade-war scenario: Apocalypse now

Dublin as a financial centre: Emerald aisles

Buttonwood: Letting go

Student loans: Grading education

Aid and migrant labour: Ticket to pride

Chinese economic data: Potemkin province

Reinsurance: Daddy long tail

Free exchange: Mad maximum

Physics: Small is still beautiful

The academy and the marketplace: Mathematical transformations

Vehicle engine management: Intelligence test

Regenerative medicine: A tissue of truths

The roots of modern resentment: Enlightenment and its discontents

Istanbul: Where the past is not dead

New fiction: A man in full

Politics and sentiment: Utopia of reason

Sundance: An inconvenient moment

Arthur Manuel: Unsettling

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Perceptions of corruption

Markets