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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Russia: Putinism

The battle for Mosul: Crushing the caliphate

Business in America: Float like a butterfly

Thailand’s succession: A royal mess

Trade agreements: Asterix in Belgium

On Brexit, Bob Dylan, bonds, Donald Trump: Letters to the editor

Private Equity: The barbarian establishment

Election 2016: Hating Hillary

The third debate: Final insult

The campaigns: Heard on the trail

Election brief: Infrastructure: A view from the bridge

Lexington: How to shoot a man in Reno

Canada’s climate policy: Let the haggling begin

Bello: A model Latin American

Clowns in Cuba: The red-nosed gold rush

Informality in Latin America: Casual Mondays to Fridays

Thailand’s monarchy: An empty throne

Bhutan: Happy-grow-lucky

South Asian media: All hail

Assisted suicide in Australia: On the brink

Maternity culture in Japan: No pain, no gain

Preservation in India: Brick by brick

Banyan: Duterte’s pivot

Politics: Master of nothing

Iraq: Marching on Mosul

Jordan: The uneasy crown

Saudi Arabia’s religious police: Advice for the vice squad

South Africa: This other Eden Project

Justice in Africa: Poor law

Ukraine’s future: Bone of contention

Ukraine’s rock-star politician: Front man

Russia’s Bashneft deal: Easy sale

Italy’s Five Star Movement: Requiem for a dreamer

The Canada-EU trade deal: Hot-air Walloons

Charlemagne: Couleurs primaires

Social mobility: A class apart

Inflation: Only the beginning

Politics: Theresa’s way

Policing: The long lens of the law

Porn and protest: Obscene and not heard

Britain and the European Union: Brexit à la carte

Housebuilding: Prefabs sprout

Public inquiries: Question time

Education: Not-so-super heads

Bagehot: The spectre of Scoxit

Migration to Europe: Travelling in hope

Russia: Inside the bear

The economy: Milk without the cow

Power structures: Wheels within wheels

Foreign policy: The fog of wars

Modern life: Tell me about Joan of Arc

Past and future: Take care of Russia

Elon Musk’s empire: Countdown

Media models: Channelling Trump

Biotechnology: The trials of Juno

Retailing: Push my buttons

African airlines: Well-connected

Indian furniture makers: Turning the tables

Schumpeter: Techno wars

Government bonds: Who’s scary now?

Venezuelan government debt: Running out of time

Italian banks: Spectral forms

Buttonwood: Mutual incomprehension

Watson and financial regulation: It knows their methods

Free exchange: Subtract and divide

Making sex cells from body cells: The ancestor’s tail

Urban planning: Listen to the music of the traffic in the city

Anti-malaria drugs: Do you yield?

Exploring Mars: Triumph or disaster?

Sexual cannibalism: Nature’s cruellest one-night stand

The meaning of jihad: Men of war

Migrants: Making profits out of hope

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: A song of Africa

Latin American Modernism: A time of gifts

Fiction from Israel: Delusion chronicle

Steven Isserlis: String fellow

Dario Fo: Italy’s jester

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Commodities

Markets