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Articles in this issue:
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Taxation: Stuck in the past
Democracy in America: Sign me up
Brazilian politics: Brasília, we have a problem
Foreign direct investment: Prudence not protectionism
Education: Down with summer holidays
On Germany, Adam Smith, the Moon, Democrats, conscription, Norway, George Costanza: Letters to the editor
Land-value tax: On firmer ground
Cities and development: Build, baby, build
Traffic: Jammed up
Voter purges: On election day, stay away
Poverty: Going, going... not gone
Haulage: Keep on trucking
Lexington: Storming Trump Tower
Brazilian politics: The plot thickens
Colombia: A windy start
Bello: The perils of Nicolás Maduro
Student protests in Bangladesh: High-school vigilantes
Tourism in Indonesia: Build, and they shall come
An Antipodean tiff: Kicking Kiwis out
Discrimination against women in Japan: Toxic test-doctoring
Polishing Narendra Modi: The image factory
Chinese politics: On the Xi side, beside the sea
Ai Weiwei’s studio is demolished: Bulldozed in Beijing
America and Iran: The pain of no deal
Jerusalem’s holy sites: Beware of falling rocks
Canada and Saudi Arabia: Meddlesome maple leaves
Zimbabwe after the election: Open for chaos
Mozambique: Burnings and beheadings
Congo: Say it’s so, Joe
Turkey: How low can it go?
Germany: The right hand talks to the left hand
Poland: Buying back the family silver
The French and trains: Exodus
Charlemagne: Street politics
The Labour Party: The surreal strength of Jeremy Corbyn’s party
Welfare policy: Poor economics
Brexit in the Caribbean: Beaches and borders
Brexit and public opinion: No confidence
English schools: In, out, in, out
London’s Koreatown: Peninsula politics
Bagehot: Land of extremes
Summer holidays: School’s out
Summer camps: Mutually assured distraction
Chinese investment in Silicon Valley: Cheques and balances
Bartleby: Time to get in training
Chinese tech firms: Enigma variations
Energy: Too much in the tank
Coolfizzin’: PepsiCo under Indra Nooyi
Tesla and the markets: Beckoning the barbarians
Danone and the rise of B Corporations: Choosing plan B
Schumpeter: How to save it
Trade war (1): Is China losing it?
Trade war (2): Metal clashing
Fund management: Fama and fortune
Prediction markets: Collective oracle
Property prices: Housing correction
Buttonwood: Triple-B movie
Free exchange: Mangonomics
Alexis de Tocqueville: The French exception
Underwater senses: Navy seals
Aerospace: A breath of fresh air
Astronomy: Set the controls for a part of the sun
Wild medicine: Scratching an itch
Egypt after the revolution: Brothers, generals and suckers
The story of opium: High and mighty
Icelandic fiction: An isle full of noises
Imagining nuclear war: Under a mushroom cloud
Young people in India: Dreams and nightmares
Luc Nkulula: Under the volcano
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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages
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