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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL’s cartoon

The world economy: Markets in an Age of Anxiety

Nuclear doctrine: Finger on the button

Civil liberties: Speak up

Rising seas: A world without beaches

Zimbabwe: Land of hope and worry

Letters to the editor: On the teaching of history

The rising seas: Higher tide

Nuclear weapons: You first

The Democratic primary: Among the 1%

Drug markets: Legal and rarer

Trading water: A liquid market

Co-pay charities: Generous to a fault

Lexington: Bernie’s permanent revolution

Argentina’s election: The bonds that tie

Guatemala’s election: “Sufficient testosterone”

Security in Afghanistan: Exit strategy

Civil rights in Kashmir: An area of darkness

Kyrgyzstan: When presidents fall out

Javanese royalty: Sour about a sultana

Turmoil in Hong Kong: Airport mayhem

Social media: Daka destinations

Chaguan: The “black hands” conspiracy

Zimbabwe’s crisis: Parched and pillaged

Gabon: A scam too far

Poverty in Rwanda: The devil in the details

Yemen: The war within the war

Education in Morocco: Quel est le problème?

Turkey: When a caliphate collapses

Italy: Matteo Salvini makes his move

Russia: Not going away

Germany’s economy: Ground to a halt

Housing in the Baltics: Soviet blocks

Charlemagne: The book of BoJo

Railways: Getting back on track

High Speed 2: A speed bump

Fashion retail: Owning it

Housing and politics: The Conservative catch-22

Brexit and the constitution: A right royal mess

Higher education: Under examination

Football and feuds: Of goons and Gooners

Free speech: The new censors

Business in India: Modi blues

Saudi Aramco: Tap dance

Chinese technology firms: Stuck in the Middle Kingdom

Media mergers: Together again

WeWork’s IPO: Risky business

Schumpeter: The FredEx conundrum

The trade war and America’s economy: Under attack

Financial markets: The new commonplace

Britain’s economy: Deep freeze

1MDB: And then there were seventeen

Bond insurers: Bad wrap

Adapting to climate change: Costing the earth

Microfinance in Sri Lanka: Distress signals

Free exchange: Into the woods

Fooling Big Brother: Face off

Nuclear propulsion: Chernobyl with wings

Ebola: Hope

Animal behaviour: P-P-Pick up a penguin

Espionage fiction: Spies like us

Cold-war summitry: Dancing on ice

Music and morals in America: Boogie nights

Magical realism: Ghost train

Economic data, commodities and markets

Afghanistan: Prisoners of war

Toni Morrison: In her magnificence

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