The Economist [Fri, 01 Jun 2018] by calibre instant download
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Technology and surveillance: Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West?
America and immigrants: A cruel and unusual border policy
Just say know: Festival drug-testing shows a way to reduce harm
Road safety: France’s contentious speed-limit reduction is a model for others
Panic, but not yet: Italy needs to be handled with care
Letters: Letters to the editor
Apartheid with Chinese characteristics: China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other
Reach for the sky: Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?
A fine balance: California considers taking custody of some street people
Counting Puerto Rico’s dead: Eight months after Hurricane Maria, the human toll is still unclear
Seeking the perfect prescription: Some good news from the fight against opioids
Suffer the children: American border officials are separating migrant families
Self-immolation: Racist tweets from Roseanne spur ABC to cancel “Roseanne”
Lexington: John Bolton, the world’s hope
An object lesson: Mexico’s crucial education reform risks being unwound
A river runs through it: An expiring treaty will test the health of Canadian-American relations
A clean sweep: The opposition wins every seat in the Barbados Parliament
A strike against the system: Brazil reinstates fuel subsidies after a disruptive lorry strike
All aboard the peace train, again: Detente between America and North Korea seems back on track
A trip down fantasy lane: A historical soap reveals a lot about modern Thai politics
So long, hipster havens: Singapore’s Brutalist past could soon be gone
Banyan: People in India often despair of their democracy
Bootstrapping a backwater: One of China’s poorest provinces wants to be a tech hub
A web of silk: China talks of building a “digital Silk Road”
Too hot to handle: Climate change is making the Arab world more miserable
The balancing bear: Russia struggles to balance between Israel and Iran
A Ramadan viewing guide: Egypt’s bumbling police get their man, at least on television
Extending the safety-net in Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s scheme to help the poor is setting an example
Fighting talk: Repression is worsening in Cameroon amid an uprising over language
Fast funerals in Conakry: Why hearses sport sirens and lights in Guinea
Matteo Salvini’s quest for power: Political chaos in Italy as new elections beckon
Taking it easy: Uproar over new speed limits on French country roads
Neap tide: France’s strikes may now be starting to ebb
A modern country: Ireland votes solidly to allow abortion
Wind in their sails: Turkey’s opposition scents success against Erdogan
Charlemagne: Beneath the paving stones: The legacy of Germany’s student protests in 1968
The new safety net: Britain’s switch to a “universal credit” is not going well
Non-identical twins: Ireland’s abortion vote sparks calls for change in Northern Ireland
The wrong sort of “Global Britain”: Tommy Robinson’s sentence shows how hate has gone global
Big little ones: As rich children slim down, poor ones are getting fatter
More yin than yang: Europe’s oldest Chinatown fights for survival
Rum, strategy and the cash: Britain’s Royal Navy has big ambitions—but a small budget
Bagehot: Last orders for political drinking
Faith, hope and clarity: Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?
Marginal utilitarianism: To help save the world, become a banker not a doctor
I know what you’ll do next summer: Increased amounts of data and surveillance are transforming justice systems
Walls have eyes: It is hard now to avoid street-level surveillance
Read my phone: Police can bypass encryption and monitor anything
Home, home within range: Electronic monitoring is a different approach to jail
Algorithm blues: The promise and peril of big-data justice
Watching the detectives: Rigorous oversight is essential to check police activity
Into the danger zone: American tech giants are making life tough for startups
Bartleby: Are you stuck in a “bullshit job”?
Copper bottom: Shootings in India tarnish Vedanta’s reputation
Steeling itself: Activist investors go after a German industrial icon
Wizz on the up: A Hungarian startup could beat Ryanair at its own low-cost game
There can be only one: Comcast and Disney battle over Rupert Murdoch’s empire
A new leaf: HEYTEA wants to make tea-drinking cool again in China
Schumpeter: Six muddles about share buy-backs
Tragedy or farce?: Italy’s political crisis is roiling financial markets once more
Rebuilding the ruins: A critical task for the Greek economy enters a new phase
Turkish baroque: Turkey’s central bank has streamlined its fight against inflation
Puzzle pieces: There is madness, but perhaps also method, in America’s trade policies
Small is beautiful: The number of new banks in America has fallen off a cliff
Buttonwood: Lessons from Las Vegas: In investing, as in poker, following rules works best
A worn-out trade deal: Rwanda refuses to remove tariffs on imports of used clothing
Free exchange: Power is money: If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
Evolution: A history of big-headedness
Conservation: Australia’s coral barrier reef keeps dying and coming back
The sunk-cost fallacy: Another’s wasted investment is as disturbing as one’s own
AIDS: HIV+ volunteers are bequeathing their organs to a new project
Munching into orbit: A rocket that devours itself
We and us: An eerie dystopian prophecy by a disillusioned Bolshevik
In the shadows of war: In “Warlight” Michael Ondaatje explores the murky aftermath of conflict
Ghosts in the machine: Retro photography is in vogue
Blood money: The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, Silicon Valley’s startup queen
Better to have loved: Dispatches from the border between madness and desire
Treating a mystery disease: Lina Puthussery died of the Nipah virus on May 21st
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