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THE ECONOMIST (May 27 - June 2, 2017)
Articles in this issue:
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
Politics this week
The marine world: Deep trouble
The Manchester bombing: Almost is never enough
Brazil: The Temer tape
Tech unicorns: Not the enemy
Reforming prisons: Jail break
On data, France, Poland, Theresa May, Silicon Valley, Donald Trump: Letters to the editor
Ocean fishing: All the fish in the sea
Reforming health care: First, do some harm
The Russia investigation: Each to his own
The budget: Zero sums
Immigration’s forgotten history: Moses in the Ozarks
Lexington: The impeachment delusion
Brazil’s political crisis (1): Dangling man
Brazil’s political crisis (2): The fabulous Batista boys
A Canadian culture war: Cross-fertilisation or theft?
Bello: Welcome back, Argentina
India’s Kashmir problem: Talking to the enemy
The South China Sea: Shoals apart
Insurgency in the Philippines: Marauding in Marawi
Post-tsunami reconstruction in Japan: Repopulating Fukushima
Banyan: The shrinking monarchy
Provincial politics: A hand up for Xi’s people
Espionage: Spy kids
Dolphins: Pink and imperilled
Donald Trump visits the Middle East: Mission not accomplished
Iran’s election: Triumph of the liberals
Islamic State in Libya: Down but not out
Kenya: The last dance
Eritrea and migration: The road less taken
Writer wanted
Ukraine’s stalemate: Theatre of war
Fighting corruption in Ukraine: Harsh medicine
Greece’s debt odyssey: No relief
Czech politics: Paper tiger
Optimism in France: Yes, oui can
Charlemagne: The terrible trio
Terrorism: After the bomb, the hunt
Social care: The four-day manifesto
Human rights and Europe: Opting to Remain
The election in Northern Ireland: Alliance seeks a third way
Voting: Turn on, tune in, turn out?
Online campaigning: A fresh canvass
The campaigns: Speakers’ Corner
Bagehot: The two Theresas
Prisons: Turning villains into neighbours
Women in prison: Girls, incarcerated
Airbnb: A different breed of unicorn
Ford: Can he Hackett?
SoftBank: A vision of $93bn
Netflix: Curtain call
Collectables: Sole trading
The chemicals industry: Chain reaction
Schumpeter: General Eclectic
Stockpicking: Quants and the quirks
Buttonwood: Bumper buy-backs
Africa-EU trade: Blown off course
Noble Group: Damsel in distress
Foreign-exchange trading: Be good, or else
Tax evasion: An ORSome wheeze
The bitcoin bubble: One bitcoin is worth twice as much as an ounce of gold
Machine-learning in finance: Unshackled algorithms
Free exchange: Looking east
Internship
Aviation: The towers vanish
Sexual competition: Careful where you put that thing
Fingerprints for paper: Shining a light
Synthetic biology: Lights, bacteria, action
High-tech weaponry: Follow the leader
Information technology: Truth, all the truth—and statistics
The future of globalisation: Negative reaction
Disease in history: One hundred million dead
Johnson: Translators’ blues
Fiction: A gleam in the darkness
Television: The next chapter on the screen
Roger Ailes: The man for the message
Interactive indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Africa
Markets