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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

A Trump White House: The 45th president

African politics: A dismal dynast

Britain and the European Union: A hard road

Regulating car emissions: Road outrage

The legacy of gendercide: Too many single men

Letters to the Editor: On Theresa May, the split infinitive, Disney, missiles, tax, steel, India's demonetisation, Flashman

The Trump administration: A helluva handover

Peter Navarro: Free-trader turned game-changer

Emboldened states: California steaming

Women’s rights: March nemesis

Asian-American voters: Bull in a China shop

Chelsea Manning: The long commute

Lexington: History lessons

El Salvador: Unhappy anniversary

Argentina: Tango in trouble

Cuban migrants: Special no more

Chinese influence in South-East Asia: The giant’s client

Education in Thailand: Not rocket science

Street vendors in Mumbai: Stabbed in the snack

Politics in Australia: Going for gold

Pakistan’s economy: Roads to nowhere

China and the world: The new Davos man

The navy: Deep blue ambition

Banyan: Dangling forbidden pleasures

The African Union: Ex factor

Farming in Ethiopia and Kenya: Qatnip

Default in paradise: Boats and a scandal

Bahrain: An unhappy isle

Terrorism in Tunisia: Jihadis come home

Turkey’s all-powerful president: Iron constitution

Emigration in eastern Europe: The old countries

The European Parliament: A shift to the right

Reform in Russia: Listen, liberal

Russian propaganda: Putin’s prevaricating puppets

Charlemagne: Looking hairy

Brexit: Doing it the hard way

Trade with America: The art of the deal

Northern Ireland: Polls apart

The National Health Service: Don’t carry on, doctor

Museums: Changing the guard

Regeneration through culture: Larkin around

Ill-gotten gains: Scrounging for coppers

Bagehot: Let the work permits flow

Sex selection: Boy trouble

Prizing girls: Like father, like daughter

Cigarette companies: Plucky strike

Fiat Chrysler: Gas puzzlers

Samsung: Heir of disapproval

French and Italian firms: Into the frame

Rolls-Royce: Weathering the storm

Information technology: Reboot

Tata Sons: Chandra’s challenge

Schumpeter: Six sects of shareholder value

Italy’s bank rescue: Saving Siena

Finance in Cyprus: Bank from the brink

Ukraine’s economy: The other war

Buttonwood: Zombies ate our growth

Indonesian capital flows: Heavy baggage

American financial regulation: Not with a bang

Brexit and financial regulation: Lost passports

Inequality: A minivan of Mammon

Free exchange: Tariff-eyeing policy

Modelling brains: Does not compute

Panda genetics: Hey, dude. Give me six!

Solar physics and palaeontology: Set in stone

Submarine warfare: Torpedo junction

Submarine warfare: The Richard Casement internship

America’s secret war: They just kept coming

19th-century French literary history: When Emile Zola fled Paris

The joys of smoking: Naughty, but nice

The AIDS crisis in America: Chronicles of death foretold

The Elbphilharmonie: Worth the wait, and the cost

Johnson: One country, two systems

Clare Hollingworth: Sniffing the breezes

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

New passenger-car registrations

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