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Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

Personal transportation: Uberworld

Corporate taxation: Bruised Apple

The British economy and Brexit: The right kind of budget

Brazil’s new president: A chance for a fresh start

Counter-terrorism: Scared? Make women disrobe

On China, Labour, assisted suicide, Yazidis, voting, long lunches, dogs, religion, Donald Trump: Letters to the editor

Uber: From zero to seventy (billion)

The Senate: Downballot blues

Bounty hunting: Delivery men

Zika in Florida: Boots on the ground

Political science: Trump and the academy

Johns Hopkins: Applied research

Lexington: In Trump they trust

Brazil: Time for Temer

The Latinobarómetro poll: Neither Trumpian nor Brexiteer

Bello: The unspeakable and the inexplicable

Uzbekistan’s president: An ailing despot

Australia and the Pacific: Foam flecked

Marriage in Japan: I don’t

Surrogacy in India: The end of paid labour?

Banyan: Agreeing to agree

Xinjiang: The race card

Social media: Posers for the party

Nigeria’s food crisis: Hunger games

South Africa: Uncivil war

Egypt’s economy: Of bread, bribes and fungus

Guinea and the haj: The pilgrims’ tale

The war on Syria’s doctors: The ultimate barbarity

France’s identity politics: Ill-suited

The future of the EU: Now what?

Germany’s refugee anniversary: Assimilation report

German populism’s heartland: East is east

Charlemagne: Magical misery tour

The economy since the Brexit referendum: Fact and fiction

Infrastructure: Ropy roads, rail and runways

Britain and France: Calais capers

Measuring crime: Bobbies on the spreadsheet

Polish businesses: Staying put

Bagehot: The ungovernables

Terrorism: Learning to live with it

Corporate taxation: The €13 billion bite

Drugs in America: Seizure-inducing

Xiaomi: Show me again

Serge Pun & Associates: Honest partner

Corporate activists in Germany: Stada and deliver

Zalando: Fashion forward

Schumpeter: Leaving for the city

Schumpeter: Correction: Own goal

China’s data: Superstition ain’t the way

Politics and statistics: Called to account

Stockmarket returns in America: The long arm of the Fed

Indian capital markets: Bank vigilantes

Private-equity search funds: Seek and we shall fund

Bad loans to shipping: That sinking feeling

Australia’s economy: Good on you

Free exchange: More spend, less thrift

Vaccines: Putting shots in the locker

Chronic-fatigue syndrome: Blood simple?

Textiles and thermoregulation: A cool shirt

The Anthropocene: Dawn of a new epoch?

The state of the world: Better and better

European history: The best of times

Indian politics: Raise him up

History of philosophy: Seeing the light

Fiction: You’re my baby

New American television: As real as a dream

Obituary: Roly Bain: Let us play

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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Precious-metal prices

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