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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week Kal's cartoon Chinese power: What the West got wrong Italy’s alarming election: Povera Italia Pollution: Plastic surgery The Indian economy: No mere formality Sexism in Hollywood: #MeToo, part two Autonomous vehicles: Who is behind the wheel? On the Democratic Republic of Congo, Costa Rica, 5G, Italy, Vietnam, Brexit: Letters to the editor China and the West: Not the partner you were looking for Schools: Portfolio theory Veterans’ affairs: V strange The Supreme Court: Labour’s lost Public education: Soldiering on Managing spies: Spooks for hire The Velvet Hammer: Can’t touch this Lexington: Lost Boy found Canada’s economy: Don’t drill, plant Language in Brazil: Gialdo alert Bello: Venezuela and Latin American values Security in Pakistan: Mopping up Driving in Japan: End of the road Politics in Afghanistan: Power-shedding Myanmar’s economy: The 238-point plan Taiwan’s toilet-paper shortage: Wiped out Constitutional change: Under the cover Zimbabwe: The crocodile swims in murky waters Emmerson Mnangagwa: Open for business, closed for remorse Safer sex in Senegal: Beating back HIV Arms deals in the Gulf: How much for a pilot? Church property in Jerusalem: Holy, profitable land Development in Morocco: Idle and angry Italy: The right road is wholly lost and gone Germany: Succession planning Turkey: Muzzling the fourth estate France: Aux armes, citoyens! Spain: A fit of intolerance Charlemagne: Europe’s back-seat drivers Labour’s strategy: Master of (almost) all he surveys Brexit and trade: The customs of the country Universities: Super-regulator to the rescue! Social care: The other crisis A minimum price for alcohol: Bottom’s up Musical education: Total eclipse of the arts Bagehot: Parliament’s silent majority Plastic pollution: Too much of a good thing Defence correspondent Foreign internship Autonomous vehicles: Reinventing wheels Technology: From here to autonomy The impact on industry: Selling rides, not cars Urban planning: The new autopia Society: A different world Implications for policymakers: Rules of the road The car business: Last lap of luxury American business and the NRA: Outgunned? The OPL 245 affair: Drillers in the dock Management consulting: Firm direction Comcast: Excuse me while I bid for Sky Flying private: Time for an upgrade Schumpeter: Are China’s state giants reformable? India’s economy: Emerging from the shadows Buttonwood: The only way is up? The rise and fall of Anbang: Out with a whimper Emerging markets: Putin’s fiscal fortress Asia’s stockmarkets: Duelling exchanges Tax and the dollar: Green-back Trade and the dollar: Bills, bills, bills Free exchange: Better, stronger, faster Robot laboratories: Gene machines Agricultural chemicals: For better or worse The limits of biology: Waiting for rain Psychology: Sniffing out authoritarianism Hollywood after Weinstein: After the fall A requiem for the factory: When giants ruled the world The reality of war: Fragments and ruins Johnson: For whom, the bell tolls Billy Graham: The hour of decision Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Metal prices Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)