The Economist – April 15-21, 2017
(Audio Edition will be available tomorrow)
The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
Articles in this issue:
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
A referendum in Turkey: The slide into dictatorship
Syria: What next?
Rural education in China: Separate and unequal
Startups: Silicon pally
Identity and privacy: Per Aadhaar ad astra?
On Yemen, sex studies, India, Wales, Singapore, Poland, brains, April’s Fool: Letters to the editor
Turkey’s referendum: On the razor’s edge
Remembering the coup: Brave “New Turkey”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy: On a whim and a prayer
Modern warfare: Useful idiots, updated
Trust forests: Elliott less
St Louis: Millennials to the rescue
Closing Rikers jail: Siren island
Scandal in Alabama: And other parts
Lexington: Trump v Trumpism
Honduras: A double helping of Hernández?
Canada: Blurring borders
Chile: Going nowhere
Brazilian letters: Bard of Belíndia
Aadhaar: Digital dawn
Methamphetamines in Australia: Ice storm
A prison for foreigners in South Korea: Why the jailbirds sing
Executions in Vietnam: Deathly silence
Bullying in Japan: All against one
Banyan: Trouble at the top
Education in the countryside: A class apart
Education in Hong Kong: Testing times
Shia militias: Who runs Iraq?
The agony of Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday’s agony
Cannabis laws: Puff, puff, prison
Iran: Taking aim at the president
South Africa: Highway, interrupted
Universities in Africa: More can be less
France’s four-way election: A presidency up for grabs
Russian meddling in Europe: Shadow puppets
European elections: It’s not the economy, stupid
Migrants in the Mediterranean: Merciless sea
Charlemagne: Dark horizon
Immigration: A portrait of Migrantland
European Union citizenship: How to remain European
En Vogue: Fashion journalism
Christie’s: Death of a salesroom
Universities as property developers: Bricks and mortar boards
The Irish language: The lighting of a fire
The death penalty: Tough love
Bagehot: Time to learn some new tricks
Disposing of nuclear waste: To the next ice age and beyond
Car mergers: Wheels in motion
Women in tech: Bits and bias
HNA Group: A Buddhist tycoon
Algorithmic retailing: Automatic for the people
United Airlines: Air rage
Cloud computing and telecoms: Telecomulonimbus
Schumpeter: Crony capitalism
China’s banks: A sunny spell
Buttonwood: Not barking yet
The European Free Trade Association: L-EFTA behind
Barclays: Staley stumbles
Rural finance in Myanmar: A country mile
Mobile money in Africa: Transfer market
Depopulation in Germany: Fading echoes
Free exchange: On balance
Marine biology: Mapping the mesopelagic
Icebreakers: Making waves
High-security locks: Forging the unforgeable
Gut microbes and the brain: Bad medicine
The science of shoelaces: A knotty problem
Refugees: The forgotten millions
A very Victorian marriage: To have and to hold
New fiction: The animal within
Damien Hirst: From the heart of the sea
Johnson: Gender bender
Adrian Coles: A prickly business
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