■The world this week
Politics this week (2)
Business this week
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■Leaders
Technology and education
Lifelong learning (94)
Trump and the intelligence agencies
Speaking post-truth to power (231)
Trump and Mexico
Handling a bully (34)
Renewable energy
A greener grid
Proliferating parties
Splitters (1)

■Letters
Letters to the editor
On liberalism, Brexit, Asian banks, Syria, the European Union, data, economists

■Briefing
Manufacturing
They don’t make ’em like that any more (2)

■United States
Donald Trump and his critics
Where there’s brass (26)
Intelligence agencies and the presidency
Burn before reading (7)
Conflicts of interest
Two out of four (4)
Shakers
Not too shaken
Jeff Sessions
Past and prologue (10)
National parks
An Ear-full (1)
Lexington
How to use superpowers (8)

■The Americas
Mexico and the United States
Bracing for impact (14)
Transport in Toronto
Laggard on the lake (3)

■Asia
Indian politics
Non-stick PM (4)
Royal politics in Thailand
Return to sender (18)
South Korea and Japan
Future tense (2)
Anti-Chinese protests
Deep water (2)
Banyan
Still just saying no (1)

■China
Railways
The lure of speed (1)
Infrastructure
Hunting white elephants (1)
Public opinion
Once upon a crime

■Middle East and Africa
Startups in the Arab world
Set them free (3)
The death of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The ayatollah’s long shadow (1)
Botswana
Between rocks and hard places (34)
Ivory Coast
Mutiny for a bounty (3)
Congo
The sound of politics (1)

■Europe
The French left
Battling for survival (5)
The European Parliament
Opposites attract (2)
Italy’s populists
Five Star mystery (1)
The Yugoslavia and Kosovo tribunals
Better than nothing (1)
Political fragmentation
Going to bits (1)
Charlemagne
The cruel sea (25)

■Britain
Northern Ireland
Into the unknown (6)
European migrants and business
Labour pains (6)
Cricket and Brexit
Beyond the boundary Britain Only
Mental health
Out of the shadows Britain Only
University reform
An academic dispute Britain Only (1)
Devolution to Wales
Making hungry where they satisfy Britain Only (1)
Assisted suicide
A matter of life or death Britain Only (3)
Bagehot
Staying airborne (2)
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■International
The Guantánamo conundrum
A legal quagmire that still stinks
A military trial
Through a glass, silently

■Special report: Lifelong education
Learning and earning
Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative(1)
Cognition switch
What employers can do to encourage their workers to retrain(2)
Old dogs, new tricks
How older employees perform in the workplace(1)
The return of the MOOC
Established education providers v new contenders(4)
Pathway dependency
Turning qualifications into jobs
The elephant in the truck
Retraining low-skilled workers

■Business
Formula One
Nifty manoeuvres (1)
Intellectual property
Blockchain of command
Uber for kids
Baby, you can drive in my car
Iron ore in Guinea
A pig of a project
Advanced manufacturing
The new manufacturing footprint (9)
Schumpeter
They’ve lost that loving feeling (1)

■Finance and economics
Inflation
A welcome revival (16)
Buttonwood
Franc discussions (2)
Emerging markets
Back from the frontier (2)
Supply-chain finance
Every little helps (1)
The Big Mac index
The all-meaty dollar (1)
Fintech in Singapore
Out of the box (1)
Japanese tuna
Bluefinger (1)
China’s currency
Squeezed to life (6)
Chinese tax
Making China great again (1)
Free exchange
Get off of my cloud (5)
Awards

■Science and technology
Power transmission
Rise of the supergrid (6)
Astronomy
De Nova Stella
Medical diagnostics
String-driven thing (14)
Underwater drones
One that didn’t get away
The evolution of the menopause
A whale of a tale

■Books and arts
A walk across Washington
District line (1)
Spying in America
The Snowden operation (2)

■Obituary
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Shark of Persia

■Economic and financial indicators
Interactive indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, January averages
Markets