■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
The French presidency
France’s next revolution
Nigeria’s sick president
Get well soon, Mr Buhari
Red tape in America
Doing deregulation right
Indian banks
From worse to bad
Deportation
Oiling the machine

■Letters
On companies, bubbles, Scotland, banking, Alabama, the green belt, time
Letters to the editor

■Briefing
French politics
Fractured

■United States
Regulation
Grudges and kludges
The budget
Ten-penny plan
Nuclear weapons
Assured destruction
Anti-Semitism
Past and present
Los Angeles
Dense as in smart
Lexington
Leading v cheerleading

■The Americas
Canada’s Conservatives
Chasing Trudeau
Peru’s disappeared
Unearthing the past
Corruption in Mexico
The backhander bus
Bello
He who pays democracy’s piper

■Asia
Philippine politics
Death and taxes
North Korean assassination
VX marks the spot
Donald Trump and Afghanistan
A bitter stalemate
The politics of language in Sri Lanka
Crossed in translation
An ultranationalist kindergarten
School of shock

■China
Hong Kong’s chief executive
Lam dunk
Anti-smog activism
Choking with fury
Banyan
The constrained dictator

■Middle East and Africa
Nigeria
A nation holds its breath
Water in Africa
Pay as you drink
South Africa
Hail to the chiefs
Rwanda
If you build it, they may not come
Saudi Arabia
The destruction of Mecca
Syria
Truncheons at a gunfight

■Europe
Populism in Italy
A tale of two mayors
German defence
Eine deutsche Atombombe?
Russian riddles
Whispers from the Kremlin
Populism and social media
Twitter harvest
Charlemagne
Contempt of court

■Britain
The NHS and social care
Paying for grandpa
The Tories and their opponents
Monarch of all she surveys
Competition and choice
Switching off and on
British banks
Better does not mean good
Divorce law
Blame game
Transgender schoolchildren
Changing rooms and beyond
Devolution in England
All politics is loco
Bagehot
The parable of Gibraltar

■International
Deportation
Exit strategies

■Business
Health care
The wonder drug
Mobile phones
The new old thing
The woes of Uber’s boss
Road rage
Samsung
Group sacrifice
Cargo shipping
Still at sea
Business in Rwanda
Party of business
A corruption probe into Eni
Eni questions
Schumpeter
The British experiment

■Finance and economics
India’s economy
Off balance
Buttonwood
Money illusion
The LSE and Deutsche Börse
No deal?
American trade policy
Plan of action
Currency manipulation
Biting at the champs?
Moral hazard
Taken for a ride
Private-equity deals
Poised to pounce
Free exchange
An impossible mind

■Science and technology
Palaeontology
The living was easy
Lunar spaceflight
Fly who to the Moon?
Artificial intelligence
Neighbourhood watch
Finding new antibiotics
The 48 uses of dragon’s blood
Electronics
One chip to rule them all

■Books and arts
Violence and inequality
Apocalypse then
Wall Street
Stevie wonder
Norse mythology
Stories from the top of the world
Johnson
Lexical treasures
New fiction
Dreams and dreamers
The Academy Awards
Gleaming in the moonlight

■Obituary
Stanley Bard
Up in the old hotel

■Economic and financial indicators
Interactive indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Manufacturing activity
Markets