■The world this week
Politics
Business
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
France and Germany
Europe’s new order
Opening up Saudi Arabia
Driving reform
A snap election in Japan
Abe’s road
Financial regulation
Day of the MiFID—the sequel
Property in the digital age
Take back control

■Letters
On spy novels, North Korea, Hillary Clinton, the EU, offshore wind, headlines
Letters to the editor

■Briefing
Amending America’s constitution
Conventional follies

■United States
America, China and North Korea
What next
Puerto Rico
A crippling blow
Government spending
Fly me (private) to the Moon
Tax cuts
Deductive reasoning
Flatlining
Counting murders
Alabama’s special election
Strange days
The Supreme Court’s new term
Anthony Kennedy’s Camelot
Lexington
Winning the battle

■The Americas
Cuba’s economy
Slim pickings
Bello
A battle over “gender ideology”
Rubbish in Brazil
Swipe right to recycle
Afro-Canadians
Where pineapples don’t thrive

■Asia
Politics in Japan
Hope springs
Elections in New Zealand
Coalition conundrum
Hill-country Tamils in Sri Lanka
A minority within a minority
Fighting love jihad in India
Invading the bedroom
Holidays in South Korea
Korea break
Banyan
The long watch

■China
Legal system
See you in court
Military education
Students with guns

■Middle East and Africa
Political violence in South Africa
So much to cry about
The taxman as a tool of repression
Beware the taxman
Politics in Uganda
No country for young men
Iran’s Kurds
Catching on?
The Israel Defence Forces
In which we don’t serve
Egypt’s Shia
Out of hiding

■Europe
Germany’s election
Merkeldämmerung
Italy
Safe so far
Turkish schools
Erdogan v Darwin
Spain
The law and the vote
Greece
Owls of rage
Charlemagne
The Emmangela show

■Britain
The Brexit negotiations
From Florence to Manchester
Uber in London
Not ’appy
Labour in Brighton
The new Labour establishment
Private-finance initiatives
Going public
The India Club
Calling time on a time-capsule
Fighting corruption
One way or another
Dyson’s electric vehicle
Cleaning up cars
Bagehot
The four-party system

■International
The professionalisation of charities
Business principles

■Special report
France
Regeneration
Business
Into gear
Education
The tyranny of normal
The regions
Double fracture
France in Europe
A certain idea

■Business
Tinkering in the digital age
If it’s broken, you can’t fix it
Entrepreneurship in America
Gazelles in the heartland
Yandex
Silicon Valley by the Moskva
McDonald’s in India
Not lovin’ it
Nestlé and L’Oréal
Because it’s worth it
Non-voting shares
Social classes
Rivigo
The Indian pony express
Schumpeter
Uneasy accommodation

■Finance and economics
MiFID 2
On the starting grid
Buttonwood
When the cycle turns
American trade disputes
A candlemakers’ petition
Electronic payments
Playing the Viking card
Bitcoin in China
Cryptocrackdown
The Bank of Japan
Dig deeper
Venture capital
Girl power
Free exchange
Wearied science

■Science and technology
Air travel
Mechanical engineers
Birds’ nests and parasites
Butt in or butt out?
Child psychology
Paradise, postponed
Video gaming
Sure plays a mean pin ball
Meteorology
A thousand eyes on the sky

■Books and arts
Political books
Purple blues
The Ukrainian famine
The making of a mass murder
A carpenter’s memoir
If I had a hammer
German fiction
The wall in the mind
Photography
Manipulation man

■Obituary
Stanislav Petrov
Midnight and counting

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
High-net-worth individuals
Markets