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

■Leaders
A coup in Zimbabwe
Fall of the dictator
Negative-emissions technology
What they don’t tell you
China’s fiscal system
Muddled model
Aviation
Winning the slottery
Transgender identity
Caught in the crossfire

■Letters
On peacekeeping, Kenya, Fats Domino, social media
Letters to the editor

■Briefing
Combating climate change
Sucking up carbon

■United States
Wages
Great again
Scandal proliferation
Turkey before Thanksgiving
Environmental policy
Calculating
Business taxes
Pass whos?
Sexual harassment
A norm is formed
Model farming
A corny tale
The cannabis market
Disjointed
Lexington
Doug Jones against the darkness

■The Americas
Chile’s election
Middle class, and middle of the road
Bello
The voteathon
Voter turnout
Half of democracy is showing up

■Asia
Sexism in Japan
Flower power
Award
Gay marriage in Australia
Almost there
Geographical indications in India
Ode to cloy
Collecting tax in Myanmar
Cash in hand
New Zealand’s water
Cows and seep
Banyan
Under a cloud

■China
Centre-local relations
The walking debt
Homosexuality
Torture condoned

■Middle East and Africa
Zimbabwe
The man who wrecked a country
Lebanese politics
The mysterious Mr Hariri

■Europe
German foreign policy
Taking the strain
Political extremes in France
The pot-bangers’ lament
Hungary’s Jobbik
New-look nationalists
Cyprus
Billionaires club
Charlemagne
She-wolf v sultan

■Britain
Brexit
Decisions, decisions
Northern Ireland
Sleep paralysis
Iran and Britain
Held to ransom
Brexit and pharmaceuticals
Withdrawal symptoms
Inflation
Up to the top of the hill…
Black Friday
Oversold and over here
Bagehot
Power to the people

■International
Transgender identity
Found in transition

■Business
General Electric
The right mechanic?
Bytedance and Toutiao
Dancing to their own tune
Mining
The sphinx of zinc
Indian corporate philanthropy
Donate, or else
Allergan and the Mohawks
A patent ploy
E-commerce
Briefs encounter
Landing and take-off slots
Airport heist
Schumpeter
A deal that Donald dislikes

■Finance and economics
Japan
The slow-grilled economy
Buttonwood
Passive aggressive
Trade deals
Repair job
Oil
Guns v money
Internship
Global wealth
Millennials’ missing millions
ABP
Size matters
Competition
Silent dogs
Accounting and banks
Stage fright
Free exchange
The grow-nothings

■Science and technology
Surgery
Renaissance
Personalised medicine
Test-tube tumours
Contacting extraterrestrials
Nanoo nanoo

■Books and arts
The digital world
Reality check
History of Iran
The revenge of the clergy
The Baltic Sea
Head north and farther
Performance art
In demand
Johnson
Right and wrong on bearing arms

■Obituary
Terry Laughlin
Making waves

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