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Articles in this issue:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL's cartoon

American politics: Trump’s America

Europe’s migrant crisis: Merkel the bold

Brazil’s disastrous budget: All fall down

South Africa’s foreign policy: Clueless and immoral

Remittances: Costly cash

On China, science, Alexander Hamilton, Urals, editing genes: Letters to the editor

The Trump campaign: The art of the demagogue

Foreign policy: Time to strike fear

Tackling poverty: It’s expensive to be poor

Arguing over Iran: Fighting talk

Dairy farming: From moo to you

Arctic America: Tales of Atlantis

Lexington: Is there an app for that?

Brazil’s economy: Desperate times, desperate moves

Guatemala’s president: Not so serene

Canada’s pot-loving church: Dope springs eternal

Marriage in India: Love (and money) conquer caste

Pakistani politics: Upsetting the apple cart

Indonesia: Too mild?

The Koreas and China: He shells, she shells

Women and work in Japan: We’re busy. Get an abortion

Victory Day celebrations: Parade’s end

Parade preparations: Tanks a lot

Banyan: Unnatural aristocrats

The Middle East and oil: The perils of relying on the sticky stuff

Iranian politics: A lion in winter

Investment in Iran: Not so fast

Smartphones and ultra-Orthodox Jews: Digital temptations

Tourism in South Africa: Beware of good intentions

Boko Haram: Shadow army

Generation Interrail: What Europe means to the young

Polish gold fever: Waiting for the train

France’s National Front: From protest to power

Workers and wages: Our turn to eat

Organised crime: Ruffians in Rome

Charlemagne: Sprechen Sie power?

Older workers: March of the greybeards

Britain and Europe: Le wobble

Music and journalism: Public NME

Nuclear weapons: A political torpedo

Commercial property: Shop ’til you drop

Bicycle-making: Wheels with soul

Ethnic minorities: The XX-factor

Teacher recruitment: School’s out

Bagehot: The land that Labour forgot

Urban planning: Streetwise

Physical inactivity: You have waked me too soon…

Monitor: In for the long haul

Monitor: Escape from flatland

Monitor: Sunshine and clouds

Monitor: Flapping about

Difference engine: More from Moore

Monitoring nuclear weapons: The nuke detectives

Monitoring nuclear weapons: Lasering the fuel

Rational consumer: Driving on camera

3D printing: A bridge to the future

3D printing: Wonderful widgets

Brain scan: Teaching tomorrow

Primark: Faster, cheaper fashion

Employers in America: Work to rule

Hispanic broadcasting: Univision’s blurry picture

ENI in Egypt: Euregas!

Hon Hai: Kicking the Apple addiction

Schumpeter: The Trump in every leader

India’s economy: Still in business

Buttonwood: With great power

Global banks: Emerging troubles

Remittances: Like manna from heaven

The cost of international transfers: A tax on the poor

Free exchange: Inflated claims

Medicinal chemistry: Drugs that live long will prosper

The war on malaria: A charge that sticks

Fisheries: Drawing the line

Evolution: Slippery customers

Why does time pass?: The moving finger writes

Gay rights in America: The arc of history

American college football: Punishingly profitable

Religious conflict: Bloodied brothers

Herring’s history: Net worth

New American fiction: Being Franzen’s friends

Cross-cultural art: East meets West

Obituary: Oliver Sacks: Travels through a mindscape

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