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A purge of Saudi princes
The perils of plea bargains
Microbial medicine: bugs as drugs
A special report on technology in Africa
NOVEMBER
11TH
–
17TH 2017
America’s future as a global power
Endangered
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Contents
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The world this week
Leaders
American power
Endangered
Initial coin offerings
Scam or substance?
The rise of Muhammad
bin Salman
A palace coup in Riyadh
American taxes
Reform the reform
The global spread of
plea-bargaining
The shadow justice system
33 For-profit colleges
Decline and fall
34 Property tax in Chicago
Lakeshore carousel
35 Lexington
Not the Trump party yet
The Americas
36 Brazil
Could a demagogue win
the presidency?
37 Bello
The FARC and its foes
Britain
Life in Westminster
Cracking the whips
Political conniptions
Unparliamentary
behaviour
The queen’s finances
Royal prerogative
Bagehot
Weak and stable
Theresa May
Special report:
Technology in Africa
The leapfrog model
After page 40
The Economist
November 11th 2017
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On the cover
American influence has
dwindled under Donald
Trump. It will not be simple
to restore: leader, page 11.
The president’s coterie of
military men will try to
temper his rashest decisions.
They will not always succeed,
page 20. Xi Jinping
glad-hands Mr Trump, but
anti-American feeling stirs
in China, page 27
38
Letters
18 On globalisation,
mussels, Russia, politics
Briefing
20 Donald Trump’s generals
Counsel of warriors
Asia
Malaysian politics
Eyes on the prize
Surnames in Japan
When two become one
Abortion in South Korea
Petition and
counter-petition
Politics in Vietnam
Hammer and fist
Electricity in Pakistan
Volt-face
39
British politics
As Westminster sinks into
chaos, the whips—the
backroom fixers with the task
of restoring order—face
problems of their own, page 38.
Don’t expect Theresa May to be
gone anytime soon: Bagehot,
page 40
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Volume 425 Number 9066
Published since September 1843
to take part in "a severe contest between
intelligence, which presses forward, and
an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing
our progress."
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China
27 America and China
Glad-handing Trump
28 Financial risk
A central banker’s warnings
29 Banyan
China and South Korea
make up
United States
30 Off-year elections
Kind of blue
31 Mass shootings
More frequent
32 School-board races
Boardroom battles
Middle East and Africa
Saudi Arabia (1)
A purge of princes
Saudi Arabia (2)
Investors’ fears
Lebanon’s president
The other palace coup
The nuclear deal with Iran
To fix or to nix?
The Louvre in the Gulf
Letting the light in
Pastoralists in Africa
Cows, cash and conflict
South Africa
A graph to protest graft
Saudi purges
The West should
push the impetuous crown
prince to reform Saudi Arabia,
not wreck it: leader, page 12.
Muhammad bin Salman has
made himself the sole arbiter
of Saudi policy, page 41
Technology in Africa
It is
making huge advances, says
Jonathan Rosenthal. But the
full benefits will be reaped
only once basics like power
supplies and communications
are widely available. See our
special report after page 40
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