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The world this week

Leaders

American politics

Trump’s America

Why the Donald is dangerous

Europe’s migrant crisis

Merkel the bold

On refugees, Germany’s chancellor is brave, decisive and right

Brazil’s disastrous budget

All fall down

Brazil is in an economic hole—and still digging

South Africa’s foreign policy

Clueless and immoral

A country that symbolises human rights and freedom is turning its back on both

Remittances

Costly cash

Regulation is raising the cost of sending money to the world’s poor. Reform it

Letters

On China, science, Alexander Hamilton, Urals, editing genes

Letters to the editor

Briefing

The Trump campaign

The art of the demagogue

The Republican Party regularly sees insurgents in its primaries. A self-funding one who seems capable of saying almost anything, though, is something new

Trade warrior in waiting

Foreign policy

Time to strike fear

Talking to The Economist, Donald Trump promises not to be nice

Europe

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

Britain

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

Middle East & Africa

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

United States

Arguing over Iran

Fighting talk

Dairy farming

From moo to you

Arctic America

Tales of Atlantis

The Americas

Guatemala’s president

Not so serene

Canada’s pot-loving church

Dope springs eternal

Asia

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

China

Victory Day celebrations

Parade’s end

Parade preparations

Tanks a lot

International

Urban planning

Streetwise

Physical inactivity

You have waked me too soon…

Technology Quarterly

Difference engine

More from Moore

Monitoring nuclear weapons

The nuke detectives

Monitoring nuclear weapons

Lasering the fuel

Rational consumer

Driving on camera

3D printing

Wonderful widgets

Business

Employers in America

Work to rule

Hispanic broadcasting

Univision’s blurry picture

ENI in Egypt

Euregas!

Finance & economics

India’s economy

Still in business

Buttonwood

With great power

Global banks

Emerging troubles

The cost of international transfers

A tax on the poor

Free exchange

Inflated claims

Schools brief

Why does time pass?

The moving finger writes

Science & technology

The war on malaria

A charge that sticks

Culture

Gay rights in America

The arc of history

Religious conflict

Bloodied brothers

American college football

Punishingly profitable

Herring’s history

Net worth

Cross-cultural art

East meets West

New American fiction

Being Franzen’s friends

Obituary

Obituary: Oliver Sacks

Travels through a mindscape