Xi Jinping has more clout than Donald Trump. The world should be wary
The world this week
Leaders
The world’s most powerful man
Xi Jinping has more clout than Donald Trump. The world should be wary
Do not expect Mr Xi to change China, or the world, for the better
Britain’s zombie leadership
Theresa May should clear out her cabinet
A purge would reanimate Britain’s weak and stable government
A cost-benefit analysis
How to judge whether deregulation is going too far
Donald Trump’s regulatory policy is a strange mix of thoughtful and dangerous
Squandering the peace
The failure to rebuild Mosul could let Islamic State return
Iraq needs to show Sunni Arabs that they have a stake in the country’s future
The man who foiled the UN
Cambodia’s prime minister has wrecked a 25-year push for democracy
His latest ploy is to disband the main opposition party
Letters
Letters
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Life and soul of the Party
Xi Jinping has been good for China’s Communist Party; less so for China
Contradicting Deng Xiaoping, Mr Xi has concentrated vast power in his own hands
Europe
Touching the void
The Spanish government calls the Catalans’ bluff
Luckier with Wauquiez?
France’s centre-right offers no serious opposition to Emmanuel Macron
Duda’s defiance
Poland’s president turns on his former boss
Palace insiders
Many eastern Europeans feel nostalgia for the communist era
Britain
Of balls, courts and no deals
Theresa May’s weakness at home is slowing down the Brexit talks
Europe’s other separatists
Scottish independence becomes a more distant dream
Ready or not
The Home Office: a crisis in waiting
Throttling back
BAE Systems sheds 2,000 jobs in Britain
Middle East & Africa
Waiting for lift-off
Sudan’s economy is in trouble, even without sanctions
Kenya’s electoral poker
Raila Odinga takes a gamble by threatening to boycott Kenya’s election
Raining on Iran’s parade
Scrapping the deal with Iran could embolden its hardliners
After Islamic State
Iraq’s recaptured territory is being neglected
United States
The intolerant fifth
Free speech at American universities is under threat
J.S. Mill goes back to college
Evaluating the evidence on micro-aggressions and trigger warnings
Take me to the river
America’s oldest transport network needs some attention
Buzzed by the fuzz
More police departments and other first-responders are using drones
A Corker of a row
What Republican senators really think of the president
Lexington
The evangelical divide
The Americas
Prince Charming and his taxes
Justin Trudeau’s flying unicorn hits a storm
Elections on a shoestring
Brazil’s congress starts to reform itself
Havana lector
The people who read to Cuban cigar-factory workers
Asia
Promising the Moon
South Korea tries to boost the economy by hiking the minimum wage
Smoke and errors
India’s courts take the fun out of a Hindu holiday
The logical step
Cambodia’s government asks the courts to abolish the opposition
More blinkered than blind
Pakistan is “mainstreaming” misogynist tribal justice
Nothing to see here
Myanmar’s media peddle “patriotic” facts
China
Rogue to vogue?
Despite its reputation, Chinese aid is quite effective
International
Damage control
Trauma medicine has learned lessons from the battlefield
Business
Deregulating American business
An assessment of the White House’s progress on deregulation
Making it in America
American factories could prosper if they find enough skilled workers
In the eye of the storm
Why McKinsey is under attack in South Africa
Finance & economics
The missing link
Technology is revolutionising supply-chain finance
Standing novations
Brexit will give the derivatives market a nasty headache
Passing the buck
In dirt-poor Myanmar, smartphones are transforming finance
Science & technology
Better childbirth
More evidence for a link between Caesarean sections and obesity
Clean energy and ecology
Offshore wind farms will change life in the sea
Culture
The best-laid plans
Optimism has made wars likelier and bloodier
Unwelcome elements
The book that foresaw the assault on the Rohingyas
Relight my fire
Unorthodox advice for rescuing a marriage
Free to be crude and mean
Rethinking free speech on campus
Sphinx no longer
