Peak Valley: Why startups are going elsewhere
The world this week
Leaders
Copying allowed
What other countries can learn from Singapore’s schools
Rigorous teaching methods and excellent teachers keep the island-state top of the class
The new geography of innovation
Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley
Its primacy as a technology hub is on the wane. That is cause for concern
Going south
America’s deal with Mexico will make NAFTA worse
Its costly new regulations result from flawed economic logic
Genocide in Myanmar
Burmese generals should stand trial for atrocities against the Rohingya
The West should stop coddling Aung San Suu Kyi
Show me the money
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless
For blockchains, the jury is still out
Letters
Letters
Letters to the editor
Europe
Gearing up for a fight
Tensions rise between Italy and the EU
A thickening web
America’s escalating Russian sanctions
All the young prudes
Naked Europe covers up
Life in the centrifuge
Lessons for the EU from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Briefing
Techsodus
Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing
Great success has brought high costs and structural change
Britain
Harwell, we have a problem
Farmers adapt NASA’s Mars rover to raise chickens
Corbyn’s conundrum
Pressure grows on Labour to back a referendum on a Brexit deal
Sometimes it’s hard
The puzzle of Britain’s unhappy girls
Out of credit
Wonga’s woes spell the end of the payday-loan era
Doing the Brexit shimmy
Britain’s belated charm offensive in Africa
Middle East & Africa
When the music stops
Lebanon’s economy has long been sluggish. Now a crisis looms
A deadly virus in an already dangerous place
Battling Ebola in a war zone in Congo
Where loyalty trumps sect
Shias are doing better in Saudi Arabia
United States
Shivering the chains
Socialism in America
A chronicle of deaths untold
Hurricane Maria was the most deadly storm in America since 1900
Bee’s needs
The scourge of honey fraud
Fake views
Googling the news
Trans parenting
Why are so many teenage girls appearing in gender clinics?
The Americas
Unloved but unbudgeable
Daniel Ortega tightens his grip on Nicaragua
Natural disasters
Getting over Hurricane Maria
Where the rubber hits the road
The many uses of condoms in Cuba
The power of the purge
Julio César Trujillo is Ecuador’s second-most powerful man
Asia
Room for improvement
It has the world’s best schools, but Singapore wants better
Worse than imagined
The UN accuses the Burmese army of genocide
Dotting their i’s
Thailand’s military junta may at last be ready to call an election
Help not wanted
India’s government turns down disaster relief
China
The party’s scourge
Falun Gong still worries China, despite efforts to crush the sect
A flood of complaints
Were officials to blame for the inundation of farms in China?
International
All the lonely people
Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
Technology Quarterly
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
What to make of cryptocurrencies and blockchains
Riding the rollercoaster
How to put bitcoin into perspective
Chips off the block
From one cryptocurrency to thousands
A voracious appetite
Mining cryptocurrencies is using up eye-watering amounts of power
Token efforts
Initial coin offerings have become big business
Nailing it
The promise of the blockchain technology
Beyond the hype
Dividing the cryptocurrency sheep from the blockchain goats
Business
Swallowing bitter pills
China is sprucing up its pharma sector
Into the red
Why Indian carriers are losing money
Atlantia after Genoa
A disaster leaves a European infrastructure giant on edge
Passive, aggressive
Asset managers get involved in the companies they own
Beyond repair?
BMW’s reputation in South Korea goes up in flames
Schumpeter
Disputes over goodwill can seem arcane
Finance & economics
In the eye of the storm
KPMG is caught up in scandals but its woes are not existential
Redefining helpful finance
Rules on bank lending in poor neighbourhoods are being rethought
The river between
Informal trade is ubiquitous in Africa, but too often ignored
Schools brief
Science & technology
Machine learning
A sense of curiosity is helpful for artificial intelligence
Shiver me timbers
A new type of motorboat takes to the water in disguise
Culture
Sins of the fathers
Karl Ove Knausgaard reaches The End of his struggle
Jung at heart
The enduring appeal of personality types
In the kingdom of cyborgs
Big data is reshaping humanity, says Yuval Noah Harari
How the Thunder rolls
The ballad of Oklahoma City
Do look now
The race for the Oscars begins in Venice
Obituary
Means of resistance