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Contents
1
Executive action Donald
Trump’s powers are not as vast
as his lawyers claim, page 29
On the cover
Even if Donald Trump strikes
a deal with North Korea, his
foreign policy will harm
America and the world:
leader, page11. America’s
president is undermining the
rules-based international
order. Can any good come of
it? Page18. Talks between
America and North Korea
might just succeed, but at
what price? Page 22
8 The world this week
Leaders
11 Trump’s foreign policy
Demolition man
12 Trade retaliation
Rules of war
12 A new Spanish government
The gain in Spain
13 AI and work
Images aren’t everything
14 Football
How to win the World Cup
Letters
16 On central banks, life
insurance, work,
Singapore, Prince
Charles, hyphens
Briefing
18 Trump and the world
Present at the destruction
Asia
22 The Trump-Kim summit
Pushing the envelope
24 Tourism in Japan
No room at the inn
25 “Tribals” in India
Revolution rocks
26 Banyan
Malaysia: one country,
two systems
China
27 Caring for the dying
Loved to death
28 Inheritance
Good will-writing
United States
29 The rule of law
Pardon me?
30 Elections in California
Almost blue it
31 Pharmaceuticals
Right to try
31 Charles and David Koch
Kochtopus fishing
32 Local government
Scandimonium
33 Lexington
Bernie Sanders
The Americas
34 Brazil
Politics after the strike
35 Abortion in Argentina
Of rosaries and ovaries
36 Nicaragua
Ortega’s last act
36 An eruption in Guatemala
Fuego’s fury
Middle East and Africa
37 Peace and privatisation
Ethiopia’s new prime
minister
38 Conflict in Nigeria
Wild fire
38 Africa’s shady middlemen
The death of Ely Calil
39 Protests in Jordan
Uneasy lies the head
40 Saudi Arabia
Reform and repression
40 The war in Yemen
How to make things worse
Europe
41 Spain’s new prime
minister
A smooth takeover
42 Italy
Bashing migrants
43 Animal-lovers v nature
Starving the beasts
43 Bosnia
Refugee politics
44 Turkey
The Kurdish kingmaker
45 Charlemagne
Angela Merkel plays it cool
Britain
46 Grenfell Tower
The long shadow
47 Russian oligarchs
Offski?
47 European security
Galileo’s middle finger
48 Culture wars
Brexit v Bernard-Henri Lévy
49 Bagehot
Good capitalism v bad
Spain’s new government
Populists of the left and right
are on the rise in Europe.
Despite its political turbulence,
Spain is different: leader, page
12. The new prime minister,
Pedro Sánchez, tries to
combine change, stability and
a fragile mandate, page 41
Good capitalism v bad
Britain’s Conservative Party
is engaged in a surprising
debate on the virtues of
markets: Bagehot, page 49