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Contents
1
Britain’s Windrush fiasco
The mistreatment of
Caribbean Britons shows the
need for a better way of
checking identity: leader,
page12. A mess over migrants
might mean less fuss about ID
cards, page 54. Promiscuous?
Divorced? Eccentric-looking?
You may be denied a passport,
page 55. Britain’s new home
secretary confronts a
formidable list of challenges:
Bagehot, page 56
On the cover
Even as America tries to
strike a deal with North
Korea, arms control elsewhere
is unravelling: leader, page11.
Old deals to limit nuclear
weapons are fraying. Both
politics and technological
change make their renewal or
replacement unlikely, page 21.
The Korean honeymoon is
more likely to end in tears
than in celebrations, page 37.
A new history of a terrifyingly
close shave with nuclear
Armageddon, page 81
8 The world this week
Leaders
11 Arms control
Disarmageddon
12 T-Mobile and Sprint
Block the call
12 Britain’s Windrush
scandal
Identity crisis
14 French universities
Non-selective nonsense
16 Governance in Africa
Augean Angola
Letters
18 On Donald Trump, Poland,
Singapore, funerals
Briefing
21 Global security
A farewell to arms control
United States
25 Striking teachers
Pedagogic protest
26 Policing
Serve and predict
26 Steve Komarow
A tribute
28 Child development
Mother’s money
30 Trucking
Sikhs in semis
32 Lexington
The sage grouse
The Americas
34 Mexico
The politics of homicide
35 Mexico’s mayors
A dangerous job
36 Bello
Argentine gradualism
Asia
37 The Korean peninsula
Give peace a chance, redux
38 Malaysia’s election
The old man’s last test
39 Indonesia
The hard-hat president
40 Indian politics
The battle in Karnataka
40 Masala for the media
Gaffe-prone leaders in India
China
41 Internal migrants
The bitter generation
44 Banyan
Sino-American tech war
Special report:
Financial inclusion
Exclusive access
After page 44
Middle East and Africa
45 Angola
How far will Lourenço go?
46 Mozambique
Still in a hole
46 Eritrea and Ethiopia
Could they make peace?
47 Lebanon’s election
A snap-happy campaign
47 Palestinians in Syria
Refugees again
48 Democracy in Tunisia
Uncertain promise
Europe
49 Anti-Semitism in Europe
Haters gonna hate
50 Armenia
A velvet revolution so far
51 Romania
Trying the president
51 France’s students
The shadow of ’68
52 Greenland
The Danish yoke
52 Georgian anti-fashion
Reaping what it sews
53 Charlemagne
The EU’s budget
Britain
54 Identity cards
Big bother
55 Citizenship applications
No sex, please, we’re the
Home Office
55 Sainsbury’s and Asda
In the money
56 Bagehot
Sajid Javid’s in-tray
Anti-Semitism in Europe
Today’s prejudice is linked to
angry identity politics on the
right and left, page 49
Angola Sacking the old
president’s children was a
good start. But João Lourenço
must do more to clean up
Angola: leader, page16. Hopes
for a corruption-weary
country as a new president
consolidates power, page 45
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