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Contents
1
Mid-terms Our new statistical
model gives the Democrats
a two-in-three chance of
retaking the House of
Representatives, page 26.
A well-meaning effort to cool
partisan hatred mostly shows
how implacable it is: Lexington,
page 31
On the cover
American executives are
betting that the president is
good for business. Not in the
long run: leader, page13.
Donald Trump is presiding
over a tech-led surge, not an
industrial renaissance,
page 22. America says a
threatened trade war with
China is on hold, but Chinese
officials still have plenty to
worry about, page 40. A rare
bipartisan moment allows a
timid regulatory retreat in
banking, page 66
10 The world this week
Leaders
13 Business in America
The affair
14 Audit reform
Shape up, not break up
15 Ebola
Back to blood
15 Colombia’s election
Faulty front-runners
16 Truth and technology
Cinema, not vérité
Letters
20 On universal health care,
ageism, split infinitives,
the Home Office
Briefing
22 Business under Trump
A boom like no other
United States
26 The mid-terms
Our prediction
27 Trump v Justice
The least-worst option
28 Gun control
Do massacres change
minds?
28 Telephone scams
Robocops
29 E-cigarettes
Starting young
29 Old prisoners
Greybeards behind bars
30 Dutch-Americans
Tulip season
31 Lexington
The partisan chasm
The Americas
32 Colombia’s election
Judging the horseflesh
33 Colombia and the FARC
Peace in peril?
34 Archaeoastronomy
A sight of the sun god
Asia
35 North Korea
Pastel-coloured penury
36 Indian politics
Two-day wonder
37 Fertility in Japan
A corked tube
37 Insurgency in Thailand
Blasts from the past
38 Taiwan’s president
Hurry up
39 Banyan
South-East Asian democracy
China
40 Trade with America
Assessing the pain
Middle East and Africa
43 Ebola
Containment in Congo
44 Justice, Rwandan style
Stand, then stand trial
44 Mapping pandemics
Terra incognita
45 Islamic State
Losing the peace
45 Mohamed Saleh
The pharaoh of forwards
46 Yahya Sinwar
Gaza’s ruthless pragmatist
Europe
47 Italy
The servant of two masters
48 Germany and France
Merkron, Merkroff
49 Turkey’s internet censors
Blocking booze and news
49 Abortion
The computer says yes
49 Russian education
Meet the Ministry of
Enlightenment
50 Putin’s pet school
Shine, but remember
51 Charlemagne
The battle for Slovakia
Britain
52 Brexit and customs
Irish stew
53 Russia and Britain
’Vich hunt
Italy Western Europe’s first
all-populist government takes
shape in Rome—and it spooks
markets, page 47
Ebola A new outbreak in Congo
will test what the world has
learned from the calamitous
epidemic of 2014: leader, page
15. The disease can probably
be contained. If not, it could
spread exponentially, page 43