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Contents The Economist January 27th 2018 3

6 The world this week The Americas
33 Brazil
Leaders Lula’s last stand?
9 The future of conflict 34 Honduras
The next war A tarnished presidency
10 Work-place arbitration 34 Jamaica
Shut out by the small print Bad lottery vybz
11 Land in South Africa 35 Bello
Don’t do as Mugabe did How the middle class votes
11 Investment banks Washington shutdown A brief
Sorpasso on the Street Middle East and Africa
government closure revealed
12 Trade tariffs 36 The war in Syria (1) deep splits among Democrats
Duties call Turkey moves in and an increasingly poisonous
On the cover 37 The war in Syria (2) debate over immigration,
Shifts in geopolitics and Letters Precarious Rojava page 27. America’s budget
technology are renewing the 14 On Donald Trump, ethnic 38 Palestinian refugees process swallows time but
threat of great-power conflict: minorities, Singapore, Stripping the Strip achieves too little, page 28
leader, page 9. War is still a airports 38 African currencies
contest of wills, but its Franc exchange
character is changing, argues
Matthew Symonds. See our Briefing 39 Integrity idols
special report after page 40. 17 America and North Korea Good clean entertainment
Hope that Donald Trump is Face off 39 Political prisoners
bluffing over North Korea, in Ethiopia
but do not count on it, page 17 Setting them free
Asia
40 South Africa’s land reform
21 Caste prejudice in India How not to do it
The Economist online Unconscionable
Daily analysis and opinion to 22 North Korea’s Special report:
supplement the print edition, plus conglomerates The future of war EU welfare Populists are
audio and video, and a daily chart From planes to mackerel winning votes by offering
Economist.com 23 The Rohingya diaspora New battlegrounds more generous welfare. How
After page 40
E-mail: newsletters and Unwanted everywhere can mainstream parties
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25 Personal data
Audio edition:available online League of sceptics
to download each Friday Privacy in peril 44 Ukraine and Russia
Economist.com/audioedition 26 Chinese rap Calling a bully a bully
No swearing or else
44 Finland’s president
Mr Congeniality
United States 46 Charlemagne
27 Shutdown politics Torn over Tehran
Power off
Volume 426 Number 9076
28 The federal budget Britain Syria Turkey’s offensive
Published since September 1843 Busted against the Kurds complicates
to take part in "a severe contest between 47 The politics of tax
intelligence, which presses forward, and 29 Drug trafficking Sacred cows no more an already chaotic war, page 36.
an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing The powder room Can the Kurds keep control of
our progress." 48 Northern Ireland their territory? Page 37
29 Gerrymandering
Editorial offices in London and also: A little more conversation
Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Chicago, Madrid, Say goodbye to Goofy
Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Nairobi, New Delhi, 49 Bagehot
New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, 30 Thrift and profit The Midlands engine
Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Washington DC Dollar General
31 Race and horses
Rodeo drive
32 Lexington
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