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7 The world this week Asia 29 South-East Asia Leaders More money, less 9 Education technology 30 Religion in Indonesia Brain gains Borneo again 10 Britain and the EU 31 Inequality in South Korea Facing up to Brexit Degrees of disenchantment 11 American health care 32 Banyan Revive, don't repeal Fighting jihadists in the Phitippines 11 Economic reform in Un natural selection American health care With China their replacement plan stalted, 12 Helping fragile Republicans must now make 33 Debt fears the work: On the cover Why monitors matter Cause for optimism leader, page 11. They control Together, technology and 34 Succession ponla every levet of government, but teachers can revamp Letters A sudden purge can Repubticans getanything schools: leader, page 9. 34 Last rites for Liu Xiaobo done? Page 19. The ideology Education technology is 14 On students, China, Willy Brandt, America, drugs, Stifled laments behind the failing health-care changing what happens bill, page 20 when a child goesto school, Taiwan, book titles page 15 and Africa Briefing 35 China in Africa 15 Edtech A thousan,c1 golden stars The Economist online Machine learning 36 Nigerian politics Daily analysis and opinion to Who wilt succeed Buhari? supplementthe print edition, plus 37 Arab media audio and video, and a daily chart Exodus and the airwaves Economist.com 19 Congress Can't live with or withoutit 37 Syria E-mail: newsletters and Att quiet on the southern mobile edition 20 Republican ideas front? Re-redistribute Economist.com/email 38 Drugs in the Middle East Print edition: available online by 22 Voting laws Captured by Captagon Kris Kobach's crusade Brexit As long as the 7pw time each Thursday governmentis in denialabout Economist.com/print 23 California Brexit'strade-offs, Britain Paris-on-sea Special report: and Audio edition: available online Pakistan faces disaster: leader, page 10. todownload each Friday 24 Cities Britain cannotexpect an á la Economist.com/audioedition Schoot for mayors Hissing cousins carte Brexit, page 43. British After page 38 24 Presidential politics has become scarity bad- appointments tempered: Bagehot, page 46 The The missing government Economist 25 Lexington 39 Italy's migrant surge Gerrymander y Terminator Unwelcome choices Volume 424 Number 9050 40 The French army Published since5eptember 1843 The Americas General v president to ta ke part in "a severe cantes( between intelligence, which presses forward, and 26 NAFTA 40 's pricey stadiums an unworthy, timid ignorante obstructing Extra time and punishment our progreso." Trump's plans for his neighbours 41 Populism in Poland offices in London and aLso: Atlanta, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, , 27 Bello Dependantjudiciary Lima, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Nairobi, New Delhi, NewYork, Paris, San Francisco, The long economic squeeze 42 Charlemagne Sáo Pauto, Scout Shanghai, , , 28 Che Guevara Macron Washington DC Local anti-hero Election monitoring Foreign 28 Sex workers in Colombia .!.; observers and Local citizen- Fleeing watchers need respect, encouragement and cash:

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6 Contents The Economist July 22nd 2017

Britain Science and technology 43 Britain and the EU 61 Gene drives The six flavours of Brexit Resistance is inevitable 44 Public opinion 62 Softening? Admiring the scenery 46 Bagehot 64 Volcanology Bad-tempered Britain A song of ice and fire

International Books and arts 47 Spreading 65 Soviet history Conflicts of interestJared Gene drivesA promising tool How to unrig an election The war for memory Kushner's White Housejob for dealing with pests and could harm both hisfirm and 66 Hunter-gatherer pathogens runsinto an °Id trustin policymaking, page 49. Business enemy, page 61 Living off the Land Six months into his presidency 49 The Trump family (1) 's conflicts of After a Kushy Landing 66 Colonial atrocities interest Look worse, and his Hearing their críes Subscription service 50 The Trump family (2) handling ofthem less 67 Victorian history For our Latest subscription offers, visit Not one to avoid a conflict Economist.com/offers principled, even than many Summer of '58 For subscription service, ['tease contact by expected, page 5o 52 3D printing at home telephone, fax, web or mai( at the detallo Model citizens 67 Alexander Calder provided below: Sculpture in motion 52 Brazil's Labour reform North America Bye-bye, Benito 68 Johnson The Economist Subscription Center The Americanisms are P.O. Box 46978, St. Louis, MO 63146-6978 53 Exorcists Telephone: +1 800 456 6086 coming! • Facsimile: +1 866 856 8075 Who you gonna call? E-mail: [email protected] 54 Schumpeter Latin America 8 Mexico 70 Economic and financia( The Economist Subscription Center Reinventing Uber P.O. Box 46979, St. Louis, MO 63146-6979 indicators Telephone: +1 636 449 5702 Statistics on 42 economies, Facsimile: +1 636 449 5703 Finance and economics plus a closer Look at E-mail: [email protected] 55 China Inc cigarette prices Subscription for 1 year (51 issues) Reinstatement United States US $158.25 (plus tax) Canada CA $158.25 (plus tan) Chinese state enterprises 58 Africa's savings and Obituary Latin America US 4289 (plus tax) credit co-operatives Gpvernment-owned 72 Maryam Mirzakhani Fixing the roof businesses are becoming Adding up 58 Principal commercial offices: more, not less, important. 25 StJames's Street, London swia 1HG Thatis bad for China and the KKR's succession plan Ter: +44 20 7830 7000 world: leader, page 11. 59 Buttonwood Ruede l'Athénée 32 Reforms meantto fix China's The bonds that break 1206 Geneva, Sodtzerland ailing state-owned firms 6o Free exchange Ter: +4122 566 2470 instead have emboldened Explaining populism 750 3rd Avenue, 5th Froor, New York, NY 10017 them, page 55 Tel: +1212 541 0500 1301 Cityplaza Four, 12 Taikoo Wan Road, Taikoo Shing, TeL +852 2585 3888 Other commercialoffices: Chicago, Dubai, Franlcfurt, , Paris, San Francisco and Singapore

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