INSIDE: A 14-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT ON MIGRATION Who’s in charge in Iran? Opioids in a world of pain America’s tangled voting laws Big-headed babies, big-brained parents MAY 28TH–JUNE 3RD 2016 Life in the fast lane: CEOs and F1 A nuclear nightmare Kim Jong Un’s growing arsenal Contents The Economist May 28th 2016 5 8 The world this week Asia 33 America and Vietnam Leaders Pull the other one 11 North Korea’s weapons 34 Afghanistan’s Taliban A nuclear nightmare Aiming for the head 12 Austria’s election 35 India’s deep south Disaster averted—for now Southern comfort 12 Online platforms Nostrums for rostrums China 13 American elections 36 Retirement America’s Voting wrongs China’s Florida Voting rules electoral laws are a recipe for 14 Opioids 37 Social media chaos in November: leader, The ecstasy and the agony The dark art of astroturfing page13. Today’s voting-rights On the cover 38 Banyan disputes are less clear-cut It is past time for the world Letters Disturbing the China dream than those of the civil-rights to get serious about North era, but they are inflammatory 16 On genomics, migrants, Korea’s nuclear ambitions: all the same, page 23. China, London, cronies, Middle East and Africa leader, page11. Kim Jong Un Compulsory voting is hardest country living is on the home straight to 39 Iranian politics to enact in the places where it making his country a serious Who’s in charge? would make most difference: nuclear power. Nobody knows Briefing 40 Fighting Islamic State Free exchange, page 68 how to stop him, pages19-22 19 Nuclear North Korea Fallujah, again By the rockets’ red glare 41 Israeli politics He’s back! 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Printed by Quad/Graphics, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 8 The world this week The Economist May 28th 2016 New government, old problems Bank, has repeatedly derided this would remove a “lingering Politics Romero Jucá, Brazil’s planning efforts to secure peace with the vestige ofthe cold war”. China, minister, stepped aside after Palestinians. however, worries that tapes were leaked in which he America’s efforts to improve its appeared to suggest that the A series ofbombings hit two relationship with Vietnam is impeachment ofthe president, government strongholds on aimed at keeping it in check. Dilma Rousseff, would blunt Syria’s coast, killing as many an investigation into the multi- as100 people. billion-dollar scandal centred on Petrobras, the state-con- The government and opposi- trolled oil company. MrJucá, tion leaders in Burundi started one ofthe targets ofthe in- talks to resolve a crisis in vestigation, says his remarks which more than 1,000 people were misinterpreted. He was are thought to have been only recently appointed by the killed. But the government interim president, Michel excluded key opposition fig- Alexander Van derBellen, a Temer. The new government ures from the talks, reducing formerhead ofthe Green proposed several reform mea- the chances ofa successful party, won Austria’s presi- sures, including a cap on the outcome. dential election by just 31,000 growth ofpublic spending. Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as votes, defeating Norbert Hofer The monetary-policy commit- Taiwan’s new president. She is ofthe Freedom Party. Had he Cuba’s Communist govern- tee ofNigeria’s central bank the island’s first female leader, won this (largely ceremonial) ment said it would legalise voted to allow the currency, and the second from the post, Mr Hofer would have small and medium-sized the naira, to float against the Democratic Progressive Party, been the first far-right head of enterprises.