2019-11-09_The_Economist

The EconomistNovember 9th 2019 3

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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 The future of Europe

A continent in peril

10 Cameroon’s forgotten

war

Words and weapons

10 Squeezing the rich

In defence of billionaires

12 Fakenudes

Sex,liesandpolitics

14 Genetics

A designforlife

Letters

17 OntheBible,Greece,

Congress,Chile,Syria,

Canada,windenergy,

AtlanticCity

Briefing

18 Macron’sviewofthe

world

A presidentona mission

United States

21 Warrencare

22 Off-year elections

23 Quid pro...so what?

23 Political advertising

24 Milwaukee’s north side

25 Odessa on the Intracoastal

26 LexingtonThe veterans

ofAmerica’slongwars

The Americas

27 The protests in Bolivia

28 Jamaica’s successful IMF

programme

Asia

31 An Asian trade deal

32 Pakistan’s opposition

34 Cycle rickshaws in

Bangladesh

34 Thailand’s bulky monks

35 The Fukushima accident

35 Taiwan and China

36 BanyanPacificpolitics

China

37 Hong Kong’s hostility to

mainland Chinese

38 Debating face-scans

40 ChaguanThe market and

mother tongues

Middle East & Africa

41 The crisis in Cameroon

43 Iran and the bomb

43 Jerusalem’s new

necropolis

44 Saudi Arabia’s reforms

LexingtonThe wars in

Iraq and Afghanistan

have cost most Americans

nothing. That is why they

continue, page 26

On the cover

Europe is “on the edge of a
precipice”, says France’s
president. Is he right? Leader,
page 9. In a blunt interview,
Emmanuel Macron spoke to
The Economistabout Europe’s
fragile place in a hostile world:
briefing, page 18. A government
led by Jeremy Corbyn would
present a radical challenge to
Britain’s global alliances:
Bagehot,page 51

• In defence of billionaires
  Large personal fortunes are an
  unreliable guide to where
  government policy has gone
  wrong: leader,page 10. Have
  billionaires accumulated their
  wealth illegitimately? Page 67


• Cameroon’s forgotten war
  A bastion of stability in central
  Africa could fall apart if outsiders
  do not help: leader,page 10.
  A report from a conflict that has
  driven 500,000 from their
  homes, page 41


• A hard-headed guide to
  diversityHow to make your firm
  more inclusive,page 55


• Our poll of Britain’s swing
  seatsThe first in our five-part
  series of constituency polls finds
  the Conservatives struggling to
  win in a crucial Midlands
  marginal,page 49