The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 3
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Contents
The world this week
6 A summary of political
and business news
Leaders
9 Elizabeth Warren
A plan for American
capitalism
10 India’s economy
The muddle that Modi
made
10 Putin’s world
The spy who came in
from the cold
11 China’s Uighurs
Exposing the gulag
12 Coral reefs
No longer in the pink
Letters
16 On anti-Semitism, French
addresses, Igbo, people’s
juries, automated
markets
Briefing
18 American capitalism
Elizabeth Warren’s plans
Special report: India
The two Modis
Afterpage 42
United States
21 Impeachment
22 Felons’ voting rights
24 Closing Rikers Island jail
24 California’s blackouts
26 Ending Open Skies spying
28 LexingtonAmy
Klobuchar for sanity
The Americas
29 The chastening of
Justin Trudeau
30 Shootout in Sinaloa
31 BelloRage in Chile
32 Colombia’s narco-hippos
32 Electoral fraud in Bolivia?
Asia
33 Asia’s dying coral
34 Thailand’s ruthless king
35 The Solomon Islands
35 Crumbling Karachi
36 BanyanNorth Korea’s
petulance
38 Oppositionless Indonesia
38 Climbing Australia’s m0st
famous rock
China
40 The Uighurs’ plight
41 Beijing’s gay nightlife
42 ChaguanTaking Zhou
Enlai to the stage
Middle East & Africa
43 Russia in Africa
44 Carving up northern Syria
45 South Africa’s reeling
opposition
46 Big protests in Lebanon
ChaguanZhou Enlai,
Mao’s chief aide, was a
hero to some Chinese.
The Communist Party
prefers to forget why,
page 42
On the cover
Elizabeth Warren, the
Democratic front-runner, has
too little time for markets or
business: leader,page 9. Her
many plans would reshape
American capitalism—for
better and worse: briefing,
page 18. The case for Amy
Klobuchar, the senator from
Minnesota: Lexington,page 28
- It’s Putin’s world now The
West should learn some lessons
from the success of Russia’s
president: leader,page 10.
Vladimir Putin’s increasing
influence in Africa, page 43.
A carve-up of northern Syria,
page 44 - The IPO racket Lots is wrong,
but try finding something better:
Schumpeter,page 61 - Modi’s India: a special report
The country is stumbling because
its prime minister has not
pursued his reformist instincts.
See our special report after
page 42. Narendra Modi is
damaging the country ’s
economy as well as its
democracy: leader, page 10 - How to build a fake-news
detector Lithuanians, besieged
by disinformation, are fighting
back,page 70