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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 Elizabeth Warren

A plan for American

capitalism

10 India’s economy

The muddle that Modi

made

10 Putin’s world

Thespywhocamein

fromthecold

11 China’sUighurs

Exposingthegulag

12 Coralreefs

Nolongerinthepink

Letters

16 Onanti-Semitism,French

addresses,Igbo,people’s

juries,automated

markets

Briefing

18 Americancapitalism

ElizabethWarren’splans

Specialreport:India

ThetwoModis

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

Klobucharforsanity

The Americas

29 The chastening of

Justin Trudeau

30 Shootout in Sinaloa

31 BelloRage in Chile

32 Colombia’s narco-hippos

32 ElectoralfraudinBolivia?

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

famousrock

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