2019-09-28_The_Economist_-_UK

The EconomistSeptember 28th 2019 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Politics

Leaders

13 Twaddledee

The reckoning

14 Twitterdum

The promise and the

perils of impeachment

16 Quantum computers

Supreme achievement

16 The future of the office

Work in progress

18 Agriculture

Bureaucratic herbicide

Letters

20 On economists,

Colombia, Syria, Stanley

Baldwin, the Bible, China,

Tories

Briefing

23 Impeachment

Telephone justice

Special report: Poverty

in America

Pity the children

Afterpage 52

Britain

27 The Supreme Court rules

28 The Jennifer Arcuri affair

30 Labour’s conference

32 Private schools in peril

32 Online old-boy networks

33 Thomas Cook checks out

34 BagehotLabour after

Corbyn

Europe

35 Hope and fear in Ukraine

36 French addresses

36 Austria’s election

37 German climate policy

38 Turkey floods its heritage

38 Estonian booze

40 CharlemagneMacron’s

long game

United States

41 The Supreme Court

42 Electronic monitoring

43 Paying college athletes

43 Opinion polling

44 Primary health care

46 LexingtonLessons from

Harlan County

The Americas

47 Justin Trudeau’s troubles

48 BelloThe war against

corruption

Middle East & Africa

49 Better seeds for Africa

50 Natty Nigerians

51 Ivory Coast wobbles

51 Protests in Egypt

52 America’s role in Syria

Free exchangeFinancial

ructions are a reminder

that post-crisis reforms

will face severe tests,

page 88

On the cover

On September 24th, the day
they met in New York, the
American president and the
British prime minister both fell
foul of their country’s
institutions. Boris Johnson:
leader,page 13. Britain’s
Supreme Court rules, page 27.
European views on Brexit,
page 95. Donald Trump: leader,
page 14. A shift in America’s
political landscape,page 23

• WeWork and the future of
  the officeDoes its implosion
  pose a systemic risk? page 76.
  White-collar workers face a
  two-tier office system: leader,
  page 16. Corporate digs are
  being reshaped, page 75. Office
  design that treats workers like
  drones: Bartleby, page 77. Thank
  goodness for stockmarkets:
  Schumpeter, page 82


• China’s other MuslimsThe
  repression of Islam is spreading
  from Xinjiang,page 58


• Poverty in America: a special
  reportThe secret is to focus on
  children, says Idrees Kahloon,
  afterpage 52


• Schrödinger’s cheetahA
  demonstration of quantum
  computing is a defining moment
  for a field prone to hype: leader,
  page 16. How a quantum
  computer can outperform a
  classical one,page 91