The Economist USA - 31.08.2019

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Contents

The world this week

7 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 Populism

Democracy’s enemies

10 Brexit

Who’s gonna stop him?

11 Opioids

Avoidable pain

11 Security in Asia

Slight club

12 Vertical farming

Plant power

Letters

14 On cash, the railways,

Canada, Venezuela,

Wilhelm II, harmony,

contracts

Briefing

15 Hungary

The entanglement

of powers

United States

19 The American economy

20 America’s rip-off estate

agents

21 The other primary

21 Campaign swag

22 Criminal-justice policy

23 LexingtonThe

Kochtopus’s garden

The Americas

24 Colombia’s impoverished

Pacific coast

25 BelloBolsonaro and the

Amazon

Asia

26 The feud between Japan

and South Korea

27 Tourism in Thailand

28 Saving New Zealand’s

parrots

28 Corruption in India

29 BanyanEthnic conflict in

Myanmar

China

30 A crackdown on gambling

31 Closing a critical

think-tank

32 ChaguanSubduing Hong

Kong by stealth

Middle East & Africa

33 Israel v Iran

34 Stalemate in Algeria

35 New African airlines

35 End times in Congo?

36 Trouble in Botswana

ChaguanHow China

might bring Hong Kong

to heel without sending

troops from the

mainland, page 32

On the cover

Cynicism is gnawing at
Western democracies: leader,
page 9. How the government
of Viktor Orban hollowed out
Hungary: briefing,page 15

• Who will stop a no-deal
  Brexit?Boris Johnson has
  sidelined Parliament and set a
  course to leave the European
  Union without a deal. MPs
  can—and must—act now to
  stop him: leader,page 10. The
  government sends MPs home,
  page 41. An unlikely bunch of
  Conservatives are rebelling:
  Bagehot, page 44


• Opioids: pain and payouts
  Legal settlements alone will not
  solve America’s opioid crisis:
  leader,page 11. Drugmakers in
  the dock, page 47


• Why vertical farming is on
  the up Would you like some
  vertically grown mizuna with
  that? Leader,page 12. A new way
  to make farming stack up,
  page 60


• Macron re-JovenatedFrance’s
  president reclaims his country ’s
  international role,page 37