The Economist - USA (2021-11-13)

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Contents

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On the cover

The world this week

13 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

15 Russia

Putin’s repression

16 The end of life

Deciding on death

18 Financial contagion

China’s other problem

18 Afghanistan

War, drought, famine

20 Nuclear power

Discreet charm

Letters

24 On economics, Balkan

bridges, Shakespeare,

mission statements,

hydrogen, Facebook,

French, Polexit

Briefing

28 Russian repression

Manacled in Moscow

United States

31 The southern border

34 Infrastructure year

36 Durham’s indictments

36 Necessary nuclear power

38 LexingtonHispanic

Republicans

The Americas

39 Venezuela’s autocrat...

40 ...and Nicaragua’s

42 Bello Brazil’s economy

Asia

43 South Korean industry

44 Education in Bangladesh...

45 ...and in Pakistan

45 Myanmar’s collaborators

46 BanyanThe great board

game

China

47 State-sponsored hacking

48 The prison lives of Hong

Kong’s dissidents

50 ChaguanWhy aim for

zero covid?

Middle East & Africa

51 Vision 2030 at five

52 Sex and hotels in Morocco

53 Iran’s weapon of choice

53 Rebels in Congo

54 Liberia’s quest for justice

Vladimir Putin’s new era of
repression will lead to
confrontation with the West:
leader,page 15.Russia has
shifted from autocracy to
dictatorship: briefing,page 28

China’s other debt problem
Evergrande is not the only
looming danger in the
mainland’s financial system:
leader, page 18.The government
sets its sights on sleazy ties
between businesses and banks,
page 73

Nuclear power: safe and
essentialIt makes fighting
climate change a lot easier,
leader, page 20.Rolls-Royce and
the British government are
betting that small reactors can
fix the industry ’s tricky
economics, page 59.Will the
climate crisis force America to
reconsider nuclear power?
Page 36

Biden’s inflation headache
A broad pickup in prices puts
pressure on the Fed to raise
rates,page 75

The right to dieAssisted dying is
spreading, but too many are still
denied this basic freedom:
leader,page 16.In the West the
right to die is rapidly becoming
legal and accepted,page 62

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