The Economist - USA (2019-09-21)

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Contents

The world this week

9 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 A warming world

The climate issue

14 The Saudi attacks

Abqaiq the powder keg

16 Israel

King Bibi’s reign is ending

20 Regulating rent

Controlyourinstincts

Letters

21 Onthepurposeofa

company

Briefing

26 Climatechange

Whatgoesup

United States

31 Green New Deals

33 Rent control returns

33 The new new NSA

34 Rudy Giuliani’s adventures

35 LexingtonMark Sanford

The Americas

38 Drought threatens the

Panama Canal

39 El Alto and Evo Morales

40 BelloThe left’s love of

petroleum

Asia

41 Planning for rising seas

42 Haze in South-East Asia

44 Chinese students in

Australia

44 Swine flu marches on

46 BanyanDemocrats,

dictatorsandclimate

China

47 Climate targets

48 Einstein on display

49 ChaguanAtheists get

religion

Middle East & Africa

51 Conflict in the Gulf

53 Oil markets

54 Israel’s election

55 South Sudan

55 Drought in Malawi

BagehotThis week David

Cameron published his

memoirs. Here we print

an extract from the book

he might have written

had he won the

referendum, page 65

On the cover

Global warming touches on
everything The Economist
writes about. In this issue we
feature a series of articlesthat
look at climate change and
how to cope with it. The
stripes on our cover were
developed by Ed Hawkins of
the University of Reading.
They represent the years from
1850 to 2018 and the colour
marks each year’s
temperature, compared with
theaveragein1971-

• Iran’s dangerous game
  Nobody wants a war in the
  Middle East. That is why
  aggression by Iran and its proxies
  needs a tough response: leader,
  page 14. A strike on Saudi Arabia
  moves a shadowy conflict closer
  to open war, page 51. Saudi
  Aramco tries asserting control
  amid chaos, page 53


• Lessons from a Wall Street
  titanHow Stephen Schwarzman
  built a legacy: Schumpeter,
  page 76


• Why rent controls are
  wrong-headedCapping how
  much landlords get paid is the
  wrong way to help Generation
  Rent: leader,page 20. High
  housing costs are once again
  leading Democrats towards rent
  control, page 33


• Goddess of the Taiwan
  StraitCommunist Party
  bosses love Mazu, a folk
  goddess of the sea: Chaguan,
  page 49