The EconomistSeptember 28th 2019 5
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Contents
The world this week
8 A summary of political
and business news
Politics
Leaders
11 Twitterdum
The promise and the
perils of impeachment
12 Twaddledee
The reckoning
14 Quantum computers
Supremeachievement
14 Thefutureoftheoffice
Workinprogress
16 Agriculture
Bureaucraticherbicide
Letters
18 Oneconomists,
Colombia,Syria,Stanley
Baldwin,theBible,China,
Tories
Briefing
20 Impeachment
Telephonejustice
Specialreport:Poverty
inAmerica
PoorAmerica
Afterpage 42
United States
23 The Supreme Court
24 Electronic monitoring
26 Paying college athletes
26 Opinion polling
28 Primary health care
30 LexingtonLessons from
HarlanCounty
The Americas
31 Justin Trudeau’s troubles
32 BelloThe war against
corruption
Asia
33 Japan’s risky tax hike
34 Prisons in the Philippines
35 Sinophobia in Kazakhstan
35 Immigration to South
Korea
36 Malaysia’s youth vote
38 BanyanProtests in
Indonesia
China
39 Repressing Islam
42 ChaguanPropaganda
blunders in Hong Kong
Middle East & Africa
43 Better seeds for Africa
44 Natty Nigerians
45 Ivory Coast wobbles
45 Protests in Egypt
46 America’s role in Syria
Free exchangeFinancial
ructions are a reminder
that post-crisis reforms
will face severe tests,
page 70
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. Donald Trump:
leader, page 12. A shift in
America’s political landscape,
page 20. Boris Johnson: leader,
page 11. Britain’s Supreme
Court rules, page 52. European
viewsonBrexit,page 75
- WeWork and the future of
the officeDoes its implosion
pose a systemic risk? page 59.
White-collar workers face a
two-tier office system: leader,
page 14. Corporate digs are
being reshaped, page 58. Office
design that treats workers like
drones: Bartleby, page 60. Thank
goodness for stockmarkets:
Schumpeter, page 64 - China’s other MuslimsThe
repression of Islam is spreading
from Xinjiang,page 39 - Poverty in America: a special
reportThe secret is to focus on
children, says Idrees Kahloon,
afterpage 42 - Schrödinger’s cheetahA
demonstration of quantum
computing is a defining moment
for a field prone to hype: leader,
page 14. How a quantum
computer can outperform a
classical one,page 71