The Economist - USA (2019-12-07)

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Contents

The world this week

11 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 Britain’s election

The nightmare before

Christmas

14 NATO’s summit

Good, bad and ugly

14 Unrest in the Arab world

System failure

16 SergeyBrinandLarry

PageleaveAlphabet

Searchresult

18 Climatechange

Reversegear

Letters

20 Onbillionaires,groceries,

theNationalHealth

Service,windpower,

KurtVonnegut

Briefing

22 Negativeemissions

Thechroniccomplexity

ofcarboncapture

Specialreport:

Asiantigers

Stillhunting

Afterpage 44

United States

25 Refugee resettlement

26 Impeachment’s next phase

28 Christian adoptions

29 An American theocracy

30 LexingtonJoe Biden’s

stickiness

The Americas

31 “Wexit” in Canada

32 Desi Bouterse’s murder

conviction

34 BelloJair López Obrador

Asia

35 India’s wilting economy

36 Smuggling in Central Asia

37 Measles and Samoa

37 Falsehood in Singapore

38 BanyanOnions in Indian

politics

China

41 Battling in the UN

42 The China-Russia border

44 ChaguanMore babies

needed, without quotas

Middle East & Africa

45 Iraq’s uncertain future

46 Arabs lose faith

46 Repression in Iran

47 Algeria’s unfair election

47 Sudan’s terrible traffic

48 Identity in Africa

Bagehot Truth has been

the first casualty of

Britain’s election,page 57

On the cover

A divided country faces an
election that will tear it still
further apart: leader, page 13.
Under Boris Johnson, the
spectre of no-deal would
return in December 2020,
page 54. If the Lib Dems surge,
they could hurt the Tories as
muchasLabour,page 85

• The carbon-capture
  conundrumThinking seriously
  about pulling carbon dioxide out
  of the atmosphere is difficult,
  but necessary: leader, page 18.
  Climate policy depends on being
  able to trap carbon dioxide. That
  is hard: briefing, page 22


• NATO: the good, the bad, the
  uglyNew troublemakers have
  emerged in the alliance: leader,
  page 14. NATO marks its 70th
  anniversary in chaotic fashion,
  page 50


• A special report on the Asian
  tigers After half a century of
  success, South Korea, Taiwan,
  Hong Kong and Singapore must
  reinvent their economies, after
  page 44


• Our books of the yearThe
  best books of 2019 were about
  the IRA, Harper Lee’s lost work,
  rational economics and an Ohio
  housewife,page 79. And by our
  own staff: this year our writers
  went to the Moon and back,
  page 82