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Europe

43 Russian subversion in the

Baltics

44 Greece’s tricky budget

45 The rise of rosé

45 The Kaiser’s property

46 Fire in the Arctic

47 CharlemagneCarless

cities

Britain

48 Boris’s game of chicken

49 No-deal’s threat to

Northern Ireland

50 BagehotThe Tory

revolutionaries

International

51 Are Western democracies

becoming ungovernable?

Business

53 How to beat Bezos

54 SoftBank’s double Vision

55 BartlebyKeeping staff

happy

56 A generic merger

56 Tragedy in India Inc

57 Schumpeter Online food

fights

Finance & economics

58 The Powell pirouette

59 ButtonwoodUnalloyed

blessings

60 The LSE’s monster trade

60 The Mittelstand and

inequality

61 British class-action cases

62 Luring back Portuguese

emigrants

62 Wall Street and Warren

63 Free exchangeEmerging-

markets’brokendreams

Science & technology

64 The rise of planetology

65 Mayan human sacrifice

66 Power from the night air

Books & arts

68 The Bauhaus

69 The disinformation age

70 Mosquitos

70 Sporting fiction

Economic & financial indicators

72 Statisticson 42 economies

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73 Highinternetuseandstatesupporthelpcountriesditchcash

Obituary

74 Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan’s longest-serving DA