The EconomistDecember 7th 2019 5
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Contents
The world this week
9 A summary of political
and business news
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 Sergey Brin and Larry
Page leave Alphabet
Search result
18 Climate change
Reverse gear
Letters
20 On billionaires, groceries,
the National Health
Service, wind power,
Kurt Vonnegut
Briefing
24 Negative emissions
The chronic complexity
of carbon capture
Special report:
Asian tigers
Still hunting
Afterpage 46
Britain
29 If the Tories win...
30 ...and if they don’t
31 Rehabilitating terrorists
32 Swing seats: Wrexham
32 The campaign in quotes
34 London’s election
34 Super-safe seats
35 BagehotPants on fire
Europe
37 German politics
38 NATO comes to London
39 France faces huge strikes
39 Turmoil in Malta
40 China and the Czechs
41 Charlemagne The Five
Stars burn out
United States
42 Refugee resettlement
43 Impeachment’s next phase
44 Christian adoptions
45 An American theocracy
46 LexingtonJoe Biden’s
stickiness
The Americas
47 “Wexit” in Canada
48 Desi Bouterse’s murder
conviction
49 BelloJair López Obrador
Middle East & Africa
51 Iraq’s uncertain future
52 Arabs lose faith
52 Repression in Iran
53 Algeria’s unfair election
53 Sudan’s terrible traffic
54 Identity in Africa
Bagehot Truth has been
the first casualty of
Britain’s election,page 35
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 29. If the Lib Dems surge,
they could hurt the Tories as
much as Labour,page 89
- 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 24 - 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 38 - 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 46 - 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 83. And by our
own staff: this year our writers
went to the Moon and back,
page 86