The Economist UK - 16.11.2019

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

13 The media business

The $650bn binge

14 Latin America

Was there a coup in

Bolivia?

14 Pension costs

Dependants’ day

15 Immigration policy

Unlock that door

16 Aircraft-carriers

Sink or swim

Letters

19 On Elizabeth Warren, the

Berlin Wall, southern

Democrats, army food,

William Rehnquist

Briefing

20 Aircraft-carriers

Too big to fail?

Special report: Migration

A world of walls

After page 42

Britain

23 The politics of the NHS

24 Polling commuterland

26 Tactical voting

28 Parliament’s class of 2019

28 The campaign in quotes

29 Spending splurges

29 Floods on the trail

30 BagehotThe Davos Party

Europe

31 Germany’s deficit rule

32 Spain’s election

33 The litigious Irish

33 Da Vinci’s wine

34 CharlemagneEurope’s

two paths

United States

35 Impeachment hearings

36 Automatic clean-slate laws

37 The economy

38 Extreme broadcasting

38 Delta history

40 LexingtonTrump and

Erdogan

The Americas

41 Evo Morales quits

42 Mexican marriage

Middle East & Africa

43 An assassination in Gaza

44 Salafists in Libya

44 Africa’s big-agri problem

45 West Africa’s gold rush

46 Gourmet grubs in Congo

On the cover

Creative destruction in the
entertainment business has
had blockbuster results:
leader,page 13. Media giants
are battling for viewers’
attention. There will be blood:
briefing,page 62

• Bolivia: a coup or not a coup?
  The armed forces spoke up for
  democracy and the constitution
  against Evo Morales’s attempt
  at dictatorship,page 14. The
  former president leaves a
  dangerously divided country,
  page 41


• Aircraft-carriers, mighty big
  targetsWhen it comes to the
  largest ships, bigger isn’t always
  better: leader,page 16. More
  costly than ever, and more
  vulnerable too, the queens of
  the fleet are in trouble: briefing,
  page 20


• Italy’s ancient oligarchs
  Octogenarians are shaking up
  corporate Italy,page 59


• A special report on migration
  The simplest way to make the
  world richer is to allow more
  people to move. Yet the politics
  of migration have never been
  more toxic, afterpage 42.
  Barriers to movement make the
  world poorer. Only voters can
  remove them: leader, page 15