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Volume 432 Number 9154

Europe

42 Russian subversion in the

Baltics

43 Greece’s tricky budget

44 The rise of rosé

44 The Kaiser’s property

45 Fire in the Arctic

46 CharlemagneCarless

cities

Britain

47 Boris’s game of chicken

48 No-deal’s threat to

Northern Ireland

49 BagehotThe Tory

revolutionaries

International

50 Are Western democracies

becoming ungovernable?

Business

52 How to beat Bezos

53 SoftBank’s double Vision

54 BartlebyKeeping staff

happy

55 A generic merger

55 Tragedy in India Inc

56 Schumpeter Online food

fights

Finance & economics

57 The Powell pirouette

58 ButtonwoodUnalloyed

blessings

59 The LSE’s monster trade

59 The Mittelstand and

inequality

60 British class-action cases

61 Luring back Portuguese

emigrants

61 Wall Street and Warren

62 Free exchangeEmerging-

markets’brokendreams

Science & technology

65 The rise of planetology

66 Mayan human sacrifice

67 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

Graphic detail

73 Highinternetuseandstatesupporthelpcountriesditchcash

Obituary

74 Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan’s longest-serving DA