The Economist - USA (2019-09-28)

The EconomistSeptember 28th 2019 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Politics

Leaders

11 Twitterdum

The promise and the

perils of impeachment

12 Twaddledee

The reckoning

14 Quantum computers

Supremeachievement

14 Thefutureoftheoffice

Workinprogress

16 Agriculture

Bureaucraticherbicide

Letters

18 Oneconomists,

Colombia,Syria,Stanley

Baldwin,theBible,China,

Tories

Briefing

20 Impeachment

Telephonejustice

Specialreport:Poverty

inAmerica

PoorAmerica

Afterpage 42

United States

23 The Supreme Court

24 Electronic monitoring

26 Paying college athletes

26 Opinion polling

28 Primary health care

30 LexingtonLessons from

HarlanCounty

The Americas

31 Justin Trudeau’s troubles

32 BelloThe war against

corruption

Asia

33 Japan’s risky tax hike

34 Prisons in the Philippines

35 Sinophobia in Kazakhstan

35 Immigration to South

Korea

36 Malaysia’s youth vote

38 BanyanProtests in

Indonesia

China

39 Repressing Islam

42 ChaguanPropaganda

blunders in Hong Kong

Middle East & Africa

43 Better seeds for Africa

44 Natty Nigerians

45 Ivory Coast wobbles

45 Protests in Egypt

46 America’s role in Syria

Free exchangeFinancial

ructions are a reminder

that post-crisis reforms

will face severe tests,

page 70

On the cover

On September 24th, the day
they met in New York, the
American president and the
British prime minister both fell
foul of their country’s
institutions. Donald Trump:
leader, page 12. A shift in
America’s political landscape,
page 20. Boris Johnson: leader,
page 11. Britain’s Supreme
Court rules, page 52. European
viewsonBrexit,page 75

• WeWork and the future of
  the officeDoes its implosion
  pose a systemic risk? page 59.
  White-collar workers face a
  two-tier office system: leader,
  page 14. Corporate digs are
  being reshaped, page 58. Office
  design that treats workers like
  drones: Bartleby, page 60. Thank
  goodness for stockmarkets:
  Schumpeter, page 64


• China’s other MuslimsThe
  repression of Islam is spreading
  from Xinjiang,page 39


• Poverty in America: a special
  reportThe secret is to focus on
  children, says Idrees Kahloon,
  afterpage 42


• Schrödinger’s cheetahA
  demonstration of quantum
  computing is a defining moment
  for a field prone to hype: leader,
  page 14. How a quantum
  computer can outperform a
  classical one,page 71