Sep 15th 2018

1843-2018: A manifesto for renewing liberalism

The world this week

Leaders

The Economist at 175

A manifesto for renewing liberalism

Success turned liberals into a complacent elite. They need to rekindle their desire for radicalism

The Supreme Court

America’s highest court needs term limits

Deepening partisanship is bad for the court and bad for America

Britain and the European Union

Selling the Chequers plan

Theresa May’s Chequers plan is in big trouble at home. More flexibility from the EU would help its chances

Reckless in Lusaka

Zambia’s looming debt crisis is a warning for the rest of Africa

A decade after debt relief, the country is horribly in hock again

Ma where he came from?

China will struggle to produce another Jack Ma

No entrepreneur has defined the country’s transformation like Alibaba’s founder

Letters

Letters to the editor

Briefing

And Brett makes five

How America’s Supreme Court became so politicised

And what you can expect it to do next

Essay

Liberalism

The Economist at 175

United States

Make America Germany Again

The Democratic Party’s left flank has ideas for fixing the country

Sleaze and the city

An exceptionally underhanded smear lands Andrew Cuomo in hot water

Suing spies

America’s government is putting foreign cyber-spies in the dock

Minority politicians

Two Muslim women are headed for Congress

It’s emotional

More and more “emotional-support animals” are boarding planes

Lexington

Gary Johnson for liberty

The Americas

The fears of a clown

Guatemala’s government races to scrap an anti-corruption commission

Whack-a-mole

Colombia’s new president calls off talks with a leftist insurgent group

Bello

Why backing coups in Latin America is a bad idea

Asia

No nukes is fake news

The South clings to hope that North Korea is scrapping its nukes

Turning the tide

Australia’s aboriginals try a novel approach to fighting crime

Banyan

Donald Trump still has no proper Asia policy

Liberal apostasy

Pakistan’s new government betrays the Ahmadi minority

Fishy business

Economies of scale: why Asia is obsessed with arowanas

The blame game

Ten Indian activists are arrested over a far-fetched conspiracy

China

A slippery slope

A political party in Hong Kong may soon make history by being banned

Class struggle

Anger grows in China over school crowding

The original tea party

The Economist’s new China column: Chaguan

Middle East & Africa

End of the road

Zambia slumps towards another debt crisis

War and cheese

The world’s least blessed cheesemakers are in Congo

Messipotamia

Rivalry between America and Iran threatens to wrench Iraq apart again

Middle East peace-making

America turns its back on the Palestinian leadership

Heat check

Yemen tries gun control

Europe

Still standing

The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats fail to break through

Can you prove it?

How Europe determines whether asylum-seekers are gay

Orban sceptics

The European Parliament condemns Hungary

At the crease in Greece

How cricket thrives in Corfu

Brother enemy

The realities of life in Russia’s far east

Charlemagne

The storm-clouds are building above Europe

Britain

The Brexit negotiations

The unlikely survival of May’s Chequers plan for Brexit

The clown prince

Boris Johnson’s bid for the Tory leadership

The worker takes it all

Labour launches a worker-ownership plan

Boundary ch-ch-ch-changes

Britain’s electoral system favours not Labour but the Conservatives

University in need of repair

Rebuilding British higher education’s most unusual institution

Sex, drugs and non-enforcement

Councils in England and Wales hatch their own solutions to prostitution

Colour me happy

British hospitals are having a dementia-friendly makeover

Bagehot

A hunger for new thought

International

Global problems, local solutions?

California leads subnational efforts to curb climate change

Business

Command and control

China’s tech founders mostly keep an iron grip over their firms

Bartleby

AI may not be bad news for workers

Final episode

CBS faces up to its #MeToo moment

Safe at any Swede

Volvo abandons its plans for an IPO

Smoked out

The FDA moves to harsh the mellow of e-cigarettes

Fixer-uppers

Tech firms disrupt the property market

Internet regulation in Europe

A controversial new copyright law moves a step closer to approval

Schumpeter

America can’t control the global flow of ideas

Finance & economics

Feeling the heat

America is pushing the labour market to its limits

Offside

What the sliding lira and economy mean for Turkey’s banks

The half-life of a currency

Hyperinflation is hard to grasp, harder still to tolerate

The highway, my way

Colombia’s development bank has brought in private-sector discipline

Opposites attract

Money managers and charities are offering joint investment products

Buttonwood

Markets are suffering from a nasty bout of millenarianism

Ant and Tencent

As regulators circle, China’s fintech giants put the emphasis on tech

Free exchange

Tariffs may well bring some high-tech manufacturing back to America

Science & technology

Recycling

Road makers turn to recycled plastic for tougher surfaces

Marine litter

A teenager’s plan to trawl for plastic in the Pacific becomes reality

Scientific publishing

European countries demand that publicly funded research be free

Wildlife conservation

Churches help to preserve bird biodiversity

Books & arts

The Trump chronicles

Bob Woodward takes on Donald Trump

The other side of paradise

Gary Shteyngart’s novel of high finance and Greyhound buses

Wind and smoke

The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist

Achilles and the heels

Pat Barker beautifully fills in the gaps in the “Iliad”

Another country

“Moneyland” is an urgent exposé of the world of mega-wealth

Economic & financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Education spending

Markets

Obituary

The drift of humankind