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Where next for Catalonia?
Mueller’s misunderstood mission
Trafficking brides to China
Luther at 500: an essay
NOVEMBER
4TH
–
10TH 2017
Social media’s threat
to democracy
Contents
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The world this week
Leaders
The politics of outrage
The threat of social media
Mueller’s investigation
Filtering out the noise
Catalonia
After a month of madness
India’s government
Modi blues
American health care
Prescription debate
36 Hasidic Jews
The parting of Monroe
37 Texas politics
Thus spake Joe
38 Lexington
Obama/Trump voters
The Americas
39 Venezuela’s debt crisis
Staying afloat, somehow
40 Innovation in Canada
Founding Maple Valley
42 Bello
Lessons from a
Mexican leftist
Essay
43 Luther’s reformation
The stand
Middle East and Africa
Illiberal liberalism
A new kind of Arab despot
Jews in Morocco
Shalom alaykum
Land grabs in Syria
Bulldozing over the
revolution
Politics in Kenya
Kenyatta’s hollow victory
Zimbabwe’s crisis
Surviving under Mugabe
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On the cover
Facebook, Google and Twitter
were supposed to improve
politics. Something has
gone very wrong: leader,
page 11. Once considered a
boon to democracy, social
media have started to look
like its nemesis, page 19
Letters
16 On inflation, land reform,
Britain, Johannes
Vermeer, women, beer
Briefing
19 Politics and social media
How the world was trolled
Asia
Trump’s Asian tour
Fore!
America and
South-East Asia
Meet and retreat
Australian citizenship
Not in parliament
Indian politics
Tax brake
The Kazakh language
Apostrophes on the march
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Spain
Catalans have accepted
direct rule from Madrid for
now. Time for Spain to hold
out the prospect of a new deal:
leader, page 12. Government
intervention and a snap
election have defused, but not
settled, a crisis that goes to
the essence of Spanish
democracy, page 53. When
disputes over redistribution
fuel separatism, thorny issues
arise: Free exchange, page 78.
Javier Cercas probes Spain’s
convoluted history, page 85
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Volume 425 Number 9065
Published since September 1843
to take part in "a severe contest between
intelligence, which presses forward, and
an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing
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China
29 Trafficking women
Abductions from abroad
31 Banyan
The rise of Wang Huning
United States
Tax reform
Deducting deductions
Terrorism in New York
A faint echo
Investigating Russia
Manafort overboard
Children’s health
Chipped away
Europe
Catalonia
The man who wasn’t there
Russia
The ride of the mercenaries
France’s croissant crisis
Sacré beurre
Charlemagne
The British ghost
Robert Mueller
To assess the
special prosecutor’s
investigation, recall his his job
description: leader, page 12.
The former Trump campaign
chief is indicted. Cue calls to
jail Hillary Clinton, page 34
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Britain
58 The NHS
Policy transplant
59 Political donations
Following the money
60 Bagehot
The Palace of Pestminster
Luther at 500
Protestantism
helped shape the modern
liberal West. What does its
revival mean for the developing
world? Page 43
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