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OnthecoverDonald Trump was elected toshake Washington out ofitsparalysis. Instead he isadding to America' s problems:leader, page 9. Those whohope that American politicswill eventually return tonormal may face a long wait.See our spedal report afterpage 42. Fresh from visitingthe Oval Office, an AmericanCEOsends an e-mail to histop lieutenants: Schumpeter,page 58. The upper middleclass are the mainbenefidaries-and theprindpal cause-of inequalityin America, page 72
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7 The world this week
Leaders9 American politics
Adivided country10 Free speech
Hands off AlJazeera10 China
What Hong Kong can teachXiJinping
12 European banksSenior moment
13 Additive manufacturingPrinting everywhere
Letters14 On Grenfell Tower, polls,
China, predictions,Taiwan, France
Briefing17 Additive manufacturing
The factories of the future19 Production costs
Making things anew
Europe21 Refugees in Turkey
The new neighbours22 Georgia's regime
Can the reforms survive?23 Balkan autocrats
Wrong and stable24 Gay marriage in Germany
Merkel switches sides24 The last TGV
Renaming France'ssupertrain
25 CharlemagneThe chocolate curtain
Britain26 Labour's leader
Life and soul ofthe party27 Diego Garda
Tropicalstorm28 Bagehot
Britain's decline and fall
Middle East and Africa29 The rule of law in Africa
Bleak house30 African agriculture
Lost in the maize30 Ice cream in Yemen
Pralines behind the battlelines
31 Al JazeeraChanging the channel
32 AlgeriaLand ofthe living dead
United States33 Homidde in Baltimore
Exceptionally murderous35 The Supreme Court
Rightward, ho!36 Farming in the Midwest
The last thing they need37 Medicaid
Patching up the poor37 Pet transport
Adog's life38 Lexington
Divided, even at birth
The Americas39 Canada's indigenous
peoplesUnfinished business
40 Brazil' s political scandalTemer tantrum
40 Offshore oilThe gusher in Guyana
42 BelloAdi6s to Venezuelandemocracy
Spedal report:Trump's AmericaThe power of groupthinkAfter page 42
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MurderinBaltimore Mostparts of America have neverbeen safer. Maryland's mostpopulous cityis notamongthem, page 33
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AlJazeera The Arab worldhas one big freewheelingbroadcaster, The Saudi regimewants to silenceit: leader,page 10. 15 AlJazeera anindependent voice or apropaganda tool? Page 31
Manufacturing 3D printerswill shape the factory ofthefuture: leader, page 13. Howthey have become a morepotent option forindustrialproduction, page 17. Printingm 3Dtransforms the economicsofmanufacturing, page19
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6 Contents The Economist July ist 2017
© 2017 The Economist Newspaper Limited. AlIrights reserved. Neitherthis publication noranypartofit may be reproduced, stored in a retrtevat system.ortransmitted in anyformor byanymeans.electronic.mechanicat.photocopying, recordingorother-wise, withoutthe prior permissicn ofThe EconomistNewspaper Limited. Published everyweek, exceptfor a year-end doubleissue, byThe Economist Newspaper Limited. The Economistisa reqisteredtrademark ofThe Economist Newspaper Limited. Printed byVogel Druck und Medienservice GmbH, teibnizstrafte 5, 97204 Hochberq.Deutschland.France,NumeroCommissionParitaire:68832 GB. Encartd'abonnementde deuxpagessituéentre Iesfolios10 et 130. Rapp.Italia: IMDsrtVia Guido da Velate 1120162Milano Aut. Trib. MI 272 del 13/04/88 Poste Italiane SpA - Sped Abb Post Dl353/2003 (conv. L 27/2/2004 n.46) art i comma 1 DCa Milano, Dir. Resp. Domenico Iassinari
Google's woesThe EuropeanCommission levies a huge fineon Google for abusing itsdominancein online search,page 53. Apple is struggling tofind another blockbusterproduct but the iPhone stillhas battery life, page 54
European banks Europe'sframework for dealing withtroubled banks is working, buthas one big drawback: leader,page 12. Ataxpayer-fundedliquidation oftwo Italianlenders is ugly but pragmatic,page 61
Kazakhstan The world'sbiggest landlocked countryisopen for business but onlyhalf-readyfor it, page 43
Asia43 Kazakhstan
Steppe change44 Sex toys in Pakistan
From the land ofthe pure45 Elections in Papua New
GuineaWantok and no action
46 Democracy in JapanBills before parliament
47 BanyanMalaysia's sorry politics
China48 Finandal risk
Regulators get tougher49 Human rights
LiuXiaobo's last struggle49 Video streaming
Cracking down on fun
International50 Foreign aid
Fading faith in good works
Business53 Europe v Google
Not so Froogle54 Apple and the iPhone
The new old thing55 Nestlé
Tasty morsel56 Essar Group
Indian diet57 Takata's bankruptcy
The dangers ofinflation57 Shipbuilding in China
Cruising for a bruising58 Schumpeter
Time for Plan C
Finance and economies61 European banks
Buckets of ducats62 Buttonwood
Easy money63 Ameriean banks
Capital plans63 Kenya's sovereign debt
Bonds go mobile
64 Islamie bondsAppealing to the umpire
64 Sovereign-bond ratingsDouble standards?
66 Pakistan and the IMFNever say never
67 Trade-adjustmentAid for trade
68 Free exchangeAsia's crisis, 20 years on
Sdence and technology69 Fake news
Creation stories70 Pestiddes
Buzz kill71 Sdentific piracy
Warning shots71 Malware
Computer says no
Books and arts72 Ameriea's upper middle
classThe cause ofinequality
73 Neel Mukherjee's fictionStates offreedom
73 Changing the currencyDial Mfor money
74 How sdence got womenwrongThe way we are
74 The Brooklyn BridgeAcross the divide
76 Hanoverian princessesRoyal, rational, refined
78 Economie and finandalindicatorsStatistics on 42 economies,plus a closer look atresource governance
Obituary80 Jerry Nelson
The mirror and the stars
Faking newsltis becomingeasier to create convincingaudio and video ofthings thathave never happened, page 69
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