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Idlib: the next Syrian slaughter
Facebook and YouTube, censors-in-chief
Why the Chinese don’t give to charity
Brazil’s incinerated treasures
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Contents
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The world this week
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On the cover
Ten years on from the
collapse of Lehman Brothers
the system is safer. But the
right lessons have not all
been learned: leader, page 11.
More has changed than
meets the eye. But is it
enough? Page 20. America’s
long-lived recovery breeds
complacency about lingering
macroeconomic risks: Free
exchange, page 66. Why
Italy’s government bonds are
so unstable: Buttonwood,
page 65
Leaders
Ten years after Lehman
Has finance been fixed?
Geopolitics
Trouble in the east
Content liability
Truth and power
The war in Syria
Idlib is falling
Preserving the past
The bonfire of the
antiquities
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Asia
Japan and America
Watching Trump nervously
Human rights in Myanmar
A blow to the press
Gay sex in India
Legal at last
Banyan
Disentangling from China
American politics
One of
Donald Trump’s own officials
portrays a man who is unfit to
be president, page 24. The
attorney-general’s resistance
to presidential bullying is
unexpected and heroic:
Lexington, page 28
China
37 Charitable donations
The party’s restraints
38 African swine fever
Pig trouble
Middle East and Africa
The fate of Idlib
Last rebels standing
Israel
Slow train to Jerusalem
Palestine
Trump’s peace plan
Politics in Nigeria
Racing to the presidency
South Africa’s economy
More bad news
Corruption in Kinshasa
Jam for traffic cops
Europe
Russia and China
The new wargames
France
Jupiter descending
Germany
After the stabbing
Elections in Sweden
The hornets’ nest
Charlemagne
Beyond open and closed
Letters
18 On Donald Trump, China,
investing, Bermuda,
rich men
Briefing
20 The financial crisis
Unresolved
United States
Brett Kavanaugh
Hard of hearing
The president
#Treason?
Tariffs
Who pays?
Opinion polls
White flight
The Catholic church
A widening schism
Aid to foreigners
Double vision
Lexington
The trials of Jeff Sessions
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The war in Syria
The army is
massing to take Idlib, the last
rebel stronghold. Worse,
nobody can stop the bloodbath:
leader, page 14. The battle may
produce the biggest
humanitarian catastrophe of
the war, page 39
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Volume 428 Number 9108
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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The Americas
29 North American trade
Damage from the Donald
30 Canadian dairy prices
My whey or the highway
32 Bello
Who lost Brazil?
Britain
47 The labour market
All work and no pay
48 The Skripal poisoning
Caught on camera
49 Bagehot
An equilibrium of
incompetence
NAFTA
The contours of a new
trade deal are emerging. It is
worse than the old one but
better than none, page 29
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