Jul 23rd 2016

Erdogan’s revenge

The world this week

Leaders

The failed coup in Turkey

Erdogan’s revenge

Turkey’s president is destroying the democracy that Turks risked their lives to defend

Britain’s “industrial strategy”

Open for business?

The takeover of a British microchip-maker belies a cooling climate for foreign investors

The politics of Thailand

The generals who hide behind the throne

Thailand is ill-prepared for the death of its king

Methane leaks

Tunnel vision

Even natural gas needs to clean up its act

Big economic ideas

Breakthroughs and brickbats

What economists can learn from the discipline’s seminal papers

Letters

On Kurdistan, immigration, executive pay, the passive voice, China

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Turmoil in Turkey

After the coup, the counter-coup

The failed putsch was the bloodiest Turkey has seen; the backlash is as worrying

Turkey and the world

Running out of friends

Recep Tayyip Erdogan drifts away from America, NATO and the EU

United States

The Republican convention

Donning the mantle

On the trail

Cleveland special

Roger Ailes

Kingmaker no more

Paul Ryan’s agenda

Better than what?

Policing after Baton Rouge

Ambushed and anguished

Michael Elliott

The Fab One

Immigration economics

Wages of Mariel

Lexington

At his majesty’s pleasure

The Americas

Canada’s internal trade

The great provincial obstacle course

Cuba’s economy

Caribbean contagion

El Salvador

Reconsidering the price of peace

Bello

Lessons from a liberal swashbuckler

Asia

Politics in Thailand

Twilight of the king

Dissent in Laos

Radio silence

Crimes against women

Can the licence to kill be revoked?

South Korea’s DIYers

Bangsta style

China

Hong Kong police

The force is with who?

The South China Sea

My nationalism, and don’t you forget it

Middle East & Africa

Israel and the Arab world

The enemy of my enemies

Syrian refugees in Jordan

From haven to hell

Lebanese cronyism

Hire power

City slickers on the farm

Africa’s real land grab

Smoking

Plains packaging

Nigeria’s currency

If you love it...

Europe

Another attack in France

Madness and terror

Russia’s Olympian drug habit

Tamper proof

Italy’s upstart party

The Five Star question

Charlemagne

Parliament plot

Britain

The government’s “industrial strategy”

A change of gear

Foreign takeovers

Fear and favour

London buses

Parting the red sea

Universities and Brexit

A first-class mess

Pushy parents

How to make children do homework

Labour and the north

Tyne and Weary

Bagehot

In the map room with Theresa May

International

Stress

What makes us stronger

Workplace stress

Fuss and bother

Business

Methane leaks

A dirty little secret

The industrial internet of things

The great convergence

SoftBank and ARM

Everything under the Son

Niche media

Fight club

Corporate earnings

Of populism and profits

Consumer products

His and hers

Schumpeter

Silicon Valley 1.0

Finance & economics

African banks

Subprime savannah

Buttonwood

Vanishing workers

The Big Mac index

Patty-purchasing parity

Postal Savings Bank of China

A red-letter IPO

The 1MDB affair

Thick and fast

Free exchange

Putsch and pull

Schools brief

Information asymmetry

Secrets and agents

Science & technology

The 21st International AIDS Conference

Rallying the troops

Data storage

Atoms and the voids

Medical technology

All sewn up

Books & arts

Chinese politics

The people's pope

South-East Asian history

Striving for unity

South Africa

Time of death

Australian fiction

The way of the world

American photography

Exposed

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

The Economist commodity-price index

Markets

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

GDP forecasts for 2016

Obituary

Clothed with happiness