Apr 1st 2017

The Trump presidency so far

The world this week

Leaders

Brexit begins

Britain’s brutal encounter with reality

Time to be honest about the trade-offs ahead

The White House

The Trump presidency is in a hole

And that is bad for America—and the world

Sunlight over soot

India becomes more active in the fight against global warming

The world’s third-largest carbon emitter is curbing its dependence on coal

Burmese daze

Aung San Suu Kyi is letting her own revolution down

Myanmar’s revered leader needs to learn how to delegate

Friction lovers

The case for an efficiency tax

It is time to recognise the value of a bit of hassle

Letters

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Constrained?

America’s system of checks and balances seems to be working

But there is still plenty to worry about

The silk-silver axis

Averting a Chinese-American trade war

The world’s most important bilateral economic relationship is flourishing—and in deep trouble

United States

Brown suits galore

Reforming taxes will not be easier than abolishing Obamacare

Farming in the Midwest

How bad is this farm slump?

Coal and carbon

The president’s executive orders won’t do much for coalminers

Bicker warning

Colleges with rich students see more protests against speakers

A guide to the investigations

Trump and Russia, the never-ending story

Lexington

Donald Trump redrew the map to win office. He’s now lost

The Americas

Sun, sand and socialism

What the tourist industry reveals about Cuba

Hard rules for rotten wars

When is it OK to shoot a child soldier?

Bello

Upgrading Brazil’s political class

Asia

Governing in prose

Aung San Suu Kyi’s first year running Myanmar has been a letdown

Dug in

Bangladesh’s counter-terrorism campaign has a long way to go

A haven for the crass

An outspoken Singaporean blogger wins asylum in America

A break for the despairing

India decriminalises attempted suicide

Rising Moon

The loser in South Korea’s last presidential race has another go

China

Tortoise v hare

Is China challenging the United States for global leadership?

Banyan

Can Hong Kong’s next leader satisfy her masters and the public?

Middle East & Africa

Return of the third horseman

Famine menaces 20m people in Africa and Yemen

State of mines

Islamic State is losing land but leaving mines behind

Prime minister v pundits

Bibi Netanyahu takes on the media

Pants on fire in Cairo

Why Egypt’s ruler loves Donald Trump

Europe

Sudden movement

Aleksei Navalny brings Russia’s opposition back to life

Growing out of it

Portugal cuts its fiscal deficit while raising pensions and wages

Beyond the hexagon

France’s presidential race is a clash of worldviews

Bewildered in Bratislava

Who kidnapped the son of Slovakia’s president?

Charlemagne

As the world sours on trade, the EU sweetens on it

Britain

A race against time

The two-year countdown to Brexit has begun

And then there were none

As it celebrates Brexit, UKIP loses its man in the Commons

Justice in an age of austerity

Want to challenge your unfair dismissal? That’ll be £1,200

Of sandwiches and Percy Pigs

British Airways is turning into a no-frills airline

In the eye of the storm

An attack in London puts Birmingham’s Muslims in the spotlight

Zeal of the convert

Converts to Islam are likelier to radicalise than native Muslims

Bagehot

How Brexit damaged Britain’s democracy

International

Fewer, but still with us

The world has made great progress in eradicating extreme poverty

Business

Lux in flux

Luxury-goods companies are belatedly trying to go digital

Wound up

Swiss watchmakers try to keep pace

Drug of choice

The nominee to run America’s drug regulator is a sound choice

Cramville

Ameerpet, India’s unofficial IT training hub

Advalanche

YouTube highlights problems with digital advertising

Fallout

Westinghouse files for bankruptcy

Schumpeter

Masayoshi Son goes on a $100bn shopping spree

Finance & economics

Free exchange

Will robots displace humans as motorised vehicles ousted horses?

Canary in the coal mine

Lacklustre power demand in Asia throws a cloud over coal

Buttonwood

Stockmarkets give up some of their Trump bump

Breaking up is hard to do

Banks’ equity-research operations are in decline

Cleaning up

The life and times of an Italian non-performing loan

A small price to pay

Indonesia’s tax amnesty passes its deadline

A shore thing

An improbable global shortage: sand

Science & technology

The case for neural lace

Elon Musk enters the world of brain-computer interfaces

Moving moments

Analysing brain signals to let a patient control his arm

Laying a glove on it

A simple device designed to detect chemical weapons

Global air pollution

Airborne particles cause more than 3m early deaths a year

Bird brains and traffic accidents

Small-brained birds get killed by cars

Taking stock

Managing supplies of vaccines is a huge problem

Books & arts

Tradition, resurrected

A resurgence of religious faith is changing China

Nature v nurture

The controversial biology of sexual selection

Heady stuff

Balli Kaur Jaswal has written a new type of erotic novel

An overdue biography

Why the reputation of David Jones is ripe for reappraisal

An elegant primer

Classical music, made easy

Johnson

English has a traditional solution to gender-neutral pronouns

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

World GDP

Markets

Obituary

Songs of the sea