Oh **UK! Whatever next?

The techlash continues

Tech giants face new threats from the government and regulators

The millionaire track

American prosecutors uncover a huge university-admissions scam

A tale of two borders

Why more undocumented migrants are reaching America

Islands in the sky

Proposals to tax pieds-à-terre in New York are gaining ground

No happy ending

Mar-a-Lago, massage parlours and selling access to the president

Okun’s razor

The benefits of America’s hot economy have been unevenly spread

Lexington

The Irish conquest of America

A digital bully pulpit

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, is a master of social media

Lights out, but not curtains

A blackout deepens Venezuela’s woes

JEPardy

Colombia’s President Iván Duque undermines a peace deal

Bello

Mexico’s reluctantly liberal president

All for show

Thailand’s generals plan to remain in charge, whatever voters say

Banyan

Air strikes on Pakistan may win Narendra Modi India’s election

Demob unhappy

Afghans worry about the return of Shia fighters from Syria’s civil war

The unkindest cut

Japan says transgender people must be sterilised

Back to basics

The president of the Philippines wants to rename his country

Outer-island views

In remote parts of Indonesia, voters feel let down

Spin doctors

In China, scandal engulfs a big seller of traditional medicine

Keeping it dirty

China’s north-east is the home of bawdy song-and-dance

Chaguan

China says it wants more “independent” think-tanks

From frog to toady

Kenya’s big-tent government has averted violence, but may stunt growth

A dose of bull

Tanzania’s leader, the “Bulldozer”, runs off course

Ink by the barrel in Addis Ababa

Press freedom in Ethiopia has blossomed. Will it last?

Failing grade

Syria’s broken schools will make it difficult to fix the country

Une demi-victoire

Algeria’s 82-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, bows out

No laughing matter

A comedian could be Ukraine’s next president

Weapons of choice

Turkey is soon due to take delivery of its Russian missiles

Annegret’s progress

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting makes a rightward tilt

Speed king

A Croatian inventor says he is building the world’s fastest car

Pragmatic and prickly

Norway and Switzerland: two approaches to life outside the EU

Charlemagne

Meet Marion Maréchal, the next voice of French nationalism

Three strikes

Theresa May is set to beg the EU for more time. What will she do with it?

Extend, but don’t pretend

The EU is willing to extend Article 50—as long as Britain has a plan

Fiscal frippery

The spring statement combined surreal economics with blunt politics

Northern Ireland

A prosecution over Bloody Sunday is announced

From cosy to nosy

The government announces plans for a mightier audit regulator

Last women standing

Another women-only Cambridge college goes mixed

Sexual selection

Sex clinics show how competition can improve England’s NHS

Bagehot

The race to replace Theresa May

Talk is cheap

What disasters reveal about mental-health care

Foreign internship

NATO at 70

How NATO is shaping up at 70

Keeping Russia in check

Decades after the end of the cold war, Russia is showing new aggression

Spending

NATO members’ promise of spending 2% of their GDP on defence is proving hard to keep

European defence

What would happen if America left Europe to fend for itself?

Social media

Preparing for conflicts by cyber-means

Future-gazing

What NATO is doing to keep abreast of new challenges

The next three decades

What NATO needs to do to live to its 100th birthday

Sources and acknowledgments

A crisis of confidence

Two tragic air disasters may not down Boeing

The computer in the cockpit

Humans struggle to cope when automation fails

Bartleby

How the internet led to greater wage inequality

Oil rush

Tech firms ramp up efforts to woo the energy industry

Video games

Fortnite’s developer is entering the retail business

New Wave

VW’s newish boss is going full-steam ahead with electric cars

Schumpeter

The end of the affair

Package deal

China’s current-account surplus has vanished

Buttonwood

How to be a rock-star bond investor

Self-defence

Euro-zone fiscal policy is easing for the first time in a decade

In the pillory

Wells Fargo takes a pasting, from Congress and a regulator

Lacklustre

Indians may be falling out of love with gold

Turkey in recession

The struggle to restore Turkey’s stricken economy

Free exchange

Is modern monetary theory nutty or essential?

Sunny with overcast features

Countries look at ways to tinker with Earth’s thermostat

Monkey puzzle

The evolution of monkeys remains a mystery

Antidepressants

A new drug based on ketamine could help treat depression

Dinner diplomacy

Sharing a plate of food leads to more successful negotiations

This soul of a woman

Rediscovering Artemisia Gentileschi, four centuries on

Pointillist power

America’s hidden history of imperialism

Desert storms

A mystery in the Mojave

The ballad of King D

Music therapy on the streets of Goma

Johnson

Languages are too big for academies to tame

Nationalism’s deep roots

New research finds parallels between German votes in 1933 and now

One tablet, taken daily

Obituary: Mags Portman died on February 6th