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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon 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 On China, Donald Trump, investing, Bermuda, rich men: Letters to the editor The financial crisis: Unresolved Brett Kavanaugh: Hard of hearing The Trump administration: #Treason? Tariffs: Who pays? Presidential disapproval: White flight The Catholic church: A widening schism Aid to foreigners: Double vision Lexington: The trials of Jeff Sessions North American trade: Limiting the damage from the Donald “Supply management”: My whey or the highway Bello: Who lost Brazil? Japan and the United States: Watching him nervously The media in Myanmar: The lady who turned Gay rights in India: Ending the aberration Banyan: Can’t pay Charity: Lucky for some Pigs in China: Beware of porky pies The fate of Idlib: Last rebels standing Israel: Slow train to Jerusalem Israel and the Palestinians: Nothing to talk about Politics in Nigeria: Mud, glorious mud-slinging South Africa’s economy: More bad news Corruption in Kinshasa: Congestion charging, Congo style Russia and China: Game on France: Jupiter descending Germany: After the stabbing Elections in Sweden: The poll that kicks the hornets’ nest Charlemagne: Beyond open and closed The labour market: All work and no pay The Skripal poisoning: Caught on camera Economic policy: The new centrism The Conservatives: Blue kippers and red herrings Funding Circle: A peerless IPO Effective altruism comes to Blackpool: Daytrippers and utilitarians Wireless makes a comeback: Channel hopping Alex Salmond and the SNP: Big fish, fried Bagehot: An equilibrium of incompetence Journalist wanted Traffic jams: The slow and the furious Traffic and geography: Let’s try that again Technology companies and censorship: The deciders Bartleby: When teamwork works Nike invites controversy: Inviting controversy The Universal Postal Union: Stamping on the competition Video games in China: One in the eye Schumpeter: iSupply Emerging markets: Failing conventionally Sir James Mirrlees: What really mattered Money-laundering: Stubborn stains Wind and solar v nuclear: Cleaner than thou Buttonwood: One for the road Free exchange: A savings account Rousseau, Marx and Nietzsche: The prophets of illiberal progress Curbing illegal fishing: Netting the crooks Health care: Bubbling with ideas Manufacturing in space: Free-falling profits Animal behaviour: To the point Polish contemporary art: A different kind of culture war Brazil’s National Museum: Up in smoke A building and its inhabitants: Czech fates Irish fiction: Dare not speak its name Johnson: Amo, amas... oh, forget it Chicha Mariani: Hope against hope Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index The Economist poll of forecasters, September averages Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)