Jun 25th 2016

March of the machines: A special report on artificial intelligence

The world this week

Leaders

Artificial intelligence

March of the machines

What history tells us about the future of artificial intelligence—and how society should respond

Britain and the EU

A tragic split

How to minimise the damage of Britain’s senseless, self-inflicted blow

Guns in America

Control, alt, delete

The impasse on gun control will not last for ever

Executive pay

Cheques need balances

The right ways to fix a flawed system

America and Iran

Sanctions busting

Iran says that the West is not honouring its side of the nuclear deal. Poppycock

The Niger Delta Avengers

Danegeld in the Delta

Nigeria’s turbulent oilfields cannot be pacified by bribing rebels

Letters

On free speech, central banks, Israel, teaching, potholes, cheese

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Executive pay

Neither rigged nor fair

Bosses’ pay in the rich world is not a fix. But it is flawed

United States

Minimum wages

Maximin

The Trump campaign

Poor Donald

After Orlando

Of docs and Glocks

Oakland’s police

Too many chiefs

The Fourth Amendment

Amended

Catholic hospitals

Gloria in expansion

Suing the Church

Bully pulpit

Lexington

Cory Booker

The Americas

North American summitry

Three amigos and two spectres

Bello

Peace, at last, in Colombia

Brazil’s Olympics

Calamity Janeiro

Canada

Last rights

Asia

Australia’s election

Shortening the odds

Law enforcement in Indonesia

Time for Tito

Pakistani cinema

Lights, camera, action men

Endangered species

No rosewood of such virtue

Addiction in India

Pushing poppies in Punjab

Japanese-American relations

Rina’s legacy

China

Propaganda

Who draws the party line?

Grassroots democracy

Unwanted model

Banyan

In Beijing’s bad books

Middle East & Africa

The nuclear deal with Iran

Teething pains or trouble ahead?

Fighting in Fallujah

Down, but not yet out

Bahrain’s crackdown

Brutal king, cowardly allies

The dogs of Gaza

If you want a friend in this town...

Kenya

Heating up

Nigeria and its militants

Avengers unite!

Europe

Spain reruns its election

Out, caste

The EU’s Russia sanctions

Small carrot, medium stick

Russia’s Olympic ban

Doping and punishment

Turkey’s embattled liberals

Radiohead and Ramadan

Charlemagne

Commented out

Britain

Working poverty

When a job is not enough

Britain and the European Union

After the vote, chaos

Bagehot

The improbable revolutionaries

Born out of his time

Andy Murray and tennis grand slams

Summer exams

Books versus football

Bagehot

Whitehall, Inc.

International

Higher education

Flying high

Special report

Artificial intelligence

The return of the machinery question

Technology

From not working to neural networking

The impact on jobs

Automation and anxiety

Education and policy

Re-educating Rita

Ethics

Frankenstein’s paperclips

Conclusion

Answering the machinery question

Business

Health care

All about the base

Security businesses in Europe

Silver linings

YouTube and copyright

Free and easy listening

3D printing

Print my ride

Elon Musk’s empire

Clouds appear

SoftBank

Short and sweet

Telecoms

Oi boy

Schumpeter

Sleepy giant

Finance & economics

India’s economy

Two stumbles forward, one back

Buttonwood

The next leap

Mexico’s special economic zones

How the bottom half lives

IEX, unleashed

Speed bumps in the night

Regulating banks

Capital hill

The DAO

Theft is property

German banks

Turn of the screw

Free exchange

A running start

Science & technology

Passenger drones

Those incredible flying machines

Surveillance

Halting the hate

Climate research

Monsooner or later

Social media and sport

What the deuce, Watson?

Zoology

Flight compass

Books & arts

Wagner’s “Ring” cycle

Getting into Valhalla

Transgender memoir

Daddy dearest

A memoir of Australia

Ancestral voices

Cricket in Pakistan

Balls of fury

Reading poetry

War of words

Sculpture parks in Britain

Training the eye

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Foreign direct investment

Markets

Obituary

Star turn