The Economist (march 31st, 2018)

How Brexit threatens Northern Ireland Trump and trade: the danger of the deal Iraq, on the right track at last If bees could talk MARCH 31ST– APRIL 6TH 2018 AI¯spy Artificial intelligence in the workplace A SPECIAL REPORT The Economist March 31st 2018 5 Contents 9 The world this week Leaders 13 Workplace of the future AI-spy 14 Nuclear proliferation Making Satan great again 14 America and world trade The danger of the deal 16 Ireland and Brexit Identity theft 18 The state of Iraq Better days in Baghdad On the cover As it pushes beyond the tech industry, artificial intelligence could make workplaces fairer—or more oppressive: leader, page 13. AI has big consequences for companies, consumers and workers. See our special report after page 46 The Economist online Daily analysis and opinion to supplement the print edition, plus audio and video, and a daily chart Economist.com E-mail: newsletters and mobile edition Economist.com/email Print edition: available online by 7pm London time each Thursday Economist.com/printedition Audio edition: available online to download each Friday Economist.com/audioedition Volume 426 Number 9085 Published since September 1843 to take part in "a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." Editorial offices in London and also: Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Chicago, Madrid, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Washington DC Letters 20 On China, Colombia, Stephen Hawking, sensible people Briefing 22 Northern Ireland Past and future collide United States 25 Team Trump March madness 26 Obamacare Escape routes 27 Electoral districts Drawing the line 27 Special elections Attempts to avoid them 30 Suicide Self-destructing 31 Spanish in America The long adiós 32 Lexington The warrior look The Americas 34 Mexico Anaya under fire 35 Bello Peru’s president 36 Uruguay’s economy The magic of Montevideo Asia 37 China and North Korea Conviviality, not clarity 38 Pakistan’s judiciary Justice on the loose 40 Nepal and India A prickly pair 40 Tourism in the Philippines A palm-fringed cesspool 42 India’s armed forces Paper elephant China 43 Pursuing fugitives abroad Forbidding kingdom 44 Repatriating Uighurs Nowhere to hide 46 Banyan Xi Jinping, Chairman of Everything Northern Ireland The United Kingdom underestimates the damage it is doing to its most fragile region: leader, page 16. Twenty years after a landmark peace agreement, questions carefully set aside for future generations have been forced back onto the agenda, page 22 Special report: AI in business GrAIt expectations After page 46 Middle East and Africa 47 Iraq after Islamic State Under construction 50 African migrants Homeward bound 50 Illegal charcoal A very black market 52 Comic books in Africa Sub-Saharan superheroes Hawkish America As the Iran nuclear deal heads for the rocks, the biggest losers will be Europe and America: leader, page 14. How the agreement that curtails Iran’s nuclear ambitions looks doomed, page 61 Europe 53 The “identitarian” right White, right and pretentious 54 Russian diplomats The defiant pariah 55 Italy’s populists Birds of a feather 55 Media in Turkey It’s an Erdoganeat-Dogan world 56 Moldova Cheers for Moldovan wine 56 Spain and separatism Extraditing Puigdemont 57 Charlemagne Going Dutch Good news from Iraq Fifteen years after America led the invasion of Iraq, the benighted country is at last finding a new sense of unity: leader, page 18. Will the new spirit hold? Page 47 1 Contents continues overleaf 6 Contents The Economist March 31st 2018 58 59 59 60 Chinese abroad The long arm of Chinese lawenforcement has