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Every weekly print issue of The Economist from the first issue of 1994 (8 January, “Welcome to Europe, Mr Clinton”) through 14 November 2026 (“Whatever next?”). Issues are dated Saturday. Christmas and holiday double issues skip the following Saturday; 2022 and 2023 also had a summer double issue. Those unpublished weeks are omitted, not missing.

One published cover could not be found as a complete front page: 27 July 1996, marked “Cover not found”. Six typographic headlines could not be read honestly and are marked “Headline not found”: 24 December 1994, 23 December 1995, 21 December 1996, 19 December 1998, 29 October 2005, and 27 July 1996. No headline or image was invented.

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