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August 15-22, 2016 Issue
Cover art by: Karl-Raphael Blanchard
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Features
How the country challenged the junk-food industry and became a global leader in the battle against obesity.
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More austerity and the sell off of treasured public assets will worsen an already crippling recession.
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The disaster in Brazil is an extreme version of what happens when the International Olympic Committee comes to town.
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Is a new gospel of giving on the rise? Eight philanthropic thinkers weigh in.
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Editorials
Small steps, big benefits.
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Trump’s policies are repellent, but the real danger comes from the acceptance of menace and ridicule as substitutes for political debate.
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Throughout her career, she’s won over rivals, critics, even enemies. That’s how a woman has to do it.
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In their eagerness to defeat Trump, liberal pundits are reviving a damaging discourse.
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Columns
The establishment would rather gut the party than allow Jeremy Corbyn to lead it.
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Will the Fox News CEO’s downfall signal a sea change in cable news reporting?
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Books and the Arts
For Scott Malcomson, the Web is slowly being redefined according to the old political maps of nation-states.
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They way to see the author’s satire of small-village life whole is to see the translations multiplied.
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In one sense: The jokes do change when the characters are women, who incite you to laugh through a graveyard of America’s bloody history.
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Trump inhabits interiors in lieu of an interior life and shows them off with hyperbolic self-celebration. Gilt by association!
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In two recent essay collections, Tim Parks explores why we bother with reading and writing books.
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Letters
Suffering in private… An ounce of prevention… Pulsing with love…
