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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 11, 2016 10:00 AM UTC  Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 11, 2016 10:00 AM UTC [Inside Donald Trump’s Meltdown](http://time.com/4447985/inside-donald-trump-meltdown/?iid=toc%5F081116) [Amid Donald Trump’s Stumbles, an America-First Rebellion That Is Just Beginning](http://time.com/4447989/donald-trump-economy/?iid=toc%5F081116) [Legends Live on In an Editor’s Book](http://time.com/4447988/legends-live-on-in-an-editors-book/?iid=toc%5F081116) [To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad](http://time.com/4447982/colson-whitehead-the-underground-railroad-review/?iid=toc%5F081116) [6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of_The Underground Railroad_](http://time.com/4447972/colson-whitehead-the-underground-railroad/?iid=toc%5F081116) The author of _The Underground Railroad_, Oprah’s new book-club pick, talks about making fiction from history’s great atrocity [Why More Americans Are Choosing Cremation](http://time.com/4447973/why-more-americans-are-choosing-cremation/?iid=toc%5F081116) [Dear Mr. Putin: Here’s Why You Should Help Save My Beloved BlackBerry](http://time.com/4447974/dear-mr-putin-heres-why-you-should-help-save-my-beloved-blackberry/?iid=toc%5F081116) [How Airports Are Fixing Security Chaos](http://time.com/4447976/how-airports-are-fixing-security-chaos/?iid=toc%5F081116) [Requiem for Venezuela](http://time.com/4447977/requiem-for-venezuela/?iid=toc%5F081116) How the nation with more oil than anywhere else in the world fell apart [What You Said About …](http://time.com/4447978/what-you-said-about/?iid=toc%5F081116) [The Origami Canoe](http://time.com/4447979/the-origami-canoe/?iid=toc%5F081116) [Quick Talk with Chris Pine](http://time.com/4447981/chris-pine/?iid=toc%5F081116) Fresh off his turn as Captain Kirk in Star Trek Beyond, Pine, 35, stars in Hell or High Water, a neo-western heist drama in which two brothers steal from a chain of Texas banks to save their family ranch. 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Thank God](http://time.com/4444324/no-mans-sky-review/?iid=toc%5F081116) No Man’s Sky is not the game most people expected it to be. 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