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# April 24, 2017 | Vol. 189 No. 15 April 24, 2017 |  

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Vol. 189 No. 15

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April 24th, 2017 | Vol. 189, No. 15 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific

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April 24, 2017

Location

Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

Related categories

[World](/vault/subject/world/)

[Military](/vault/subject/military/)

[Terrorism](/vault/subject/terrorism/)

[Middle East](/vault/subject/middle-east/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Hacking Myself Is the Most Surprisingly Humiliating Decision I've Ever Made

[Business](/section/business/)

### Universal Basic Income: A Utopian Idea Whose Time May Finally Have Arrived

A 500-year-old idea may hold the key to solving some of the world's most vexing economic problems

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss on the Urgency of _The Handmaid’s Tale_

The author and star of the new Hulu adaptation also discuss feminism, repression and social media

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Guerrilla_ Illuminates Turbulent Black Power Movement in 1970s Britain

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: James Gray's Resplendent _Lost City of Z_ Speaks to the Explorer in All of Us

Pictures with the grand sweep and dreamy energy of 'The Lost City of Z' don’t come along every year—they barely come along at all.

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Sheryl Sandberg's New Mission: To Help People Through Grief and Adversity

After facing her own sudden loss, the tech titan wants to change how we talk about pain

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Gen. Colin Powell On His New Effort to Help Kids Succeed

'We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment and civic duty.'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Patton Oswalt: I Love You, Don Rickles

'Don Rickles was above and beyond the incorrectness of yesterday as well as today’s hand-wringing about it'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Abortion Provider Dr. Willie Parker Talks About His Deep Christian Faith

And how it informs him as an abortion provider

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Should Overbooking Flights Be Illegal?

After selling more tickets than it had seats, the airline had a man dragged off a flight

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Ivy League Graduates and Other Monsters

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### David Grann’s _Killers of the Flower Moon_ Is Unsurprisingly Extraordinary

A cinematic book about the murders of the Osage tribe and the formation of the FBI

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### _The Givers_ Review: The Pitfalls of Giving It All Away

Philanthropy today grants the wealthy political power over the poor

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside the Grassroots Movement to Groom a New Generation of Democratic Candidates

Inside the grassroots movement to groom a new generation of Democratic candidates

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### A First Major Tournament (Finally) for Sergio García

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### Executive Clawbacks

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Beginning of the End in Mosul

In Mosul, the Islamic State is about to lose the crown jewel of its self-styled caliphate

[World](/section/world/)

### The Trump-Putin Reset Is Dead-but Don't Rule Out an Amicable Settlement

[World](/section/world/)

### The Wild Cards of the French Election

[World](/section/world/)

### Viktor Orban Is Turning Hungary Into Europe's Black Sheep

[World](/section/world/)

### Window-Shopping Milan

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan (April 4--9) is, in name at least, an annual furniture fair. But it's also a showcase for materials and ideas that designers want to make mainstream. These six pieces may augur tony trends to come.

[World](/section/world/)

### Tesla's Electric Shock

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (13 Apr 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (13 Apr 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (13 Apr 2017)


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