--- --- Back to the vault # August 31, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 8August 31, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 8  Issue name August 31st, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 8 | U.S. Issue date August 31, 2015 Location U.S. Related categories [Government](/vault/subject/government/) [U.S. Presidents](/vault/subject/u-s-presidents/) [Politics](/vault/subject/politics/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.WorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### New Gear Helps You Monitor Your Home Even when you’re not there ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Hurricane Katrina and the Healing Power of Jazz An excerpt from The Wind in the Reeds [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: It’s Overcast Season at Beach House The group is out with a new album, Depression [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### ‘Escape Rooms’ Are Video Games Come to Life The new pastime is like a Rubik’s cube that locks the door behind you [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### 10 Questions With Beverly Johnson The veteran supermodel reflects on her career and on coming forward about Bill Cosby ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### How to Age When Your Celebrity Peers Don't In Hollywood, looking young forever is the ultimate prize. In real life, not so much [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### It Takes Much More Than Money to Fix Broken Schools Educators need much more support—socially, politically and financially ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Why Donald Trump Is Winning Why Trump's latest hit show is driving the political elite crazy [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Hillary Clinton’s Stalled Bandwagon Exposes a Deeper Problem for Democrats The email controversy continues ### Science [Science](/section/science/) ### A Strange New Way to Solve Crimes The bacteria growing in and on the human body is so unique—and so revealing—that scientists believe germs will soon help catch bad guys [Science](/section/science/) ### Modern Science Has a Publish-or-Perish Problem Flaws are popping up in the peer review process ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Inside Preparations for the Pope’s Visit The man who saved an archdiocese now prepares for the Pope's visit ### World [World](/section/world/) ### The China Decade It’s been a rough summer for Beijing. But China is still poised to dominate—at least in the short term [World](/section/world/) ### Pop Chart (20 Aug 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### Planetary Clones [World](/section/world/) ### How Cities Save Water [World](/section/world/) ### How China's Economic Turmoil Affects Your Investments You aren't a currency trader. You don't play in Shanghai's boom-and-bust stock market. (It was only beginning to open to foreign investors when the crash hit.) But if you have some money in a 401(k) or an IRA, you have a stake in the news coming out of China, even if you hardly think of yourself as a global investor. [World](/section/world/) ### The Jewels of Chinese 'Duplitecture' China revealed an "oil bubble" statue in the northwest town of Karamay on Aug. 11 that is almost identical to Chicago's reflective, beanlike sculpture Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor. The Windy City's 2006 artwork is in good company; China has been creating knockoff monuments for years [World](/section/world/) ### Why Brazil Is Turning Against Its President [World](/section/world/) ### The Conservative Heart [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (20 Aug 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### Julian Bond Civil rights leader [World](/section/world/) ### Sky Ladder [World](/section/world/) ### Verbatim (20 Aug 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About ... (20 Aug 2015) ### Others ### ### ### ### ### ### ### August 31st, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 8 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"August 31st, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 8 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/4004372/august-31st-2015-vol-186-no-8-u-s/"}]}]} ```