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# March 28, 2016 | Vol. 187 No. 11 March 28, 2016 |  

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Vol. 187 No. 11

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March 28th, 2016 | Vol. 187, No. 11 | U.S.

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March 28, 2016

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Fight With the FBI

In an exclusive interview with TIME, Cook discusses your privacy, America’s security, and what’s at stake in the battle over encryption

[Business](/section/business/)

### In the Latest Issue (17 Mar 2016)

[Business](/section/business/)

### The Privacy Debate

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The 30 Most Influential People on the Internet (16 Mar 2016)

Our second annual roundup of the most influential people online

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Nora Ephron’s Son Pays Tribute in _Everything Is Copy_

The documentary will air on HBO

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### NBC’s Medical Soap _Heartbeat_ Lacks _Grey’s Anatomy_ Smarts

Melissa George plays a heart transplant surgeon

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Marriage and Murder on a Dairy Farm

Elizabeth Brundage’s latest thriller is <em>All Things Cease to Appear</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Three New Musical Biopics Hit the Big Screen

Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Hank Williams get the movie treatment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Iggy Pop’s _Post Pop Depression_

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why the Rise in Food-Poisoning Reports Is Actually a Good Thing

Health officials are finding foodborne outbreaks faster than ever before

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### When Short-Fingered Vulgarians Win, Satire Loses

Did <em>Spy</em> prepare Trump for his candidacy?

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### A Kids' Toy That Teaches Coding

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician

The Democrat’s strategy will have to be modified for the general election

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Obama Will Get His Pick on the Supreme Court Eventually

Merrick Garland will be confirmed. Just not yet.

### U.S.

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

### President Obama and Misty Copeland Interview

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Rise and Fall of the Putin Propaganda Czar Who Met a Violent End

The marks of violence on the body of Mikhail Lesin have renewed suspicion that the reasons for his death lead back to his powerful associates in Moscow

[World](/section/world/)

### Putin's Wily Syria Tactics Pay Off

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (17 Mar 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Verbatim (17 Mar 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### 13 Questions With Shirin Ebadi

The Iranian human-rights lawyer and her loved ones have been harassed by their country’s government since she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (17 Mar 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### How Drones Are Getting Better at Avoiding Crashes

It’s a necessary step for the technology to go mainstream

[World](/section/world/)

### Big Money's Tiny Impact on the Presidential Campaign

[World](/section/world/)

### The NFL

A link between football and brain trauma

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (17 Mar 2016)

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