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# April 25, 2016 | Vol. 187 No. 15 April 25, 2016 |  

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April 25th, 2016 | Vol. 187, No. 15 | U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Exclusive: Janet Yellen Talks Transforming the Fed

In a TIME-exclusive interview, Yellen says she is focusing on Main Street not Wall Street and dusting off the Fed's mandate to regulate

[Business](/section/business/)

### Can Ride Apps Really Solve America's Traffic Woes?

Carpooling research could shape the commute of the future

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### A New Book Asks, ‘Are You There, Allah? It’s Me, Cindy’

<em>It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel</em> tells a story of growing up Muslim in America

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Quick Talk With Hugh Laurie

The actor stars in <em>The Night Manager</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Biggest New Sounds on Broadway

From <em>Shuffle Along</em> to <em>She Loves Me</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Jon Favreau’s _Jungle Book_ Is a Wild Tale for a Digital Age

CGI animals talk, sing, saunter, slink and slither

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Pop's Biggest Stars Are Reviving the Album by Reinventing It

Surprise releases by the likes of Beyoncé and Rihanna have changed the music industry

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The United States of Insolvency

$13,903,107,629,266\. Can the nation afford this much debt? James Grant offers his view

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How Things Get Messy When I Take My Boss Act Home

What do my kids think I do for a living? Fire people

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How America Got Hooked on Guns

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### What Today's Democrats Can Learn from Bill Clinton's Crime and Welfare-Reform Bills

Hillary Clinton’s campaign could use a strong dose of politically incorrect truth telling

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The Billionaire and the Bigots

How Donald Trump’s campaign brought white nationalists out of the shadows

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Why a Woman May Not Be on the Front of the $10 Bill

America rallied around the idea of a woman for the $10 bill. But what if Hamilton fans stick her on the back?

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The GOP’s Plan to Look Past the Presidency—and Win Congress

Senate and House seats are up for grabs

### U.S.

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

### In the Latest Issue (14 Apr 2016)

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

### A Debt We All Must Pay

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (14 Apr 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Self-Filling Water Bottle

It isn't commercially available yet, but the solar-powered Fontus is making a splash on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Here's how it works.

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (14 Apr 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Trump and Sanders Have Tapped Into a Dangerous--and Wrong--Anti-Trade Sentiment

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (14 Apr 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### 4 Apps to Help You Give Back

[World](/section/world/)

### Nepal’s Man-Made Disaster

A year after a devastating quake, politics has kept the country in ruins

[World](/section/world/)

### Rise of the 'Plyscrapers'

Wood is making a comeback as a building material with the development of engineered timber, an eco-friendly alternative used in "plyscrapers" around the world.

### Others

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