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# May 29, 2017 | Vol. 189 No. 20 May 29, 2017 |  

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Vol. 189 No. 20

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Issue name

May 29th, 2017 | Vol. 189, No. 20 | U.S.

Issue date

May 29, 2017

Location

U.S.

Related categories

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

[Government](/vault/subject/government/)

[U.S. Presidents](/vault/subject/u-s-presidents/)

[World Leaders](/vault/subject/world-leaders/)

[Foreign Relations](/vault/subject/foreign-relations/)

[Technology](/vault/subject/technology/)

[Politics](/vault/subject/politics/)

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## Table of Contents

HistoryIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### History

[History](/section/history/)

### The Birth of the U.S. Police Force

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why the Census Matters Now More Than Ever

As its director resigned, Congress cut its budget and the President questions facts

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The New Conspicuous Consumption

A review of <em>The Sum of Small Things</em> by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Stop Looking for Your Soul Mate and Try This Instead

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Washington AG: President Trump’s Aggression Will Be His Undoing

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why Your Portfolio Should Be Stocked With Global Shares

And not just stocks from the United States

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Trump's Loyalty Test

How the President's actions are straining government institutions and the people who work for them

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### President Trump Goes Global

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Special Counsel Named In Russia Probe

### U.S.

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

### Why Your Power Company Wants to Sell You More Than Electricity

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

### The Jobs That Weren't Saved

A mile from the Carrier plant President Trump helped keep open, another factory is moving to Mexico and putting 300 Americans out of work

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

### Sentencing Reversal Angers Both Sides

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Why a Global Cyber Crisis Stalled-This Time

[World](/section/world/)

### Indefatigable Merkel Complicates Europe's Need to Reform

[World](/section/world/)

### Sweden's Solar Egg Sauna

[World](/section/world/)

### Big Plans for China's New Silk Road

[World](/section/world/)

### Best Excuses for Sleeping on the Job

Nobody could blame Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe (below, left) for repeatedly drifting off during events, but on May 11 his spokesman said the dictator was in fact merely resting his eyes. Here, other excuses politicians have given for nodding off.

[World](/section/world/)

### America's Buzziest Baby Names

The Social Security Administration published its list of 2016's top baby names. Here, the ones that increased the most compared with 2015.

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (18 May 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (18 May 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (18 May 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (18 May 2017)

### Others

[The YouTube Parents Who are Turning Family Moments into Big BucksParents are putting their kids’ lives on YouTube and making a living out of having fun. But this family business has a downside](/4783215/growing-up-in-public/)


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