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# August 7, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 6August 7, 2017 |  

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How Charlize Theron Invents a New Kind of Badass in the Stylish _Atomic Blonde_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Full of Feral Grace, _Atomic Blonde_ Kicks You Where It Hurts

It hurts to see Charlize Theron take a punch. But oh, how good it feels to see her throw one!

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Darkness Under the Sun on USA's Gripping Drama _The Sinner_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Dude Nostalgia Done Right

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Tyler, the Creator Opens Up

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The First 'Mission-Driven' Companies

Today, corporations use social justice as branding. The idea came from their antithesis

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How to Ease Europe's Fears About the New U.S.-Russia Relationship

Before important allies drift away

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) Racism In Kids' Lit

Should parents abstain from reading offensive classics to their children?

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### My Autism Allows Me to See the World in a Different Way

An email conversation with author Naoki Higashida about living with little ability to speak

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Trump's Attacks Sow Chaos In Washington

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Jordan Spieth

The British Open

### U.S.

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

### As Congress Fights, Thousands Camp Out for Free Health Care

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

### The Art of the Hostage Deal

Inside President Trump's efforts to free Americans held captive abroad

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### What's Behind Shinzo Abe's Plummeting Popularity

[World](/section/world/)

### Qatar Settles In for a Long Standoff

[World](/section/world/)

### Liberal Democracy Is Eroding Right In Europe's Backyard

[World](/section/world/)

### Weird Things from the Blue

[World](/section/world/)

### Notre Dame Cathedral Is Crumbling. Who Will Help Save It?

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (27 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (27 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (27 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (27 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (27 Jul 2017)


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