--- title: September 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 12 | U.S. description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/us/4941004/september-25th-2017-vol-190-no-12-u-s/ og:title: September 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 12 | U.S. og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/magazine/us/4941004/september-25th-2017-vol-190-no-12-u-s/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b26f458a2c2d205/6988ddaae76ad2325f62f23b/hurricane1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2363 og:image:height: 1329 og:image:alt: Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma Time Magazine Cover 170925 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: September 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 12 | U.S. twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b26f458a2c2d205/6988ddaae76ad2325f62f23b/hurricane1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # September 25, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 12September 25, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 12  Issue name September 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 12 | U.S. Issue date September 25, 2017 Location U.S. Related categories [Government](/vault/subject/government/) [Politics](/vault/subject/politics/) [Science](/vault/subject/science/) [Natural Disaster](/vault/subject/natural-disaster/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Equifax and the Perils of Password Protection ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Why Marriage Is Harder Than Ever-and Maybe Better Too [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Naughty Nineties Set the Stage for Our Reality-TV Presidency [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### When the Military Does Battle With Nature [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Ken Burns Takes on the Vietnam War Ken Burns takes on the cataclysm of Vietnam [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### My Father's Vietnam The casualties of a lost war didn't end with the fighting [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Fall's Heavy Hitters [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Celebrities: They’re Just Like Writers! These names will appear on your reading list this fall [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Celebrate Fall With These 6 Cookbooks Indulge in recipes like sourdough bread and pumpkin gnocchi [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Hillary Clinton Writes the First Draft of Her History ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Why Stephen Bannon Doesn't Scare Washington Anymore ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### The Angels of Irma A lot of smart people did a lot of things right to prevent a historic hurricane from doing historic damage [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Her Time The unparalleled career of TIME editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs [U.S.](/section/us/) ### 'Plus Size' Goes Out of Fashion [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Edith Windsor LGBT icon [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Kate Millett 'High priestess' of women's liberation [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Stock-Market Highs Pose Vexing Questions for the Soon-to-Be Retired [U.S.](/section/us/) ### How the Kindness of Strangers Is Helping Hurricane Victims Rebuild Their Lives [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Sally Quinn ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Back to the Wild [World](/section/world/) ### The Referendum Vote That Could Fracture Iraq [World](/section/world/) ### The Saga of Kenya's Disputed Election Is a Good-News Story [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (14 Sep 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### For the Record (14 Sep 2017) [World](/section/world/) ### This Just In (14 Sep 2017) ### Others ### ### ### ### ### September 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 12 | 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":"September 25th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 12 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/4941004/september-25th-2017-vol-190-no-12-u-s/"}]}]} ```