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# November 27, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 22 November 27, 2017 |  

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November 27th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 22 | U.S.

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November 27, 2017

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsWorld

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### The 25 Best Inventions of 2017

From guilt-free Halo Top ice cream to Michelin's airless tires

[Business](/section/business/)

### Why Self-Driving Cars Might Not Lead to a Huge Drop In Fuel Consumption

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Phantom Thread_ Is Shrouded in Mystery as Daniel Day-Lewis' Final Act

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Allison Janney’s New Favorite Co-Star is a Bird

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Why James and Dave Franco Waited Their Whole Lives To Make a Movie Together

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Downsizing's Hong Chau Gets Her Big Break in Miniature

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Two New Last Jedi Characters Help the _Star Wars_ Galaxy Look More Like Our Own

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How _Wonder_ Takes on Being Different in an Indifferent World

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Gary Oldman on Winston Churchill, Populism and Harvey Weinstein Allegations

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Dignity, Death and America's Crisis In Elder Care

[Health](/section/health/)

### An 87-Year-Old Nun Said She Was Raped in Her Nursing Home. Here’s Why She Couldn't Sue

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What Makes a Genius? The World's Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common

Franklin, Einstein, Jobs, da Vinci. How history's greatest thinkers broke with tradition and solved problems nobody else could see.

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Cruel Math of Finding a Nursing Home for My Dad

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### My Uncle’s Alzheimer’s Battle Inspired Me to Disrupt Healthcare

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### At the NRA’s TV Network, Guns Are a Weapon in the Culture Wars

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Aly Raisman Opens Up About Sexual Abuse by USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Dale Earnhardt Jr. Is Going Out on His Own Terms

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Saudi Crown Prince's Plot to Reshape the Middle East Backfires

[World](/section/world/)

### It's the Beginning of the End for Zimbabwe's Dictator Robert Mugabe

[World](/section/world/)

### Theresa May's Britain Is Headed for a Brexit Train Wreck


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