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# February 5, 2018 | Vol. 191 No. 4February 5, 2018 |  

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Vol. 191 No. 4

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Issue name

February 5th, 2018 | Vol. 191, No. 4 | U.S.

Issue date

February 5, 2018

Location

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

Related categories

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

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

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

[North America](/vault/subject/north-america/)

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How Rap Became the Sound of the Mainstream

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Ann Curry Gets the Comeback She Deserves on _We’ll Meet Again_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Maze Runner: The Death Cure_ Runs Out of Steam Quickly

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Dakota Fanning Makes the Trek of a Lifetime in _Please Stand By_

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why GDP Is a Terrible Metric for Success and Wealth

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### These Books Offer Blueprints for the Resistance

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### When the Only Home You Know Becomes a Place You May Never See Again

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### No, All Those Strollers Aren't Your Imagination. More Women Are Having Children

Rise is particularly stark among single women

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Democrats Face Backlash From Base After Caving on Immigration

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Meet Tom Steyer, The Man Running a Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### What President Trump’s Tariff on Solar Panels Means for American Jobs

### U.S.

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

### States of Vulnerability

In several cross-country trips over four years, photographer Matt Black has documented communities on the brink, where poverty rates are high and hope flags, to capture the nation's deepening inequality

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

### How Diversity Training Infuriates Men and Fails Women

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

### Kate Bowler Talks About Her Cancer Diagnosis and Her Faith

The Duke professor talks about her new memoir and parenting with an incurable cancer diagnosis

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Donald Trump Is Turning Davos Into a Globalist Throwdown

[World](/section/world/)

### 'America No Longer Matters.' Davos Isn't Worried About President Trump

[World](/section/world/)

### What the Global Elite Can Learn From Donald Trump

[World](/section/world/)

### Turkey Threatens Its Alliance With Russia After Charging Into Syria

[World](/section/world/)

### Meet Hyon Song Wol, North Korea’s Pop Star Turned Diplomat

[World](/section/world/)

### Greece and Macedonia Are Fighting Over Who Gets to Use the Name ‘Macedonia’. Here’s Why

Tens of thousands of Greek protesters rallied in Thessaloniki on Jan. 21 against the use of "Macedonia" in the name of the neighboring nation officially known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). The demonstrations came as the two countries begin talks to resolve the long-standing dispute. Here's more.

[World](/section/world/)

### _Dirty Money_ Brings Ambitious Investigative Journalism to Netflix

[World](/section/world/)

### Myanmar’s Case Against Two Reuters Reporters Is a War on the Truth

Myanmar has tried to obscure atrocities by prosecuting the press. They’re not fooling anyone


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