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Repeating this kind of success [Detroit: America’s Emerging Market](http://time.com/3204249/detroit-americas-emerging-market/ "undefined") How the city can teach us to reinvest the rest of the U.S. economy [A Battle of Two Veterans](http://time.com/3204263/a-battle-of-two-veterans/ "undefined") In an edgy political year, a former Marine tests a longtime Democratic pol for a seat near Boston [Obama Goes to War (With Congress)](http://time.com/3204297/obama-goes-to-war-with-congress/ "undefined") The President began bombing ISIS on his own, but only Congress can start a war [Scotland’s Disunited Kingdom](http://time.com/3204285/scotlands-disunited-kingdom/ "undefined") Voters face a referendum on independence from Britain [Apps Charging for Free Services Get Savvy—and Sleazy](http://time.com/3204282/apps-charging-for-free-services-get-savvy-and-sleazy/ "undefined") Booking a reservation or finding a parking spot just got a whole lot easier and more expensive [Ferguson’s Next Chapter](http://time.com/3204262/fergusons-next-chapter/ "undefined") Can a town turn a tragic moment into a lasting movement? [Tablets for Tots](http://time.com/3204264/tablets-for-tots/ "undefined") Meet the uber-tablet made specially for kids and families [Stand Up for Your Health](http://time.com/3204289/stand-up-for-your-health/ "undefined") All-day sitting hurts the body. Here’s a novel way to undo the damage [Patton Oswalt: Why I Quit Twitter—And Will Again](http://time.com/3194138/patton-oswalt-quit-twitter-fast-summer/ "undefined") Maybe the next fashionable rebellion is to become “unlinked”—only reachable face-to-face [Wall Street Goes Green](http://time.com/3204258/wall-street-goes-green/ "undefined") Why is solar booming? Finance [Banker Who Predicted 2008 Meltdown Is Worried Again](http://time.com/3204286/banker-who-predicted-2008-meltdown-is-worried-again/ "undefined") Raghuram Rajan is seeing troubling sings [Spinning Classes: Coming Soon to a Living Room Near You](http://time.com/3204293/spinning-classes-coming-soon-to-a-living-room-near-you/ "undefined") How Peloton makes it easy—and fun—to cycle at home [Jessica Chastain’s Triple Play](http://time.com/3204270/jessica-chastains-triple-play/ "undefined") One of the year’s buzzier films is being released in three different versions [In _Transparent_, a Breasted Development](http://time.com/3204275/transparent-a-breasted-development/ "undefined") Jeffrey Tambor explores a radical new phase of life— and the series itself breaks away from TV tradition [XKCD: When Physics Is Funny](http://time.com/3204271/xkcd-when-physics-is-funny/ "undefined") The man behind the web’s smartest comics takes his science project where it’s never been before: paper [The Kids are Alright in _This Is Our Youth_](http://time.com/3204273/the-kids-are-alright-in-this-is-our-youth/ "undefined") Michael Cera isn’t the only stage rookie in the new Broadway play [Henri Matisse Cuts Loose](http://time.com/3204244/henri-matisse-cuts-loose/ "undefined") In old age, French master made some of his most vibrant work, the cut-paper collages coming to Manhattan [Maroon 5 Falls Off the Bandwagon](http://time.com/3204267/maroon-5-falls-off-the-bandwagon/ "undefined") The group hasn’t been a rock outfit for many years—and that’s just fine with Adam Levine [Life Lessons From One of the World’s Oldest Men](http://time.com/3148628/worlds-oldest-people-life-lessons/ "undefined") Charlie White, who died at 109, was able to separate the things he could control from the things that he could not [Quake Alert](http://time.com/3204283/quake-alert/ "undefined") In California, a brief heads-up [Milestones](http://time.com/3204246/milestones/ "undefined") [Richard Attenborough](http://time.com/3204284/richard-attenborough/ "undefined") Actor and director [Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol](http://time.com/3204300/dr-kent-brantly-and-nancy-writebol/ "undefined") American Ebola patients [All’s Fair in Love and …](http://time.com/3204288/alls-fair-in-love-and/ "undefined") [World](http://time.com/3204272/world/ "undefined") [Briefing](http://time.com/3204294/briefing/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3206035/in-the-latest-issue-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3206035/in-the-latest-issue-4/"},"headline":"In The Latest Issue (28 Aug 2014)","datePublished":"2014-08-28T11:48:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T20:04:24.474Z","description":"The Answers Issue For the rest of the Answers Issue, visit time.com/answers. 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