--- --- Back to the vault # November 2, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 18November 2, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 18  Issue name November 2nd, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 18 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific Issue date November 2, 2015 Location Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific Related categories [World](/vault/subject/world/) [Science](/vault/subject/science/) [Environment](/vault/subject/environment/) [Energy](/vault/subject/energy/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsWorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Travel Insurance Is No Longer Just for the Over-Prepared Aggregation is changing the business [Business](/section/business/) ### Why Some Restaurants Have Declared War on Tipping Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group will cease the practice by the end of 2016 ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Joanna Newsom's Deep Dive Reviewing the harpist’s new album ‘Divers’ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Carrie Underwood Returns to Her Roots on _Storyteller_ Reviewing the country star’s new album [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: Paul Murray's _The Mark and the Void_ What’s so funny about the financial crisis? A lot [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Renaissance Woman Carrie Brownstein Writes of Her Life in Rock Her new memoir is Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: _Becoming Nicole_ Shows a Family in Transition Identical twins in all but one way [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Quick Talk With Sarah Silverman The comedian stars in I Smile Back ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Daughter Dress Code You only get to make the rules for a little while [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Walmart’s Woes Suggest a Bumpy Road for the American and Global Economies The company is in a particularly tough spot, but it speaks to broader trends ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Joe Biden Decides to Sit Out the Race The Vice President says “the window…has closed” ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Meet the Real Sicarios Who Created a Blood Bath Across the Americas They raised drug murders to a new level of violence and organization [World](/section/world/) ### China's Other Women Under Mao, China promoted socialist equality for women, but the market-reform era has left many commodified in a country where mistress can be a career choice [World](/section/world/) ### Youtube Millionaires [World](/section/world/) ### Mammogram Guidance Gets an Overhaul--Again [World](/section/world/) ### Pop Chart (22 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### The Rise of Islamist Terror in Bangladesh [World](/section/world/) ### A Metal That's (Almost) Lighter Than Air [World](/section/world/) ### Presidential Pranksters The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has received over 1,200 presidential-candidate registrations this year, three times as many as in 2012\. Most of the applicants aren't serious--many aren't even human. But some are still winning, in their own silly ways. [World](/section/world/) ### Healthiest Halloween Candy [World](/section/world/) ### What Happens When Drugs Aren't Illegal? A leaked U.N. report recommending that countries decriminalize narcotics for personal use brought the war on drugs into the global spotlight, even though it was later shelved. Countries that have loosened drug restrictions can boast some successes. [World](/section/world/) ### Nonsense [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (22 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### Verbatim (22 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About ... (22 Oct 2015) ### Others ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### November 2nd, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 18 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific ```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":"November 2nd, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 18 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific","item":"https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/4083150/november-2nd-2015-vol-186-no-18-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific/"}]}]} ```