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# April 11, 2016 | Vol. 187 No. 13 April 11, 2016 |  

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Vol. 187 No. 13

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Issue name

April 11th, 2016 | Vol. 187, No. 13 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific

Issue date

April 11, 2016

Location

Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

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

[Asia](/vault/subject/asia/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsWorld

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### What Voters Need to Know About the New Free Global Trade Debate

After decades of consensus, its value is being contested by the left and the right

[Business](/section/business/)

### Will Robots in the Workplace Destroy Our Future?

Grappling with the right role for automatons at work

[Business](/section/business/)

### Apple Vs. the FBI: Here's Who Really Lost

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _Everybody Wants Some!!_ Deserves a Third Exclamation Mark

Richard Linklater is back with a new comedy

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Sounding off on Linklater's Hit Parade

Richard Linklater is back with a new comedy

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Indie Drama _Krisha_ Maps a Wanderer's Return to the Family Fold

Trey Edward Shults's film is part character study, part family mystery, and part psychological horror story

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### A Fake Rothko and the Rise of Modern Fraud

A painting’s worth can be a matter of smoke, mirrors and marketing

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Mario Batali Remembers Jim Harrison

'I’ve followed Jim Harrison more than I would follow the Bible or Koran'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why More Companies Are Coming Out of the Political Closet

Increasingly, big corporations are opposing legislation they see as discriminatory

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Insult My Lovely Wife at Your Own Risk

And the nation’s

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside the FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton's E-Mail

FBI director Jim Comey first investigated the Clintons 20 years ago

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Why America’s Largest Voting Bloc Isn't Voting for Trump

The Republican frontrunner has a woman problem

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Will the GOP Try to Lose With Cruz?

Former critics are now rallying to support the candidate

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### China’s Chairman Builds a Cult of Personality

While growth in the economy slows, Xi Jinping follows in Mao’s footsteps—and some members of the Communist Party aren’t happy

[World](/section/world/)

### This Fragile Iraqi Dam Could Pose a Bigger Threat Than ISIS

TIME visits Mosul Dam, whose collapse could threaten a million lives or more in Iraq

[World](/section/world/)

### Ukraine’s Injured War Veterans and the Price of Independence

The painful reality of rehabilitation after nearly two years of conflict

[World](/section/world/)

### ISIS Loses on the Battlefield But Succeeds in Scaring the West

The terrorist group is making gains by attacking the ‘gray zone’

[World](/section/world/)

### Debunking Trump's Foreign Policy

He raises good questions, but gets the answers wrong

[World](/section/world/)

### Garry Shandling

Sensei of 'true' comedy


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