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# December 11, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 24December 11, 2017 |  
Vol. 190 No. 24

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Issue name

December 11th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 24 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific

Issue date

December 11, 2017

Location

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

Related categories

[Military](/vault/subject/military/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Loading Up on Stocks With Dividends Is Risky In an Aging Bull Market

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Golden Globe Winner _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ Stars a Retro Heroine for Modern Times

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Jeff Daniels’ Godless Is a Satisfying Twist on a Classic Genre

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Call Me By Your Name_ and _The Shape of Water_ Fearlessly Display Love

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Miguel Mixes Sensuality and Social Consciousness in New Album _War & Leisure_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### U2 Shows Off Hard-Won Experience

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### 5 Famous Cooks Share How to Make Vegetables Taste Great

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why Your Odds of Getting a Heart Transplant Are So Low

50 years after the landmark first surgery 

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Tina Brown Talks Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and the Future of Media

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How America Became So Divided

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Fighting Donald Trump Cost Jeff Flake His Job. But He's Not Going Quietly

A feud with the President may have cost Jeff Flake his Senate seat. But he's not done fighting for the soul of the GOP

### U.S.

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

### The New American Way of War

A growing reliance on elite forces is taking a toll on commandos--and the country

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### India's Culture War Stirs Up Trouble In Bollywood

[World](/section/world/)

### A Distracted Angela Merkel Is Bad News for the World

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About …

[World](/section/world/)

### North Korea's Year of Missile Milestones

North Korea launched a new Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Nov. 29 that Pyongyang claimed could hit any target in the U.S. It's just the most recent milestone in a year when the rogue nation has launched at least 20 ballistic missiles, including three ICBMs.


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