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# September 20, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 13 September 20, 2018 |  

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Vol. 192 No. 13

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Issue name

September 20th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 13 | International

Issue date

September 20, 2018

Location

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

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[Politics](/vault/subject/politics/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Whistleblower Christopher Wylie Is Seeking Redemption After Cambridge Analytica

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Kate Atkinson’s WWII Spy Drama Is Fall’s Must Read Novel

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Josh Groban Says Creating New Album Was Like ‘Exorcising a Demon’

The singer and actor is following up a long run on Broadway by keeping a foot in each camp, releasing a new original album, Bridges, and starring as Tony Jr. in Netflix's The Good Cop--both out on Sept. 21.

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Life Itself_ May Just Sap the Life Out of You

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### This Is What Zero-Waste Haute Cuisine Looks Like

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### _Morning Joe's_ Mika Brzezinski On Women’s Empowerment Post #MeToo

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Confirmation Is Now the Ultimate Test of Political Power in 2018

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation has become a parable of political power in 2018

### U.S.

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

### Survivors Used #MeToo to Speak Up. A Year Later, They're Still Fighting for Meaningful Change

#MeToo went viral one year ago, and now it's clear that just listening to women is not enough

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

### Massachusetts Suffered Its First Fatal Shark Attack in Decades. Here's How Common They Really Are in the U.S.

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

### How the Financial Crisis Undermined America’s Place Atop the Global Order

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

### The Problem With Hurricane Storm Categories

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### How Putin's Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team

To understand how Russia penetrated the 2016 campaign, look to the oligarchs

[World](/section/world/)

### Movie Star Fan Bingbing's Disappearance Raises Questions About the Chinese Justice System

China's biggest star hasn't been since in public since June

[World](/section/world/)

### Hungary’s Viktor Orban Widens the Division Between E.U. Liberals and Hard-Liners


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