--- --- Back to the vault # October 10, 2019 | Vol. 194 No. 16October 10, 2019 | Vol. 194 No. 16  Issue name October 10th, 2019 | Vol. 194, No. 16 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South America, South Pacific Issue date October 10, 2019 Location Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, South America Related categories [Music](/vault/subject/music/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S. ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _The Things They Carried_ Author Tim O'Brien Returns to Contemplate Fatherhood and America at War [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Gemini Man_ Director Ang Lee Wants to Change the Way We See Movies [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### A Newly Translated Novel Charts the Dizzying Transformation of an Independent Oman [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### No Other Comedy Captures the Spirit of 2019 Like _Parasite_ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Kara Walker Breaks Down the Influences Behind Her Bold New Work at the Tate Modern 'Fons Americanus,' a 13-meter-high fountain addresses the brutal history of slavery and empire [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Jessica Lange on Her Photographic Tribute to Her Midwestern Roots in _Highway 61_ The two-time Oscar winner, also an accomplished photographer, has a new book that takes as its subject life along a scenic route in her birthplace of northern Minnesota ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Trump Loves the Military. But He Doesn’t Like Using It An impulsive President shows no inclination to use the forces he celebrates [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Diversity Has Become a Booming Business. So Where Are the Results? [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Stewart Copeland Remembers 'Rock God' Ginger Baker Rock god [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Why Bringing Back the Draft Could Stop America’s Forever Wars The way to end America's forever wars is to bring back the draft ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### The Impeachment Fight Will Transform State and Local Races in 2020 [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Survivors of Sexual Assault Are Voters Too. So Why Aren't the Presidential Candidates Paying Attention to Them? [Politics](/section/politics/) ### In Donald Trump’s America, Rep. Justin Amash Sets an Independent Course ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### Why China Has the NBA in a Full-Court Press on Free Speech ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### How A.G. Sulzberger Is Leading the New York _Times_ Into the Future By embracing the future, a young publisher is helping save more than the family business [U.S.](/section/us/) ### ‘I Don’t Have Seven Arms to Hug Them All.' A Year After Their Father's Death in Afghanistan, a Mother and Her Children Struggle to Move on One year after a father's death in Afghanistan, a mother and her children struggle to move on October 10th, 2019 | Vol. 194, No. 16 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South America, 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":"October 10th, 2019 | Vol. 194, No. 16 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South America, South Pacific","item":"https://time.com/magazine/south-pacific/5697098/october-10th-2019-vol-194-no-16-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-america-south-pacific/"}]}]} ```