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# June 16, 2014 | Vol. 183 No. 23 June 16, 2014 |  

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Issue name

June 16th, 2014 | Vol. 183, No. 23 | U.S.

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June 16, 2014

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Jenny Slate: Good Humor Woman

In Obvious Child, a film about abortion, the comedian gets serious

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Topic of Cancer

Teens cope lovingly in a faithful, lustrous "Fault in Our Stars"

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Space Invaders, Coming Soon to Your Multiplex

Which big-screen alien is for you?

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Raising the Bars on _Orange Is the New Black_

Prison is a small world, but this drama is getting bigger

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Hardest-Working Man in Rock.

Why Damon Albarn can’t stop collaborating

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### 99¢ Loyalty

One writer’s dramatic account of surviving the feud between Amazon and Hachette

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The Myth of Inevitability

Nothing is certain for Hillary Clinton in 2016

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Brian Schweitzer, Hopeful Hillary Contender

The Montana Governor hopes to pose a serious challenge to Clinton’s nomination

### U.S.

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

### No Soldier Left Behind

 The return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from captivity is no simple feel-good story. That makes it an ideal symbol for the end of the Afghanistan war

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

### One Ohio City’s Growth Strategy? Immigrants

Dayton puts out the welcome mats

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

### The Green Revolution Is Here

Clean power was on the rise in the U.S., even before President Obama’s carbon rules aimed to accelerate the trend

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Winding Road to D-Day

FDR’s patient diplomacy in 1942 and 1943 made Operation Overlord possible in 1944

[World](/section/world/)

### 10 Questions With Jack Devine

The former CIA Deputy Director on Snowden, recruiting traitors and shoe phones

[World](/section/world/)

### Conversation (5 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Vapor Trail

Tracking the conflicting claims about e-cigarette safety

[World](/section/world/)

### Unhappy Meals

Healthier school-lunch standards are again under attack

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (5 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Culture (5 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (5 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### World (5 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Briefing (5 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Ann B. Davis

America's favorite housekeeper


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