--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: October 12th, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 14 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # October 12, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 14October 12, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 14  Issue name October 12th, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 14 | U.S. Issue date October 12, 2015 Location U.S. Related categories [Science](/vault/subject/science/) [Health & Medicine](/vault/subject/health-medicine/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentHealthPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### The Volkswagen Scandal Will Do Major Damage to Germany How the country will be affected [Business](/section/business/) ### Start-Ups Offer Handymen on Demand A new spate of websites and services specialize in all your fix-it needs ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The Art of the Boring Memoir Or how I learned to find drama in my life story [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Inside the Pop-Song Industrial Complex A new book, The Song Machine, shows how the industry really works [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Another Book About Wizarding Boarding School Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On Is Like Harry Potter Turned Inside-Out [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: Janet Jackson’s New Album _Unbreakable_ The singer preaches resilience in her ecstatic new songs [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### A Thrilling High-Wire Act in _The Walk_ With a genuflection for 9/11 [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Quick Talk With Justin Theroux The actor returns to The Leftovers [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Everybody Loves Phil Rosenthal The creator of Everybody Loves Raymond gets his own travel show [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Naomi Klein’s Chilling View of Warming in _This Changes Everything_ Another climate change movie ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### Why Doctors Are Rethinking Breast-Cancer Treatment Too much chemo. Too much radiation. And way too many mastectomies ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Inside Ben Carson’s Unlikely—and Uncommonly Spiritual—Campaign It’s not brain surgery [Politics](/section/politics/) ### John Boehner Exits and a New Fight for the GOP Begins A shift in political power is underway ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Bubble Trouble for Standardized Testing Why the SAT and the ACT are competing for students long before college [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Los Angeles Becomes 'Broad' City A billionaire art lover has turned an L.A. street into an outgrowth of his passion for collecting, building and meddling [U.S.](/section/us/) ### _Black Silent Majority_ and What We Can Learn From History’s Criminal Justice Reformers A new book looks at the roots of black incarceration rates [U.S.](/section/us/) ### 10 Questions With Rob Schenck The evangelical leader and anti-abortion activist explains his unorthodox stance on guns as a film, The Armor of Light, follows his crusade ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Putin Takes on Syria And makes Russia a global player again [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (1 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### The Smarter Screen [World](/section/world/) ### Would-Be Olympic Sports Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics revealed a shortlist for potential new additions to the Summer Games, which included baseball/softball and these four sports. The final decisions will come in August. [World](/section/world/) ### Pop Chart (1 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### Verbatim (1 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### On the Road With Pope Francis [World](/section/world/) ### Grownup Building Blocks ### Others ### ### ### ### ### October 12th, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 14 | U.S. ```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 12th, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 14 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/4057277/october-12th-2015-vol-186-no-14-u-s/"}]}]} ```