--- --- Back to the vault # November 2, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 18November 2, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 18  Issue name November 2nd, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 18 | U.S. Issue date November 2, 2015 Location U.S. Related categories [Science](/vault/subject/science/) [Environment](/vault/subject/environment/) [Energy](/vault/subject/energy/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsScienceWorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Why Some Restaurants Have Declared War on Tipping Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group will cease the practice by the end of 2016 [Business](/section/business/) ### Travel Insurance Is No Longer Just for the Over-Prepared Aggregation is changing the business ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Women Flip the Script on Hollywood Sandra Bullock and her A-list sisters are hunting down the best new roles—the ones written for men [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Joanna Newsom's Deep Dive Reviewing the harpist’s new album ‘Divers’ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Carrie Underwood Returns to Her Roots on _Storyteller_ Reviewing the country star’s new album [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: Paul Murray's _The Mark and the Void_ What’s so funny about the financial crisis? A lot [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Renaissance Woman Carrie Brownstein Writes of Her Life in Rock Her new memoir is Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: _Becoming Nicole_ Shows a Family in Transition Identical twins in all but one way [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Quick Talk With Sarah Silverman The comedian stars in I Smile Back ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Walmart’s Woes Suggest a Bumpy Road for the American and Global Economies The company is in a particularly tough spot, but it speaks to broader trends [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Daughter Dress Code You only get to make the rules for a little while ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Joe Biden Decides to Sit Out the Race The Vice President says “the window…has closed” ### Science [Science](/section/science/) ### Inside the Quest for Fusion, Clean Energy’s Holy Grail Start-ups are behind the new push ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Pop Chart (22 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### The Rise of Islamist Terror in Bangladesh [World](/section/world/) ### A Metal That's (Almost) Lighter Than Air [World](/section/world/) ### Mammogram Guidance Gets an Overhaul--Again [World](/section/world/) ### Presidential Pranksters The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has received over 1,200 presidential-candidate registrations this year, three times as many as in 2012\. Most of the applicants aren't serious--many aren't even human. But some are still winning, in their own silly ways. [World](/section/world/) ### Youtube Millionaires [World](/section/world/) ### Healthiest Halloween Candy [World](/section/world/) ### What Happens When Drugs Aren't Illegal? A leaked U.N. report recommending that countries decriminalize narcotics for personal use brought the war on drugs into the global spotlight, even though it was later shelved. Countries that have loosened drug restrictions can boast some successes. [World](/section/world/) ### Nonsense [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (22 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### Verbatim (22 Oct 2015) [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About ... (22 Oct 2015) ### Others ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### November 2nd, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 18 | 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":"November 2nd, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 18 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/4082927/november-2nd-2015-vol-186-no-18-u-s/"}]}]} ```