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# May 23, 2016 | Vol. 187 No. 19May 23, 2016 |  

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May 23rd, 2016 | Vol. 187, No. 19 | U.S.

Issue date

May 23, 2016

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U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthHistoryIdeasU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### In the Latest Issue (12 May 2016)

[Business](/section/business/)

### A New Look at Capitalism

[Business](/section/business/)

### How to Talk to Our Technology Is Parenting's Next Great Dilemma

[Business](/section/business/)

### Derailed

As the nation's infrastructure crumbles, Washington's transit chief bets on a new approach

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Game of Thrones_ Proves Death on TV Is Meaningless Now

Jon Snow is only the latest example of mortality's meaninglessness in pop culture

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Quick Talk With Jodie Foster

The two-time Oscar winner discusses her latest outing as a director, Money Monster, a thriller in which a disgruntled investor takes a financial-TV host hostage.

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Bamford's _Dynamite_ Is a Wild Ride

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: When Love Is the Law of the Land, Singletons Revolt In _The Lobster_

The film is a droll piece of work lashed with grim humor

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Broadway Shuffle

George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover Bring in 'da Noise (and 'da Funk) to a 95 - year - old musical

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Entrée the Bowl

### History

[History](/section/history/)

### Putting Pen to Paper

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### American Capitalism’s Great Crisis

How Wall Street is choking our economy and how to fix it

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Exclusive: Megyn Kelly Talks Fears, Courage and Donald Trump

'If you set the bar as fearlessness, you’re going to be sitting alone in your room alone, crying in your soup a lot' 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Edible Cutlery

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### We Have Become an Idiocracy

And it only took two-and-a-half centuries

### U.S.

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

### Baby Boomers Are Isolating Themselves as They Age

That’s bad—for everyone

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

### Redefining the Modern Dictionary

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

### What Schools Should Learn from Student Protests

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (12 May 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### A North Carolina Fight Could Reshape Civil Rights

[World](/section/world/)

### Dating Isn't Dead--and History Proves It

[World](/section/world/)

### Saudi Arabia’s Reform Plan Is Bold, Modern and Likely Doomed

The kingdom must end its deep dependence on oil revenue and build a dynamic 21st century economy

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (12 May 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (12 May 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Land Could Be Your Land--for Free

### Others

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