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# August 29, 2016 | Vol. 188 No. 8 August 29, 2016 |  

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Vol. 188 No. 8

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August 29th, 2016 | Vol. 188, No. 8 | U.S.

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August 29, 2016

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet

They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse

[Business](/section/business/)

### In the Latest Issue (18 Aug 2016)

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Hell or High Water_ Floats on Craggy Jeff Bridges

The performances are quietly terrific 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Raucous _War Dogs_ Has Bark and Bite

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller are two regular dudes turned arms dealers

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### However You Say Tomato, 'Tis the Season to Eat Them

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why Older People Shouldn't Vote — and Other Ideas Unpopular With My Parents

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### We Need a New Grand Bargain With Russia

Here’s a 4-point plan

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### James Baldwin and the Trap Of Our History

'We must confront the past if we are all to be truly free'

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Hillary Clinton Finds Her Zone of Caution and Control

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Unpacking the Court: Is Eight Enough?

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Cracks In the Obamacare Crystal Ball

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Fantastic Four: A Quartet of Stars Made the Rio Olympics a Celebration

### U.S.

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

### Post-Traumatic Marijuana: Some Military Veterans Are Embracing the Drug as Scientists Scramble to Study its Effects

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Hate That Rules Online

[World](/section/world/)

### Libya Turns the Tide: Militias Finally Take on ISIS in the Chaos of North Africa

[World](/section/world/)

### Why More Americans Are Becoming Activists (18 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (18 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (18 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Search for the Perfect Chair

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (18 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Quick Talk With Miles Teller

The actor, 29, stars in War Dogs, a comedic drama about two real-life stoners from Miami, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who exploited a loophole in government contracting practices to become arms dealers in 2007.

[World](/section/world/)

### Why Brexit Could Take Longer Than Expected

[World](/section/world/)

### Why Body-Cam Footage Stays Unseen

[World](/section/world/)

### Werner Herzog Ponders the Poetry of the Internet

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (18 Aug 2016)

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