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# July 31, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 5 July 31, 2017 |  

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Vol. 190 No. 5

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Issue name

July 31st, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 5 | U.S.

Issue date

July 31, 2017

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[Politics](/vault/subject/politics/)

[North America](/vault/subject/north-america/)

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Ambitious and Harrowing, Christopher Nolan’s _Dunkirk_ Is a Masterpiece

I have not always enjoyed his previous films. Why Dunkirk is so different

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Christopher Nolan: _Dunkirk_ Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento

Director Christopher Nolan discusses his new film Dunkirk, which is already being hailed as one of the most important war movies ever made

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unfinished Novel

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Bateman's Stab at High Drama

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Spider-Man, Ranked

The latest one is a thrill--and a hit. But how does it stack up against the rest?

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Her Food, Her Self

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Steve Ballmer: 5 Facts About the U.S. Government That Blew My Mind

And could help improve the conversations we have about how the country should be

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Review: Do-Gooders in Gangland in Ryan Gattis' _Safe_

Ryan Gattis' new novel, Safe, pits two narrators against each other — both of them bad guys trying to be good

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Mr. President, I Demand You Do Your Duty and Insult Me. Please?

'He's insulted journalists I haven't even heard of, and I'm a journalist'

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside the Secret Plan to Stop Vladimir Putin’s U.S. Election Plot

The White House was prepared to call out the military to guard the vote from a Russian hack

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Why There Is Crying In Baseball, and Tennis, and Golf, and Soccer ...

### U.S.

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

### The GOP Faces a New Crossroads

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

### Remembering America's 'Angel of Death Row'

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

### Why the Death of Malls Is About More Than Shopping

As America's malls close down, more than stores are vanishing along with them

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

### 8 Questions With Al Gore

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Low-Caste Farmer's Son Taking High Office In India

[World](/section/world/)

### Acid Attacks Have Become a Gruesome Criminal Trend in the U.K.

On Thursday night, five people across London were attacked within the space of 90 minutes

[World](/section/world/)

### Winnie the Pooh and Homer Too

[World](/section/world/)

### Liu Xiaobo, China's Most Prominent Political Prisoner, Dies at 61

He was jailed in 2009 for calling for multiparty democracy 

[World](/section/world/)

### Can Tunisia Remain a Beacon of Democracy for the Arab World?

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (20 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (20 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (20 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (20 Jul 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (20 Jul 2017)

### Others

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