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# February 12, 2018 | Vol. 191 No. 5February 12, 2018 |  
Vol. 191 No. 5

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Issue name

February 12th, 2018 | Vol. 191, No. 5 | U.S.

Issue date

February 12, 2018

Location

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

Related categories

[World](/vault/subject/world/)

[Government](/vault/subject/government/)

[U.S. Presidents](/vault/subject/u-s-presidents/)

[World Leaders](/vault/subject/world-leaders/)

[Military](/vault/subject/military/)

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

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## Table of Contents

BusinessIdeasPoliticsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### What Happens When Amazon Takes on Health Care

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Lisa Halliday’s _Asymmetry_ Is All About A Lopsided Romance

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How 7 Widowed Fathers Overcame Their Fear That ‘The Wrong Parent Died’

After becoming single parents to young children

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children From Darkness

Maybe instead of anxiously trying to protect our children, our job is to simply support them

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How Donald Trump Is Sowing Distrust in American Justice

### U.S.

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

### Donald Trump Is Playing a Dangerous Game of Nuclear Poker

More Players. Looser rules. Everything at stake

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

### How This Photographer Documented Her Mother's Battle With Mental Illness on Instagram

Photographer Melissa Spitz gives new dimension to mental illness in images of her own parent

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### How North Korea Built a Nuclear Arsenal on the Ashes of the Soviet Union

Did former Soviet scientists help arm North Korea?

[World](/section/world/)

### Can Donald Trump Accept a Defeat In Afghanistan?

[World](/section/world/)

### Why Attendees Left Davos Feeling Optimistic About the Economy

[World](/section/world/)

### Zadie Smith’s _Feel Free_ Shows She’s a Renaissance Woman


February 12th, 2018 | Vol. 191, No. 5 | U.S.

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