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# May 21, 2018 | Vol. 191 No. 19 May 21, 2018 |  

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Vol. 191 No. 19

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May 21st, 2018 | Vol. 191, No. 19 | U.S.

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May 21, 2018

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Warren Buffett Speaks to CEOs Going Political

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### HBO’s _Fahrenheit 451_ Extinguishes What Made the Book Great

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Benedict Cumberbatch Soulfully Portrays a Fallen Aristocrat in _Patrick Melrose_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Disobedience_ Is Much More Than a Forbidden-Love Story

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Juliette Binoche Glows in Bittersweet _Let the Sunshine In_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Charlie Puth Finds a Mature New Sound on Sophomore Album _Voicenotes_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Francis Ford Coppola on Art, Immigration and Going to School with Donald Trump

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Former Israeli PM: The Iran Deal Was Flawed. But Trump's Decision Makes World 'More Uncertain'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Gabrielle Union: How We Can Fix Hollywood’s Representation Problem

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### It’ll Never Be the Right Time for Famous Sexual Predators to Make Their Comebacks

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Zora Neale Hurston’s Long-Unpublished _Barracoon_ Finds Its Place After Decades of Delay

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Are American Voters Acting Normal Again?

Tuesday's election results seem to indicate it

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### _Sex and the City_’s Cynthia Nixon Says She's a 'Candidate of This Time.' How the Actor Is Carving Her Role in Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How Talks with North Korea Convinced Trump to Scrap the Iran Deal

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Michael Cohen’s ‘Essential Consultants’ Business Is a Big Problem for Donald Trump

Millions went in, but for what?

### U.S.

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

### Can Bad Men Change? What It’s Like Inside Sex Offender Therapy

Three days in treatment with 16 convicted men

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Armenia’s Peaceful Protester Takes Power in a Bloodless Revolution

[World](/section/world/)

### A New Netflix Series Tells the Story of the Philippines' Drug War. But Its Critics Are Condemning _Amo_ as Propaganda

Thousands of suspected drug dealers and users have been killed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office


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