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# July 30, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 4 July 30, 2018 |  

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Vol. 192 No. 4

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Issue name

July 30th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 4 | U.S.

Issue date

July 30, 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/)

[Foreign Relations](/vault/subject/foreign-relations/)

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

[Europe](/vault/subject/europe/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Tech Insider Chamath Palihapitiya Wants to Disrupt Silicon Valley

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### A New Stephen King Show Proves His Scariest Villain Has Been There All Along

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again_ Is Both Atrocious and Amazing

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Blindspotting_  Takes a Hard Look at Race and Gentrification

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Nancy Barbato Sinatra Was the Steadying Force Behind the Voice

The steadying force behind the Voice

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How the First Amendment Became a Tool for Deregulation

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### NASA Could Have People Living on the Moon in 8 Years. And That's Just the Beginning

Facing skeptics, NASA plans a return trip, with a still greater voyage to follow

### U.S.

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

### Trump Wanted a Summit With Putin. He Got Way More Than He Bargained For

'Who do you believe?' It was a simple question, asked of President Trump by a seasoned reporter, but it sent a jolt through the assembled media at the press conference held at an ornate palace in Helsinki

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Haiti Gives the IMF a Fresh Lesson in the Value of Subsidies to the Poor

[World](/section/world/)

### The E.U. Looks to China to Shield Itself From the Fallout of Trump’s Trade War

[World](/section/world/)

### Vladimir Putin Set a Trap for Robert Mueller in His Press Conference with Donald Trump

Trump called it an "incredible offer." But Putin's plan to assist the Special Counsel pulls the probe onto territory he can control

[World](/section/world/)

### Ivan Duque is Colombia's Youngest President-Elect Ever. Now He Has to Fix the Divided Country

Iván Duque won his country's presidency by running against the peace deal he now has to fix


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