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# August 6, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 5 August 6, 2018 |  

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August 6th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 5 | U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsWorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Local News Is a Vital Resource—But It's Disappearing Fast

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon Made the Buddy Comedy of Your Dreams

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Privilege Takes Center Stage in Broadway’s _Straight White Men_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Bloody Brilliance of Megan Abbott

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Michiko Kakutani Is Fighting for Truth in a Post-Truth Era

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Jonathan Gold Celebrated How Food Shaped Community

Epicurean Angeleno

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Antoine Fuqua Remembers the Storytelling Genius of Shinobu Hashimoto

Screen storyteller

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home

Returning home to a place I love more than I loathe

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Foreday in the Morning

Previously unpublished work from Southern poets 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What Democrats Don’t Get About the South

What Democrats don't get about the south

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Memories From the South: The Church of SEC Football

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Memories From the South: In Elvis We Trust

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Memories From the South: Doe’s Eat Place

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The South Could Mend America’s Divide—If It Reckons With Its Past

A chance to reshape American life

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Memories From the South: Jogging Through Paynes Prairie

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why the Mississippi Remains the South’s Most Vital Artery

The Mississippi remains the South's most vital artery

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Memories From the South: Growing Up in a ‘Sundown Town’

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How Southern Food Has Finally Embraced Its Multicultural Soul

Southern food has finally embraced its multicultural soul

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### An Orchard at the Bottom of a Hill

Previously unpublished work from Southern poets 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Memories From the South: Waters of the Bayou

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Stacey Abrams Could Become America's First Black Female Governor—If She Can Turn Georgia Blue

Can Stacey Abrams make history?

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Cuba Moves Away From its Communist Past and Toward a Modern Future

[World](/section/world/)

### Israel’s Netanyahu Takes a Page From the Authoritarian Playbook

[World](/section/world/)

### Trump Has Made Iran Public Enemy No.1\. How Far Will He Go?

As America's long-running regional contest with Iran heats up, Trump and Tehran are fueling the fire with rhetoric, money and guns

[World](/section/world/)

### Europe Made Billions from Tourists. Now It’s Turning Them Away

As vacationers threaten to turn europe into a theme park, the continent is pushing back

### Others

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