--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: August 6th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 5 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # August 6, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 5August 6, 2018 | Vol. 192 No. 5  Issue name August 6th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 5 | U.S. Issue date August 6, 2018 Location U.S. Related categories [Government](/vault/subject/government/) [Local](/vault/subject/local/) [Society](/vault/subject/society/) [Politics](/vault/subject/politics/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## 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Home Returning home to a place I love more than I loathe [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Foreday in the Morning Previously unpublished work from Southern poets [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### What Democrats Don’t Get About the South What Democrats don't get about the south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 ### ### ### ### ### August 6th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 5 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"August 6th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 5 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5349498/august-6th-2018-vol-192-no-5-u-s/"}]}]} ```