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# January 21, 2019 | Vol. 193 No. 2 January 21, 2019 |  

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Vol. 193 No. 2

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January 21st, 2019 | Vol. 193, No. 2 | U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa

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January 21, 2019

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U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Stop Treating _True Detective_ Like a Game

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### ‘On a Spiritual Level, We Are All Minorities.’ Chigozie Obioma on Fate and His New Epic

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Crossing the Afghan Wilderness in _99 Nights in Logar_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _The Upside_ Is Just Too Retrograde to Be Funny

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How _A Star Is Born_'s Music Hit the Sweet Spot

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### “You Can Only Tell So Many Dick Jokes.” Ken Jeong on Getting Serious in New Stand-Up Special

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### American Airlines’ Robert Crandall Remembers Herb Kelleher, the Soul of Southwest

Soul of Southwest

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Tarana Burke on What We Can Learn From Cyntoia Brown's Story

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Trump and Pelosi Are Locked in Their First Battle. Neither Can Afford to Lose

The first battle between President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi will shape the new balance of power in Washington

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The Shutdown Isn't Really About the Wall. It's About Trump's Future

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### House Democrats Get Ready to Fight Trump. And Each Other

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Doesn’t Like Attention. She’s About to Get a Ton of It.

Naomi Osaka is ready to become The new face of tennis

### U.S.

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

### The History of American Teacher Strikes—And Where Los Angeles Fits In

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The China Trade War Comes Home

[World](/section/world/)

### These Are the Biggest Geopolitical Risks of 2019

The most serious threats are unlikely to play out this year, but we are heading for serious longer-term trouble down the road


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