--- --- Back to the vault # October 21, 2019 | Vol. 194 No. 16October 21, 2019 | Vol. 194 No. 16  Issue name October 21st, 2019 | Vol. 194, No. 16 | U.S. Issue date October 21, 2019 Location U.S. Related categories [Military](/vault/subject/military/) [Afghanistan/Iraq](/vault/subject/afghanistaniraq/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S. ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Gemini Man_ Director Ang Lee Wants to Change the Way We See Movies [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _The Things They Carried_ Author Tim O'Brien Returns to Contemplate Fatherhood and America at War [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Kara Walker Breaks Down the Influences Behind Her Bold New Work at the Tate Modern 'Fons Americanus,' a 13-meter-high fountain addresses the brutal history of slavery and empire [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Jessica Lange on Her Photographic Tribute to Her Midwestern Roots in _Highway 61_ The two-time Oscar winner, also an accomplished photographer, has a new book that takes as its subject life along a scenic route in her birthplace of northern Minnesota [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### A Newly Translated Novel Charts the Dizzying Transformation of an Independent Oman [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### No Other Comedy Captures the Spirit of 2019 Like _Parasite_ [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Succession_’s Brian Cox on Playing Logan Roy and What to Expect in the Season Finale The Scottish actor on playing the world’s worst people and why Succession is the perfect show for our “ludicrous” times. ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Why Bringing Back the Draft Could Stop America’s Forever Wars The way to end America's forever wars is to bring back the draft [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Stewart Copeland Remembers 'Rock God' Ginger Baker Rock god [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Diversity Has Become a Booming Business. So Where Are the Results? [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Trump Loves the Military. But He Doesn’t Like Using It An impulsive President shows no inclination to use the forces he celebrates ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### The Impeachment Fight Will Transform State and Local Races in 2020 [Politics](/section/politics/) ### In Donald Trump’s America, Rep. Justin Amash Sets an Independent Course [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Survivors of Sexual Assault Are Voters Too. So Why Aren't the Presidential Candidates Paying Attention to Them? ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### Why China Has the NBA in a Full-Court Press on Free Speech ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### ‘I Don’t Have Seven Arms to Hug Them All.' A Year After Their Father's Death in Afghanistan, a Mother and Her Children Struggle to Move on One year after a father's death in Afghanistan, a mother and her children struggle to move on [U.S.](/section/us/) ### How A.G. Sulzberger Is Leading the New York _Times_ Into the Future By embracing the future, a young publisher is helping save more than the family business October 21st, 2019 | Vol. 194, No. 16 | 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":"October 21st, 2019 | Vol. 194, No. 16 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5696939/october-21st-2019-vol-194-no-16-u-s/"}]}]} ```