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# November 4, 2019 | Vol. 194 No. 18November 4, 2019 |  

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsWorldOthers

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Jojo Rabbit_ Is a Tender Black Comedy About Dark Times

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Mrs. Fletcher_ Fills the Silence of the Empty Nest

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Stop Me if You've Heard This One: A Robot and a Team of Irish Scientists Walk Into a Senior Living Home

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why It's Time to Take Electrified Medicine Seriously

[Health](/section/health/)

### A New Generation of Activist Doctors Is Fighting for Medicare for All

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Gene-Editing Revolution Is Already Here

[Health](/section/health/)

### Where You Live Should Not Determine Your Health Care

[Health](/section/health/)

### AI and Health Care Are Made for Each Other

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Price of Insulin Has Soared. These Biohackers Have a Plan to Fix It

[Health](/section/health/)

### Human Health Is in the Hands of Bacteria

[Health](/section/health/)

### He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care

As the first African-American face-transplant recipient, here's how Robert Chelsea may change the health care system forever

[Health](/section/health/)

### Community Health Workers Are Vital; Governments Should Be Paying Them

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### John Lewis: What Made Elijah Cummings a Leader Among Leaders

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Director of the NIH Lays Out His Vision of the Future of Medical Science

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Angelina Jolie: Medical Advances in Women's Health Are Important. But They're Only Part of the Picture

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### American Women Are Dying. To Save Them, We Need to Depoliticize Women's Health Care

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Big Data Can Improve the Health of the World’s Most Vulnerable: Mothers and Children

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### To Get Perspective on America's Broken Health Care System, Talk to a British Doctor

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The Impeachment Inquiry Is Draining the White House’s Power

The threat of impeachment is constraining President Trump's power in surprising ways. As defiant witnesses provide damning testimony in the House inquiry, Republicans are increasingly seeking shelter from unrelated scandals. The result has driven increasingly erratic behavior by Trump

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Chile's Protest Reflect Our Unequal Times

### Others

[Why All Your Favorite Instagram Chefs Are Whipping Up Cookbooks](/5709378/instagram-food-influencers-cookbooks/)


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