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# January 27, 2020 | Vol. 195 No. 2January 27, 2020 |  

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Vol. 195 No. 2

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Issue name

January 27th, 2020 | Vol. 195, No. 2 | U.S.

Issue date

January 27, 2020

Location

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America

Related categories

[Politics](/vault/subject/politics/)

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsWorld

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### NPR's Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past Through His Books

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Award Shows Are Dying. Is That Such a Bad Thing?

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### 'Brits Are Notoriously Prudish.' On Set With the Cast of Netflix's _Sex Education_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Awkwafina Takes the Asian-American Entertainment Renaissance to New Heights in _Nora From Queens_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Jeanine Cummins’ 'American Dirt' Is a Harrowing Tale of Immigration, Family and Memory

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Zora Neale Hurston's Short Stories Finally Get Their Due in a New Posthumous Collection

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### 'I've Seen Everything.' Author Isabel Allende on Why She Doesn't Fear Death and the Inspiration for Her New Novel

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### When It Comes to Some Medical Treatment, Researchers Find Less Is More

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### There Are Far Too Many 'Deaths of Despair' in the U.S. How Much Longer Will We Turn Our Backs on This Crisis?

'Deaths of despair' have sent life expectancy in the U.S. falling for three years in a row

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Complicated Truth About What U.S. Citizenship Means Today

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside Jared Kushner’s Unusual White House Role

The unusual power of Jared Kushner

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Senators Have to Be in Washington During the Impeachment Trial. That's a Problem for the Ones Running for President

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Why Iran's Regime Is Facing Renewed Protests After the Ukraine Airlines Plane Crash

[World](/section/world/)

### The Reason Fossil Fuel Companies Are Finally Reckoning With Climate Change

Can the oil-and-gas industry survive the climate-change fallout?


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