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# February 17, 2020 | Vol. 195 No. 6 February 17, 2020 |  

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Vol. 195 No. 6

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Issue name

February 17th, 2020 | Vol. 195, No. 6 | U.S.

Issue date

February 17, 2020

Location

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

Related categories

[World](/vault/subject/world/)

[Science](/vault/subject/science/)

[Health &amp; Medicine](/vault/subject/health-medicine/)

[Asia](/vault/subject/asia/)

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Walter Isaacson on How Book Editor Alice Mayhew Shaped Stories Like _All the President's Men_

Insiders&apos; edition

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### 'I Knew Inevitably It Would Betray You.' James Taylor on Avoiding the Trap of Celebrity

At 71, James Taylor looks back-- and settles in for an encore

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Birds of Prey_ Proves the Feminist Revolution in Franchise Films Is Going to Be an Uphill Battle

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Jenny Offill's _Weather_ Is a Doomsday Novel We All Can Relate to

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Syrian Documentary Filmmaker Waad al-Kateab Journeys Through Life and Loss in Oscar-Nominated _For Sama_

The Syrian documentary filmmaker on journeying through life and loss in her Oscar-nominated For Sama

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Early Detection Is Key to Combating the Spread of Coronavirus

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What Ebola Teaches Us About Controlling Coronavirus

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How the Coronavirus Epidemic Could Upend the Global Economy

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Forget Iowa. The Democrats Now Have Bigger 2020 Problems

Caucus confusion clouds the search for a nominee

### U.S.

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

### ‘I Need to Continue to Be Active.’ Why Americans Are Retiring Later Than Ever

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Derail Xi Jinping’s Dreams of a Chinese Century

The coronavirus outbreak presents the greatest threat yet to Xi Jinping&apos;s ambition for a Chinese century


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